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21 January 2019
News
The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) invites its fellows to nominate candidates for the 2018 RCP elections.
23 January 2019
Press release
Clinical effectiveness and evaluation
Patient safety
Quality improvement
Hospitals are using a standardised review approach to learn from adult acute deaths and improve patient care, a landmark report released by the RCP reveals today.
23 January 2019
Press release
Delivery of care
Hospitals
NHS
The RCP has welcomed the government's plans to expand existing genomics projects from 2019, which were unveiled at the Conservative party conference by Matt Hancock, the UK secretary of state for health and social care.
23 January 2019
Press release
Delivery of care
Clinical effectiveness and evaluation
Hospitals
NHS
Patient involvement
Quality improvement
The RCP has today released new guidance to support doctors in putting patients at the heart of everything they do.
29 January 2019
News
EU
Quality improvement
Representatives from the RCP Quality Improvement (RCPQI) project are today presenting at CleanMed Europe 2018's 'Sustainability in healthcare education and CPD' session, taking place in Nijmegen, Netherlands.
23 January 2019
Press release
Delivery of care
NHS
Social care
Responding to today's release by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) of its State of Care 2017–18 annual report, RCP president Professor Andrew Goddard has called for further investment in integration in order to transform health and social care services and support new ideas.
23 January 2019
Press release
Delivery of care
Hospitals
NHS
Patient safety
The RCP's latest report, Talking about dying: How to begin honest conversations about what lies ahead, explores the reasons that doctors and other healthcare professionals find it hard to talk to patients about dying.
23 January 2019
Press release
NHS
Physician associates
Workforce
The Faculty of Physician Associates (FPA) and the RCP said that they are 'delighted' by the UK secretary of state for health and social care, Matt Hancock's plans to move forward with plans to introduce statutory regulation of physician associates.
17 December 2019
News
Medical student
Undergraduate and postgraduate medical students in the UK and abroad will now be offered free membership by the RCP in a bid to help better prepare the next generation of physicians for the qualifying MRCP(UK) exams.
23 January 2019
Press release
Delivery of care
NHS
Workforce
Social care
Policy
A coalition of royal colleges and health faculties has urged UK chancellor Philip Hammond to use the autumn budget to deliver a long-term investment in adult social care, public health services and the NHS workforce, or otherwise risk the NHS failing to meet demands despite the recent £20.5 billion funding increase.