Registration is now open for RCSI’s Charter Week events, which will take place from 6-9 February 2024.

Focusing on the theme of Rising to Challenges in a Changing World, the programme seeks to give Fellows, Members and wider healthcare teams the opportunity to engage with each other on the challenges facing healthcare systems and the role they can play in navigating these challenges for the benefit of patients.

The annual meeting, held at RCSI’s St Stephen’s Green campus, is a celebration of the granting of the royal charter to the College in 1784. 

The National Office of Clinical Audit (NOCA) Conference takes place on Tuesday, 6 February, addressing quality healthcare data in Ireland.  

The meeting of the National Clinical Programmes in Surgery, Trauma and Orthopaedics and Emergency Medicine, and the Irish Surgical Training Group meeting take place on Wednesday, 7 February.  

The Clinical Programmes meeting will hear an update on surgical hubs, as well as discussing networked unscheduled and emergency care, the perioperative enhanced patient improvement programme, modernised care pathways and quality improvement.  

The annual Johnson and Johnson Lecture will be delivered by Michael Dowling, President and CEO of Northwell Health, on Thursday, 8 February. On Friday, 9 February we will welcome BBC war correspondent Fergal Keane for the annual Carmichael Lecture. The 99th Abraham Colles Lecture will be delivered by Professor David Nott, Professor of Practice (Surgery) and Consultant Surgeon, Imperial College London. Professor Nott will speak on leaving a legacy in warzones.  

A number of symposia will take place on Thursday and Friday, addressing topics including technology of the future for surgery, crisis management, transitions in a surgical career and surgery responding to global and environmental change. There will also be parallel sessions for each speciality.  

You can register to attend here. CPD credits are available.