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News Archive—December 2022

Results of the Congenital Heart Disease Priority Setting Partnership

Results of the Congenital Heart Disease Priority Setting Partnership

Top 10 lists of priorities, one child/antenatal and one adult congenital

  Working with the James Lind Alliance, the Congenital Heart Disease Priority Setting Partnership brought together patients, parents, charities and healthcare professionals to identify national priorities for research. The results have now... Read more

21 Dec 2022

Announcement

Announcement

New Communications Sub-Committee Members

We would like to congratulate the new  SCTS Communications Sub-committee members on their appointments:   Bil Kirmani – Communications Consultant Living Text Book Co-Lead  Jeremy Smelt – Communications Consultant Living text Book Co-Lead  Lee... Read more

20 Dec 2022

New National Selection Deputy Lead:

New National Selection Deputy Lead:

Steve Woolley

We are delighted to announce Steve Woolley has been appointed to Deputy National Selection role for Cardiothoracic Surgery.  Steve will join Steven Tsui and Ehab Bishay for this year’s national selection process.  National Selection is one of... Read more

20 Dec 2022

New Chair of the Cardiothoracic Specialty Surgical Board of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh

New Chair of the Cardiothoracic Specialty Surgical Board of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh

Mr. Maninder Singh Kalkat

We congratulate Mr Maninder Singh Kalkat, Consultant Thoracic Surgeon University Hospitals of Birmingham who has been appointed as the Chair of the Cardiothoracic Specialty Surgical Board of the Royal College of Surgeons of... Read more

20 Dec 2022

Tribute to Dame Clare Marx CBE DL MBBS PRCS

Tribute to Dame Clare Marx CBE DL MBBS PRCS

Who very sadly died on Sunday 27 November 2022, from pancreatic cancer.

A consultant orthopaedic surgeon, Dame Clare became the first woman President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, serving from July 2014 until July 2017.  She was also the first woman to be President of the British Orthopaedic... Read more

16 Dec 2022