Skip to main content
↑
About SCTS
  1. Home
  2. About SCTS
  3. News
  4. News Archive

News Archive

GP referrals down by 4.7%

On 14/9/11, Mike Broad reported that DoH statistics suggest that GP referrals are down 4.7% this year. These referrals had shown a 3.5% increase at the same stage last year. The data also shows that first outpatient attendances have also declined... Read more

20 Sep 2011

Andrew Lansley’s speech at the Society Meeting

On Monday 21 March 2011, the Health Secretary Rt Hon. Andrew Lansley gave a speech at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Cardiothoracic Surgery for Great Britain and Ireland. Mr Graham Cooper, the Society’s Secretary, presented the new... Read more

22 Mar 2011

True extent of NHS job cuts revealed

In response to a series of Freedom of Information requests, officials confirmed that 53,150 posts are due to be lost across 155 hospital trusts, 126 primary care trusts, 23 ambulance trusts and 54 mental health trusts in England, as well as 15... Read more

23 Feb 2011

EWTD – letter to Chief Executives June 2009

The planned introduction of the European Working Time Directive (EWTD) in 2009 and changes to training as a result of Modernising Medical Careers (MMC) have raised questions about service delivery within the NHS. Cardiac surgery has always been... Read more

11 Jun 2009