News & Views

Read our latest policy roundup, a series of advocacy updates on our most recent policy and public affairs activities and successes.

Vikas Chadha, Chair of the College’s Training Committee, has commented on NHS England’s report on phase 1 of the Medical Training Review, which was published last week, saying: “It is encouraging that many of the challenges facing ophthalmology training, which we highlighted in our submission, have been recognised in NHS England’s initial review of medical training."

Read our latest policy roundup, a series of advocacy updates on our most recent policy and public affairs activities and successes.

The College has expressed support for the urgent call for coordinated action to address the decline in clinically trained research staff, which was made in the Medical Research Council’s (MRC) recently published report “Clinical Researchers in the United Kingdom: Reversing the Decline”. We believe this is critically important for the future of UK healthcare and biomedical innovation.

Read our latest policy roundup, a series of advocacy updates on our most recent policy and public affairs activities and successes.

Read our latest policy roundup, a series of advocacy updates on our most recent policy and public affairs activities and successes.

The College has pledged its commitment to the #SASsix campaign, a national initiative aimed at supporting specialist, associate specialist and specialty (SAS) doctors to develop within their careers and become leaders and educators. SAS doctors and locally employed doctors (LEDs) are the most rapidly rising group of doctors on the medical register.

Read our latest policy roundup, a series of advocacy updates on our most recent policy and public affairs activities and successes.

Read our latest policy roundup, a series of advocacy updates on our most recent policy and public affairs activities and successes.

We have made some important changes to the requirements for applicants who wish to apply to join the specialist register via the Portfolio pathway route.