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The UK’s top health news on Friday 5 March 2021
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The UK’s top health news on Friday 5 March 2021
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Professor Jackie Taylor, President of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, has expressed her sadness over the death of Dr Clifford Mann OBE, former President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine.
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The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow has donated £5,000 to assist an urgent appeal for medical supplies to assist hospitals fight the COVID-19 pandemic in Malawi.
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As Malawi is hit by a second, more lethal wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, an urgent appeal is underway by the Scotland-Malawi Partnership to provide urgent medical equipment to the southern African country.
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The President of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, Professor Jackie Taylor has commented on the publication today (Friday 26 March 2021) of the British Medical Association Scotland (BMA) Report on consultant retention in the NHS 2021.
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Professor Jackie Taylor, President of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, has welcomed the publication of the Feeley review of Adult Social Care in Scotland.
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College Vice President (Dental) and Dean of the Faculty of Dental Surgery, Mr Andy Edwards has reached out to dental students in Scotland following the recent announcement they will be required to extend their training by up to an additional year.
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President of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, Professor Jackie Taylor has welcomed the Audit Scotland report NHS in Scotland 2020 published this week and called for action to ensure the health and wellbeing of the healthcare workforce is at the forefront of decision-making around the renewal and remobilisation programme.
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“Recovery and then renewal”. These four words in the title of a recent King’s Fund report by Michael West and Suzie Bailey really hit home to me. It is a simple message that we all need hear. We cannot expect to deliver the best care for our patients, if we are at the limit of our own reserves.
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College President, Professor Jackie Taylor has expressed deep concern for our Fellows and Members in Myanmar and their friends and relatives around the world. We are hopeful for a peaceful settlement and welcome the assurance from the United Nations that it will do all it can to unite the country.