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17 March 2016
News
Quality improvement
On Tuesday 16 February, Improving Quality in Physiological Services (IQIPS) hosted its very first patient engagement event at The Royal College of Physicians (RCP). The event was a valuable opportunity for ensuring that programme standards are based on patient centred evidence as well as clinical evidence, while bringing the focus back to patients and raising awareness of the IQIPS scheme among patient groups.
21 March 2016
Press release
Professor Jane Dacre's presidential welcome speech, presented on the 15 March 2016 at Medicine 2016.
24 March 2016
News
History of medicine
History and art
This small painting, a depiction of the Swiss geologist and meteorologist Jean-André de Luc (1727–1817), is an unlikely portrait to find in the RCP museum collection. De Luc was not a physician, but he was a fellow of the Royal Society at the same time as famed surgeon and anatomist John Hunter (1728–1793) and would have moved in the same circles.
1 April 2016
News
History of medicine
History and art
The two vainest presidents of the RCP, Sir William Browne (1692–1774) and Sir Henry Halford (1766–1844), currently find themselves sharing wall space in the Lasdun Hall. Installing Henry Glindoni’s painting in the exhibition ‘Scholar, courtier, magician: the lost library of John Dee’ has displaced the portraits that normally hang on the wall outside the Osler Room, resulting in some unusual pairings.
27 June 2016
News
Stroke Medicine
The thirteenth report from the Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme (SSNAP) reveals today that 25 stroke services scored an overall ‘A’ score for the quality of care they provide for patients, demonstrating that a world class service is achievable.
29 November 2016
Press release
Medical student
Foundation doctor
Core medical trainee
Specialty trainee
The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges' statement on the junior doctors dispute.
29 March 2016
News
Gastroenterology
We are delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Chuka Nwokolo as deputy treasurer of the RCP.
31 March 2016
Press release
New end of life care audit is run by the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) and is funded by NHS England and Marie Curie, and commissioned by the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership.
30 June 2016
News
History and art
In the first in a new series of guest posts about John Dee’s life, books and publications, the Pepys Librarian at Magdalene College, Cambridge writes about books owned by both John Dee and Samuel Pepys.
30 June 2016
News
History and art
As part of our series of guest posts about John Dee’s life, books and publications, Mehzebin Adam from the Science Museum, London, writes about mystical objects believed to have been owned by Dee. These objects can been seen in the current RCP exhibition ‘Scholar, courtier, magician: the lost library of John Dee’.