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Season’s greetings from ANZSCTS

Dec 24, 2015 | News

ANZSCTS Office hours over the holiday period: Please be advised the Society Office closes on 23 December for the holiday period. The Office will reopen on Monday 11 January 2016. As the festive season approaches, we would like to take this opportunity to wish you and...

HPS Report: Impact of the changing role of private health insurers on clinical autonomy

Dec 22, 2015 | News

The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) has commissioned a report to better understand the changing role of private health insurers in Australia and New Zealand and to undertake a preliminary assessment of the impact of these changes on the clinical autonomy...

STS Clinical Practice Guidelines on arterial conduits for coronary artery bypass grafting

Dec 11, 2015 | Guideline & Position Statements, News

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons has released a new clinical practice guideline that recommends the use of arterial rather than venous conduits when performing coronary artery bypass grafting in certain patients. The new guideline is available on The Annals of...

RACS Action Plan on discrimination, bullying and sexual harassment

Dec 5, 2015 | News

Dear Members and Trainees, Building Respect, Improving Patient Safety: An Action Plan on discrimination, bullying and sexual harassment (link to RACS website) Today, RACS published an action plan designed to promote respect, counter discrimination, bullying and sexual...

Updates on current advocacy topics from the Government Relation Committee

Nov 5, 2015 | News

The ANZSCTS Government Relations Committee page has been updated with the latest correspondence & information on a number of current topics including: MBS review of percutaneous coronary interventions RACS position statement on the care of the paediatric position...

RACS EAG report on discrimination, bullying & sexual harassment in surgery

Sep 12, 2015 | News

The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons’ Expert Advisory Group (EAG) has released research results and published its draft report to the College on the extent of discrimination, bullying and sexual harassment in the practice of surgery. The report and...