Nationality British Name Clare Marx | Alma mater UCL Medical School | |
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Institutions Orthopaedic Surgeon, Ipswich Hospital
President, Royal College of Surgeons of England | ||
Vijaya nath in conversation with clare marx
Clare Lucy Marx CBE, DL, MBBS, PRCS was President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England from July 2014 to July 2017, the first woman to hold the position. She has worked as an orthopaedic surgeon at Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust since 1993.
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- Vijaya nath in conversation with clare marx
- Clare marx president of rcs talks about women in surgery for international women s day 2016
- Biography
- Honours
- References
Clare marx president of rcs talks about women in surgery for international women s day 2016
Biography
Marx qualified in medicine from the University College London Medical School in 1977. Her surgical house jobs were in the London area and later she completed an arthroplasty training at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, USA. She became a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at St. Mary's Hospital and St Charles Hospital London with a particular interest in early surgical education. In 1993 she became clinical director of the combined A&E, Trauma & Orthopaedics and Rheumatology directorate at Ipswich Hospital. Later she chaired the LNC, the Medical Staff Committee and was extensively involved in many of the Hospitals groups for governance and new projects.She was elected to RCS Council in 2009. She was elected to the BOA Council and became President of the BOA for 2008-9. She was made Chair of the RCS invited review Mechanism in 2011. In 2013 she became associate Medical Director at Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust with a special remit for revalidation and appraisal, and continues in that role having stopped active orthopaedic practice in March 2014. She became President of the College in July 2014.
After the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union in the June 2016 referendum, Marx posited in an interview with The Daily Telegraph that Brexit was an opportunity to improve safety standards in the NHS by strengthening medical device legislation and language testing for non-British workers. She also felt that the European Working Time Directive which restricts working hours in the NHS needed to be relaxed to enable more hours of training. The Royal College of Surgeons of England later sent out a press release clarifying that they did not endorse a return to excessive hours for NHS workers.
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