Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh blogs for World Patient Safety Day 2026 (Safe care for noncommunicable diseases)

Summary

To mark World Patient Safety Day and the 2026 theme of ‘Safe care for noncommunicable diseases’, the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RCSEd) has produced a series of blogs.

• Operating as One to Deliver Safe Care for Life

• Focus on Rare Congenital Conditions Transforming Transition & Lifelong Outcomes

• Safety Hurdles of the Head and Neck Cancer Pathway - Safe Care Strategy

• Safe Surveillance is a Systems Issue

• Patient Safety in Cardiac Surgery is a Team Game

• Patient Safety in Major Joint Replacement Surgery

• How Could You Have Forgotten My Catheter Doctor, I Haven't

• How Metabolic Bariatric Surgery is Changing

• How We Can Prevent, Repair and Learn