The Society wishes to improve information, which has become very important in a rapidly changing world. Surgeons wish to know what is happening in the Whitehall and in other centres, trainees wish to know about courses and jobs, allied healthcare professionals need to know what is the future of the speciality.
Furthermore, the Society feels that the contribution of the industry to our profession has been undervalued for years. Without advanced technology and the industry to support research and distribute highly specialized products, our speciality would not have achieved the current level of excellence. The Society wishes to promote the information from the industry on products that may offer new or better treatment to our patients.
News Archive
A recent report by the Dr Foster group demonstrated a higher mortality rate for patients admitted as an emergency at the weekend than for patients admitted as an emergency during the week. The report also suggested that hospitals with higher levels of senior staff available at the weekends...
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In line with SCTS policy for making clincial information more accessible we are pursuing a policy to make our cardiac audit data, and the processes that we apply to the data, more transparent. We have been fortunate to receive a grant from Heart Research UK, which is funding an analyst, Graeme...
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The Public Inquiry into the events at Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation, chaired by Robert Francis QC, has now completed questioning witnesses. This Inquiry followed concerns about standards of care at the Trust, confirmed in an investigation published by the Healthcare Commission in March 2009 and...
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By Nick Triggle, Health correspondent, BBC News. Financial difficulties will force NHS services in England to undergo major reorganisations which could hit the poorest the hardest, MPs say. The Public Accounts Committee said for hospitals this could mean services being closed or whole units merged....
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The website of the Society (SCTS.org) has welcome thousands of visitors within the first 2 months of its life. The most visited sector was that of the ‘Thoracic blue book 2011’. There was a stunning 14,444 visitors within 30 days, bringing the number of visitors per day up to the...
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