The RCP is pleased to host the first physician new fellow ceremony of 2021. We are still adhering to social distancing and this means that we have had to limit the number of guests onsite.

RCP responds to Jonathan Ashworth's speech at the Labour Party Conference 2021

To mark the UK’s first-ever East and South East Asian Heritage Month, Professor Cheng-Hock Toh, the RCP’s immediate past academic vice president, shares his story. Cheng-Hock is professor of haematology at the University of Liverpool and Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

NICE has published its first ever clinical guidelines for the diagnosis and management of obstructive sleep apnoea/hypopnoea syndrome (OSAHS), obesity hypoventilation syndrome (OHS) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with OSAHS (COPD–OSAHS overlap syndrome) in people over 16.

On 1 September 2021 the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) advised that a third dose of COVID-19 vaccine be offered to ‘severely immunosuppressed people’.

The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has updated its advice on COVID-19 booster vaccinations.

Real life stories of how people’s health is damaged by social factors such as poor housing are being highlighted by nearly 200 organisations calling for a cross-government strategy to reduce health inequalities.

Over 90 senior representatives of the Inequalities in Health Alliance (IHA) have written to the Prime Minister calling for a cross-government strategy to reduce health inequalities.  

This article is one of a short series looking at how the RCP has worked with, for and on behalf of its fellows and members during the pandemic.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced major new investment to deal with the NHS backlog, and begin reform of the social care system in England.