Royal College of Surgeons Archives

29 September 2023

Cheshire and Merseyside ICS sign for region-wide AI deal

Nine acute trusts in the Cheshire and Merseyside region are to benefit from a deal signed with C2-Ai, to expand

24 April 2019

VR surgical simulator first to receive Royal College accreditation

It’s the first simulation with HapticVR to receive CPD points and will cover the Fundamental Surgery total hip replacement training

18 July 2018

NHS hospitals accused of being ‘stubbornly attached’ to fax machines

FOI requests made by the Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) show that NHS hospital trusts in England own a total

14 June 2016

Radiology transformation through collaboration

Ireland’s National Radiology Quality Improvement Programme used the Conserus Workflow Intelligence solution to drive quality improvement against national guidelines; and

25 February 2016

EPR implementation led to ‘catastrophic loss of confidence’

Problems with the introduction of the Epic electronic patient record at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust led to a

14 June 2013

Surgeons to be ‘named and shamed’

Doctors who opt out of disclosing their performance data should be “named and shamed”, the health secretary has said.

30 July 2009

Surgical data reduces mortality

A study has revealed that since surgeons started publishing data on outcomes for people undergoing heart operations, mortality rates have

18 May 2009

Simulator trains surgeons to be more efficient

Danish research has found that using simulators to train surgeons can make them twice as quick and more precise when

3 March 2009

Coroners Bill protest escalates

Eight healthcare organisations have called for medical records to be excluded from the data-sharing provisions of the Coroners and Justice

27 June 2008

Tories promise NHS information revolution

The Conservative Party has promised an “information revolution” in the NHS with a focus on health outcomes.