Abstract
The Federation of Surgical Specialty Associations (FSSA) comprises the presidents of all the surgical specialties recognised by the General Medical Council. Together with the presidents of the four royal colleges, the FSSA constitutes the Surgical Forum of GB and Ireland. The FSSA is therefore representative of surgical opinion in the UK and Ireland, irrespective of specialty, College affiliation or place of work. As the corporate body of the Surgical Specialty Associations, the primary aim of the FSSA is to represent and coordinate the views, aims and policies of surgeons from across the UK and Ireland. The FSSA is committed to advancing, promoting and protecting the highest standards in the practice of surgery in the best interests of patients. The FSSA supports the publication of surgical outcomes. This transparency informs patients and provides assurance that care is safe. Importantly, it also allows surgeons to benchmark their outcomes against their peers and this leads to improvement in the quality of patient care. However, the FSSA has misgivings about the publication of individual surgeons’ crude outcomes data.
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