The Royal College of Physicians is proud to partner with some of the world's most prestigious organisations, building mutually beneficial and high-profile relationships that positively impact the healthcare sector in the UK and globally.
The RCP is a registered charity wholly independent from government, run by doctors, for the benefit of all. The RCP has been at the forefront of patient care for over 500 years. Our work is guided by the needs and interests of our members, and corporate partnerships enable us to enhance and broaden our efforts across education, quality improvement, publishing, our heritage collection, and events.
Partnering with the Royal College of Physicians offers a unique opportunity to collaborate with an independent, clinically led and patient-centred organisation that delivers high-quality content to a global community of physicians.
Through this partnership, your organisation gains access to a highly influential audience of over 40,000 members and fellows — including clinicians, researchers, and healthcare leaders — across the UK and internationally.
Why partner with us?
- Reputational enhancement
Enhance your company’s reputation by aligning with the prestigious Royal College of Physicians, England’s oldest medical college, through shared values and strategic partnership. - Brand visibility and recognition
Promote your company, its products and services to highly engaged healthcare students, trainees and professionals across the education spectrum and through our prestigious annual conferences. - Support improvement of healthcare
Partner with RCP to support for advancements in healthcare, medical education, and quality improvement. - Deliver social responsibility goals
Partner with RCP to fulfil CSR or ESG objectives by supporting projects with measurable impact on society and public health.
Ways we can partner
We offer many opportunities for partnership and can create bespoke opportunities:
- Sponsor RCP conferences or regional events
- Sponsor places on educational courses, such as Emerging Women Leaders
- Sponsor a spotlight webinar on RCP Player, for example past spotlights have included dermatology (alopecia, vitiligo and atopic dermatitis) and rare diseases (lymphoma, Castleman disease and cystic fibrosis)
- Support our accreditation programmes to raise standards of care in NHS hospitals, for example the Improving Quality in Liver Services (IQILS) programme
- Support our work to convene thought leaders to discuss critical issues, such as cardiovascular disease prevention
- Advertise in RCP journals
Corporate partnership impact
Emerging Women Leaders
Emerging Women Leaders is a year-long development programme designed to address the lack of female leadership in high level roles within healthcare. It is a mixture of workshops, talks, networking opportunities and mentoring, supporting female physicians who are aspiring to or have recently taken on leadership roles.
Each year, this programme has been supported by corporate partners who funded free places for physicians. Physicians at trusts without the resources to pay for the training were still able to attend, widening participation and broadening the benefit of the programme.
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I found the RCP Emerging Women Leaders Programme to be incredibly liberating. It challenged my previous perception of leadership and gave me permission to approach things differently.
I found the support of the other candidates on the course invaluable as I navigated a new career path.
Emma Walkinshaw
Consultant diabetologist, EWL Programme 2022–2023
Corporate sponsorship policy
The RCP will not accept income from organisations whose principal source of income is derived from:
- Tobacco or e-cigarettes and related products
- Arms manufacture and the defence or security sectors
- Alcoholic drinks
- Gambling
- Unhealthy foods and soft drinks
- Pornography
- Fossil fuels
- Illegal activities
The RCP welcomes working with and accepting support from pharmaceutical companies that is in line with the Association of British Pharmaceutical Companies’ (ABPI) code of practice, or with other companies involved in medical research, diagnostics or devices so long as any relationship or agreement does not risk the independence of the RCP, particularly in relation to policy development and governance.
Where partnerships involve the pharmaceutical industry the proposed arrangement must comply with the Medicines (Advertising) Regulations 1994.
Contact
Please get in touch if you would like to learn more about partnering with the RCP:
Thomas Whittingham (deputy director of development) - Thomas.Whittingham@rcp.ac.uk