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10 July 2015
Press release
RCP president, Sir Richard Thompson said:
10 July 2015
Press release
The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) is pleased that the Future Forum has recommended multiprofessional involvement and an increased role for hospital doctors in commissioning.
10 July 2015
Press release
VSO and the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) are concerned that the government’s proposed changes to immigration laws announced today, will have a significant impact on a training initiative that increases the quality of medical healthcare in the developing world and has significant benefits for the NHS.
10 July 2015
Press release
NHS
The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) welcomes the prime minister’s commitment to the integration of services. We believe that a commitment to give hospital doctors a role in local commissioning bodies is essential to achieve the best quality care for patients, and comprehensive and efficient health services for all.
10 July 2015
Press release
A new report from the Royal College of Physicians and the Association of British Neurologists says that overall, services for patients with neurological conditions are poorly organised, and do not meet patients’ needs.
9 October 2015
News
History and art
One of the oldest books in English in the RCP library concerning hearing loss is John Bulwer’s Philocophus: or, The deafe and dumbe mans friend, published in London in 1648. Bulwer (1606–1656) was a physician and wrote several books concerning communication. The book is devoted to promoting the benefit of learning to lip read, a skill that Bulwer describes as ‘subtile art, which may inable one with an observant Eie, to Heare what any man speraks by the moving of his lips.’ It presents the story of a deaf Spanish man, Don Luis Velasco, who was taught to lip read and to speak by a schoolmaster.
10 July 2015
Press release
In its response to the Future Forum as part of the government’s listening exercise on the Health and Social Care Bill 2011, the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) says that:
10 July 2015
Press release
Care for patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) has improved since 2008, according to the third UK IBD audit, but many hospitals are still not reaching the National IBD Service Standards, launched in February 2009.
10 July 2015
Press release
Health informatics
Responding to the recent National Audit Office report on the delivery of detailed care records, the directors of the Royal College of Physicians’ (RCP) Health Informatics Unit (HIU) agree that the delivery of a central system for care records is not achievable. Instead, Professors John Williams and Iain Carpenter say that the way forward is to implement national standards for the structure and content of care records from a clinical perspective.
29 October 2015
Press release
The National Audit of Falls and Bone Health in Older People reports that there is unacceptable variation in the quality of NHS services for care and prevention of falls and fractures. In many areas, there is a major gap between what NHS organisations claim to provide, in terms of commissioning, protocols or structure; and what clinical audit reveals in terms of actual care provided. The audit shows that older patients with fractures do not routinely receive key aspects of care for falls prevention or bone health, needlessly exposing them to a greater risk of further falls and fractures.