Key hole knee operations are no better than painkillers, says leading surgeon
Many knee operations conducted by keyhole surgery are no more effective than painkillers, according to a leading surgeon. Professor Andrew Carr said the success of such procedures was often down to the...
View Article“Lack of consistent care for patients undergoing emergency bowel surgery”
A lack of consistent care for patients undergoing high-risk emergency bowel surgery may be negatively affecting patient outcomes and placing major strain on scarce NHS resources, a report claims. The...
View ArticleBrexit will make the NHS safer, president of the RCS claims
Britain’s decision to leave the European Union will make patients safer by allowing the NHS to crack down on poor English skills among staff, the country’s top surgeon has said. Clare Marx, President...
View ArticleSurgeons with above average patient death rates unlikely to be identified by...
Judging surgical performance within an ‘expected range’ will not lead to the identification of inadequate surgeons, research suggests. Publishing the patient death rates of individual surgeons in...
View ArticleSurgeons may not be Machiavellian but there’s proof they’re a little vain
Are you narcissistic, or psychopathic? Neither, are you sure? Would your colleagues back you up on that one… Well, some clever bods decided to research the stereotypes in medicine. They assessed the...
View ArticlePatients have lower 30-day mortality rates under female surgeons, study finds
Patients treated by female surgeons had a small but statistically significant decrease in 30-day mortality compared with those treated by male surgeons. That’s the finding of a new study in the BMJ,...
View ArticleSurgeons are putting patients’ lives in danger due to “culture of...
Trainee surgeons are being assaulted during operations for raising safety concerns as part of an ‘endemic culture of bullying’ that causes patient deaths, the professions leadership has warned. The...
View Article“Surgical teams could carry out more ops if they stopped wasting two hours a...
NHS hospitals could carry out 280,000 more non-emergency operations a year by organising operating theatre schedules better, a new study suggests. The research, which looked at data from 2016, found...
View ArticleSurgeon admits branding his initials on the livers of two patients during...
A surgeon has admitted marking his initials on the livers of two patients during transplant operations. Consultant Simon Bramhall, 53, pleaded guilty to a charge of assault by beating at Birmingham...
View ArticleMore than half of female surgeons have experienced workplace discrimination
More than half of female surgeons have faced or witnessed discrimination in the workplace, a survey suggests. Orthopaedics was seen as the most sexist of all the surgical specialties, the responses...
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