Royal College of Surgeons

The RCS has urged the Government to spend an extra £1 billion on surgery annually (Photo: Getty Images)

Surgeons call for specialist hubs to tackle ‘colossal’ surgery backlog and cut w...

A Leeds surgeon has been suspended over concerns about patient treatment.

Leeds surgeon suspended as almost '50 patients recalled for review' at Spire Hos...

Head of analysis at NHS Providers, Phillippa Hentsch

Hospital bed crisis '˜now lasts all year'

The Yorkshire Post says: The NHS is facing a winter of woe again

Figures show how many patients are having treatment delayed under new rules

'Unfair' restrictions catching one-in-five patients

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Yorkshire '˜postcode lottery' means patients must get fatter to have surgery

Question of ethics?: Health chiefs in the Vale of York have suggested restrictions on elective surgery for smokers and the overweight, sparking outcry. (PA).

NHS '˜ban' is a health warning

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Approved: NHS surgery ban on fat patients and smokers in Yorkshire

NHS heads reject demands for rethink over operation delays

'˜Obese patients and smokers face being refused surgery in Yorkshire'

Sharp contrasts in access to NHS dentists across Yorkshire

Letters August 20: Prescription for an NHS driven by a vocation to care

Install GPs in A&E units to avoid more crises, say doctors

Stroke surgery treatment fails to meet Nice guideline’s 14-day target

Surgeons refusing to publish data will be named by NHS

Surgeons allowed to opt out of league tables

Shift rules warning for new doctors

Fears over late diagnosis of cleft palates

NHS cuts ‘putting older patients at risk of age discrimination’

Cancer treatment survival rates show increase

How patients can pay the price for overseas operarations
Each year, 50,000 people from the UK pay to have surgery abroad and the figure is growing.

Music soothes surgery patients and helps healing, say doctors

Medical artists and surgeons combine to get under the skin of top athletes

EU doctors language skills ‘risk’ to patients’

Surgery results ‘better for patients at private treatment centres’

Surgical changes at Leeds meet challenge of new NHS report

Voicebox transplant given the go-ahead

Cystic fibrosis patient leads way as surgeon

Leeds children’s heart unit at risk as experts agree cuts

Men lead growing rush for surgery to improve looks

Surgeons 'work more than contracted hours'

Economic cost of obesity 'could be slashed'
Failure to offer obese patients weight-loss surgery is costing the wider economy hundreds of millions of pounds every year, say leading surgeons.

Economic cost of obesity 'could be slashed'

Patients facing 'unacceptable' waits for broken hip surgery

Patients facing 'unacceptable' waits for broken hip surgery

Patient safety worries as college urges change in doctor training

Conference campaign brings in £3m extra business to area

Bernard Dineen: Dogma is a prescription for medical chaos