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In April 2018, the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) released a call for research to evaluate whether microsurgical repair of isolated digital nerve injury offers benefit over exploration and washout. The RSTN is supporting an application and is currently undertaking … Read More

Invitation to complete the iBRA Randomisation Acceptability Survey Dear iBRA collaborators and colleagues, Many thanks for your help with the iBRA study. iBRA has recruited over 2000 patients from over 50 centres in the UK making it the largest prospective … Read More

The WIRE surveys have finally been published. Apologies for the delay! The paper is the first to have a ‘corporate author’. All collaborators that met the criteria, have been recognised and PubMed cited. Click here for the free full text … Read More

Dear all, We are conducting a very short survey on how pleomorphic dermal sarcoma is being managed across different units in the UK. https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/6ZZ3KCB We would really appreciate it if you could complete the survey monkey questionnaire. It only takes … Read More

Abstract Submission NOW OPEN! Please do read all the guidance notes including rules and regulations carefully before submitting your abstract as we would like your submission to be successful!All abstracts should be submitted over our dedicated abstracts portal by Monday 29 January … Read More

NINJA-Pilot RCT Congratulations to the NINJA team and collaborators! The NINJA-Pilot RCT has been published in the British Journal of Surgery in the November issue. It can be downloaded with open access here: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bjs.10673/epdf. The key finding is that a … Read More

From Adam Reid: Dear plastic surgery colleagues, We have an exciting opportunity to appoint an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow in Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery through the North West Deanery and the University of Manchester. This position holds a National Training … Read More

The Welsh Centre for Burns & Plastic Surgery & ReconRegen, Swansea University £31,838 to £45,304 + 1A on-call banding per annum This job provides a role for a candidate with both clinical progression and academic output in mind. It would … Read More

The RCS has advertised a fourth round of systematic reviews. Applications will be accepted from teams formed of at least one supervising consultant surgeon and three trainees. From these applications, three teams will be invited to carry out the reviews … Read More

The first NIHR-RCS Trauma Research Prioritisation Workshop was held at the Royal College of Surgeons of England on 23rd May. The meeting was one of the largest of its type held by the NIHR reflecting the diversity and multi-disciplinary nature … Read More