Iona Price, chair of the RCP’s Falls and Fragility Fractures Audit Programme (FFFAP) Patient Panel, reflects on why she joined the RCP’s Patient and Carer Network. 

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.

Medicine 2020, the RCP’s sixth annual conference, has officially been launched and will take place 23–24 April 2020 at The ICC, Birmingham.

RCP president Professor Andrew Goddard has asked that the word burnout in relation to doctors be stopped as it implies a failure of the individual. 

The RCP is taking the unusual step of writing to all MPs asking them to vote against the UK leaving the EU without an agreement, to protect patients.

The RCP believes current NHS overseas visitor charging regulations are having a direct impact on individual health and have potential implications for public health.

The CQC's never events report should 'sit side by side' with the patient safety strategy for the NHS, says Dr John Dean, RCP clinical director for quality improvement and patient safety.

How does treating the health of the population provide value in healthcare? Dr Chris Packham, associate medical director of Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, examines the changing attitude to population health in the NHS and how it needs to improve.

The RCP welcomes the announcement by the secretary of state for health and social care, Matt Hancock MP, that the government will strengthen protection for NHS whistleblowers.

John Appleby, chief economist of the Nuffield Trust, examines how value is defined in healthcare and how it impacts everyday services.