Sir Richard was elected from a field of six candidates by single transferable vote, the result having been made public as College Day (29th March 2010) drew to a close.

Commenting on Sir Bruce Keogh’s review of mortality rates at 14 outlier NHS Trusts, Sir Richard Thomp

Commenting on the NHS Commissioning Board’s plan for increased access to services 7 days a week announcement from the NHS Commissioning Board, Sir Richard Thompson, president of the Royal College of Physicians (RCP), said:

At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Royal College of Physicians today, 189 attending fellows of the RCP voted by 80% to 16% (4% abstaining) to survey fellows and members for their views on the Health and Social Care Bill.

The Royal Free Hospital, in conjunction with the Royal College of Physicians (RCP), has launched a ‘call to action’ for people to sign the organ donor register.

Sir Richard Thompson, president of the Royal College of Physicians, said today that patients deserve better care in hospitals in the evenings and at weekends.  Introducing a new statement produced by the RCP's Council on doctors working hours, he said that many hospitals did not have eno

The RCP museum has a nationally significant collection of portraits of physicians spanning five centuries of history. Today each RCP president has a portrait painted at the end of his or her term of office.

Today sees the release of the autobiography of former Royal College of Physicians (RCP) president Lord Turnberg.

The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) has appointed Patricia Wright to the post of chief executive.

At a 1 day conference to commemorate 50 years since the publication in 1962 of its first ever report on smoking – Smoking and health – the Royal College of Physicians sets out a stark warning about the current and future dangers of smoking, and sets out the key public policy areas for ac