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21 October 2019
Blog
Equality and diversity
This Doctor Can
Equality and diversity consultant, Ben Summerskill talks about why equality and diversity in medicine matters.Ben was chief executive of Stonewall from 2013-2014. He is a former commissioner at the Equality & Human Rights Commission and is currently on the board of ACAS (the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service).
7 October 2019
Blog
Clinical effectiveness and evaluation
Delivery of care
Patient involvement
Quality improvement
Change in the NHS can be slow. Here Dr Binita Kane explains how clinicians, patients and strong strategic leadership are coming together to make a difference.
7 October 2019
News
Clinical effectiveness and evaluation
Delivery of care
Patient involvement
Quality improvement
The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) has published a guide for physicians on what they need to know about implementing the NHS Long Term Plan (LTP) to deliver more integrated care.
7 October 2019
News
The 2019 Lilly Lectures were delivered by Dr Emma Redfern, consultant in emergency medicine at University Hospitals Bristol, and Dr Natasha Jones, consultant in sports and exercise medicine at Oxford University Hospitals.
7 October 2019
Blog
NHS
RCP’s president, Professor Andrew Goddard gives his view on the news that NHS England and Improvement has recommended an NHS integrated care bill.
21 October 2019
Blog
People with a disability
This Doctor Can
Dr Emma Tremaine talks about how being diagnosed with dyspraxia lead her to inspire others to follow in her footsteps.
9 October 2019
Blog
Sustainability
As I was sitting down to write this column, many homes — including mine — were in the midst of school exam results season and the highs and lows that go along with it. Tensions were high in the Goddard household, and so we were grateful for the chance to take a break to sunny Wales. The summer's ‘good’ weather, though, had got me thinking.
10 October 2019
Press release
Acute medicine
Acute care
A new acute care toolkit from the Royal College of Physicians and the Society for Acute Medicine provides practical guidance for healthcare staff caring for pregnant women with an urgent medical problem like chest or heart pain, breathlessness or severe headache.
13 October 2019
Press release
Workforce
Working for health
Only 13% of senior doctors’ posts in England were made in rural parts of the country, according to a UK-wide census of doctors conducted by the Royal College of Physicians of London, the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.
13 October 2019
News
Consultant
Working for health
Workplace wellbeing
The 2018 census of consultant physicians and higher specialty trainees, produced by the Medical Workforce Unit (MWU) at RCP on behalf of RCP London, the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (RCPE) and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow (RCPSG), has been published.