Mr Charles Collins This is Me

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1. 1. Douglas County Bank

   www.dcbank.com/portal/story.as - [Cached]

   Published on: 10/27/2003   Last Visited: 5/31/2004

   However, consultant general surgeon Charles Collins, spokesman for the Royal College of Surgeons, said the majority of surgeons were happy to 'espouse' new technologies.
   
   'But they are very frustrated about not having the funding within the NHS to do so,' he said.

2. 2. Chris Alden, freelance writer and editor

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   Published on: 9/5/2002   Last Visited: 7/22/2007

   'HES is getting better,' says Mr Charles Collins, chairman of the clinical effectiveness committee of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 'but it's nowhere near accurate enough for meaningful and acceptable outcomes to be published - even for individual units, let alone individual surgeons'.
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   'The difficulty is of course that the endpoint of other forms of surgery is not so absolute as it is for cardiac surgeons,' says Mr Collins.
   
   'Surgeons across other specialties will not be happy to have anything published until the information is as accurate as that which the cardiac surgeons feel will be available in about two years' time.'
   
   He adds: 'With the right sort of investment - and this has to be based on NHS new monies - then perhaps the results will come through, but it will be a few years yet.'

3. 3. Excite - News

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   Published on: 3/10/2002   Last Visited: 3/10/2002

   Charles Collins, a council member of the Royal College of Surgeons, welcomed the mobile units but stressed they were only a temporary solution.
   
   "This is a good thing, but it should not be seen as anything more than a short-term fix," he told The Times.
   
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