Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Matt Hancock, today introduced the NHS Long Term Plan Funding Bill to Parliament.

Over 50% of senior doctor jobs in Kent, Surrey and Sussex are unfilled, according to data from the Royal College of Physicians (RCP).

The government must put patient safety at the heart of the continued Brexit negotiations and invest in the health and care workforce, public health and prevention, a capital programme and social care provision.

RCP president, Professor Andrew Goddard, responds to Nuffield Trust's report revealing that one in four hospital staff were born outside the UK.

RCP president, Professor Andrew Goddard, responds to NHS England’s in-year solution to the current pension tax charges issue.

Professor Andrew Goddard, president of the Royal College of Physicians said: “It is absolutely right that key access standards are reviewed periodically to check how effective they are for patients.

The Royal College of Physicians (RCP), along with seven other medical royal colleges and homeless charities, has called on the Government to urgently address the needs of homeless people treated in the NHS.

NHS England and NHS Improvement have launched a new strategy on patient safety today. The strategy aims to be the ‘golden thread’ running through healthcare and sets out what the NHS will do to continuously improve patient safety.

The RCP welcomes the NHS Long Term Plan's focus on changing models of working but stresses the need to increase medical school places to alleviate burnout rate among doctors. 

Measures to offer every smoker admitted to hospital help to quit, as recommended by the RCP in a 2018 report, will be introduced as part of the NHS Long Term Plan.