Leading health organisations, including the RCP, and those with lived experience have written an open letter to Minister Jo Churchill urging the Department to commit to reducing air pollution from PM2.5 to 10μg m-3 by 2030.
The RCP has called for the government to strengthen its proposed targets for improving air quality in its response to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs’ consultation on environmental targets.
RCP SAS lead Dr Jamie Read has been appointed to the post of dean of medical education and director of the Centre for Medical Education by Cardiff University, which he will be taking up from September 2022.
The RCP has launched a new acute care toolkit aimed at all staff who work in acute medical units. It provides important and straightforward advice when treating patients with a learning disability who present as acutely unwell.
In the week the BMA published ‘Racism in Medicine’ the RCP published the data it holds about the diversity of its officers, senior roles, Council and senior staff.