SAS Week 14–18 October 2024

Between 14–18 October 2024, we’ll be celebrating SAS Week alongside NHS Employers and the BMA.

Throughout the week, we’ll be publishing dedicated blogs on topics such as SAS as a career choice, SAS development and SAS wellbeing, as well as signposting to existing resources for SAS doctors.

Join the conversation by using the hashtag #SASWeek24

Read our #SASWeek24 blogs

News

15/10/24

RCP celebrates SAS Week 2024 by publishing open letter to the NHS

Blog

14/10/24

Rowing upstream? SAS as a career choice and the SAS Charter

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Letter

15/10/24

An open letter to the NHS for #SASWeek24

Dr Naeem Aziz, RCP SAS lead, has written an open letter to NHS organisations across the UK, calling on employers to value and support SAS doctors by offering specialty doctors the opportunity to become specialists.   

News

15/10/24

RCP celebrates SAS Week 2024 by publishing open letter to the NHS

As #SASWeek24 kicks off, the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) SAS lead, Dr Naeem Aziz has written an open letter to NHS organisations across the UK, urging them to support and value the specialist, associate specialist and specialty (SAS) doctor workforce by offering specialty doctors the opportunity to become specialists.

Blog

14/10/24

Rowing upstream? SAS as a career choice and the SAS Charter

Dr Priscilla Smith, SAS doctor rep for London South explores the feeling of ‘other’ experienced by many SAS doctors, and the breadth skill of skill and knowledge they bring to the NHS workforce.

Blog

25/06/24

Let’s change the narrative on SAS doctors

Specialist, associate specialist and specialty (SAS) doctors are (along with locally employed doctors) the fastest-growing group in the medical workforce. As the RCP launches new educational and career support guidance for SAS doctors and employers, Dr Naeem Aziz, recently appointed RCP SAS lead, reflects on life in the NHS as an SAS doctor.

News

25/06/24

Educational And Career Support Guidance Cover

RCP publishes new educational and career guidance for specialist, associate specialist and specialty (SAS) doctors

The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) has published new educational and career guidance for specialist, associate specialist and specialty (SAS) doctors.

Blog

15/07/21

SAS as viable careers

By Dr Helen Bonwick FRCP associate specialist in palliative medicine at Marie Curie Hospice Liverpool and Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, and RCP SAS representative for Mersey region.

Blog

14/07/21

SAS doctors as leaders

By Dr Khalifa Boukadida FRCP, specialty doctor in orthogeriatric medicine at Southend University Hospital, RCP SAS Deputy Lead and RCP Membership Support and Global Engagement Board SAS representative.

Blog

13/07/21

SAS doctors as researchers

By Dr Sashidharan Parameswaran FRCP, associate specialist in Sexual Health Service at Homerton University Hospital, London and RCP SAS representative for Central and North East London region.

Blog

12/07/21

SAS doctors as educators

By Dr Helen Yandell FRCP, associate specialist in acute medicine and college tutor at Yeovil Hospital.