Policy and campaigns in Wales

RCP Cymru Wales has published the summary and findings from the Welsh royal colleges and professional bodies advisory group spring workshop with Health Education and Improvement Wales on NHS Wales workforce data and intelligence.

RCP Cymru Wales has published the summary and findings from the spring 2023 meeting of the Welsh specialty and specialist (SAS) doctor network. 

RCP Cymru Wales launches a new briefing paper calling on NHS Wales health boards to invest in staff, associate specialist and specialty (SAS) doctors.  

A new briefing from the Welsh NHS Confederation Health and Wellbeing Alliance and the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) describes how the NHS, local government and third sector organisations across Wales are working to break down barriers and tackle health inequalities.

A new RCP Cymru Wales report highlights the importance of training doctors locally in north Wales as a solution to the workforce crisis.  

RCP Cymru Wales has published its response to the Welsh government’s stakeholder questionnaire on establishing an NHS Executive for Wales.

31 organisations, including royal colleges, patient groups and third sector bodies have written to the Senedd Health and Care Committee in response to a request for views on the Welsh government’s proposed hybrid model for the new NHS executive for Wales.

24 royal colleges and allied health professional (RCAHP) bodies in Wales have established a multidisciplinary external advisory group on workforce planning, service transformation and other shared priorities.

RCP Cymru Wales has published its response to the Welsh government’s plan for transforming and modernising planned care and reducing waiting lists. 

RCP Cymru Wales has published its response to the Health Education and Improvement Wales education and training plan 2023/24. 

RCP Cymru Wales has published its response to the Senedd health and social care committee inquiry into mental health inequalities.

RCP Cymru Wales has launched a new report calling for investment in ‘hospital at home’ services that provide specialist medical care in the community across Wales.

RCP Cymru Wales has published its response to the Welsh government’s health and social care winter plan 2021 to 2022. 

RCP Cymru Wales has published its response to the Senedd health and social care committee short inquiry into the impact of the waiting times backlog on people in Wales who are waiting for diagnosis or treatment.

RCP Cymru Wales has published its response to the Senedd health and social care committee short inquiry into hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals. 

Convened by RCP Cymru Wales, 22 organisations have come together to call for a single national body with strategic oversight of NHS Wales to drive improvements in patient care and hold health boards to account.  

As the Welsh NHS enters a second pandemic winter, 17 medical royal colleges and faculties convened by RCP Cymru Wales have come together with a joint statement calling for national action on workforce shortages, health inequalities and the NHS backlog.

In 2021-22, Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW) should support doctors to deliver the best care possible by investing in postgraduate training, medical education, and career development.

Ahead of the 2021 Senedd election, 36 organisations from across health, social care, transport and housing, convened by RCP Cymru Wales, have signed up to a paper which calls for urgent Welsh government action on health inequalities.

RCP Cymru Wales has published its response to the joint draft health and social care workforce strategy from Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW) and Social Care Wales, calling for an ambitious, patient centred and clinically led approach, accompanied by a clear action plan.