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22 May 2018
News
Air quality
Sustainability
The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) is marking 2 years since the publication of Every breath we take: the lifelong impact of air pollution with a 2018 progress update and a Westminster event that will bring stakeholders and parliamentarians together to accelerate action on air pollution.
3 April 2018
News
RCP 500
Dr Andrew Goddard has been elected the 121st president of the Royal College of Physicians (RCP). In a close-run election that saw nine candidates stand and the maximum seven voting transfers, Dr Goddard won with 2,313 votes, 597 more than the nearest candidate.
28 March 2018
Blog
Older people
Delivery of care
Hospitals
NHS
Quality improvement
Our Future Health
Professor David Oliver discusses clinical resourcing in the NHS, and how the Royal College of Physicians' (RCP's) new Our Future Health programme of events, activities and publications are being organised to provide a forum for debate.
9 April 2018
News
Geriatric Medicine
Older people
Clinical effectiveness and evaluation
Quality improvement
The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) has again won the contract to deliver the Falls and Fragility Fracture Audit Programme (FFFAP) for the next 3 years.
10 April 2018
News
Education
Research
Teaching
Applications for the 2018–19 MSc in Medical Education, delivered jointly by the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) and University College London (UCL), are now open.
6 April 2018
Blog
NHS
Professionalism
Workforce
Working for health
Workplace wellbeing
With the NHS nearing crisis point, Medical Workforce Unit (MWU) director Dr Nigel Trudgill outlines the results of the department's new wellbeing survey and discusses what we can do to improve wellbeing among consultant physicians.
12 April 2018
Blog
Alcohol
Diet
Drug misuse
Hospitals
Patient safety
Professionalism
Commentary
Every so often hospital staff see patients literally chained to another person for much or all of their appointment. Radhika Holmström asks is this how prisoners’ healthcare is arranged, and how they get access to hospital?
10 April 2018
News
Hospitals
NHS
Working for health
Following Health Education England’s consultation on Facing the Facts, Shaping the Future: A draft health and care workforce strategy for England, leaders from eight royal colleges and faculties have written a joint statement to urge the government and its partners to prioritise four key points while developing the new strategy.
7 April 2018
Blog
Data protection
Quality improvement
Research
Dr Paul Beckett, senior clinical lead at the National Lung Cancer Audit (NLCS) explains why it takes so long for data on lung cancer patients to be reported.
10 April 2018
News
Hospitals
Patient involvement
Professionalism
Quality improvement
Mentoring
The Patient and Carer Network (PCN) has today released its first annual impact report, developed to provide an overview of PCN involvement in the Royal College of Physicians' (RCP’s) work throughout 2017.