RCP president Professor Andrew Goddard reflects on what was – and wasn’t – announced in this week’s Budget.

The RCP has responded to a Health and Social Care Committee oral evidence session into workforce and resilience in the NHS and social care.

Royal College of Physicians (RCP) Cymru Wales has written today (22 February 2021) on behalf of the Welsh NHS Confederation health and social care policy forum to the first minister to call for a cross-government strategy for tackling wider health inequalities in Wales.

The RCP has welcomed publication of government plans for new NHS legislation in England, which would begin to be implemented in 2022 if passed into law.

Ahead of proposed legislative changes, Dr Jonathan Steel, RCP lead fellow for social care, discusses the importance of locally owned models of care in enabling integration.

Dr Sarah Clarke, RCP clinical vice president, sets out the RCP’s view on initial proposals for NHS legislation to deliver more integrated care.

The RCP is very sorry to hear the news that due to the pressures on the NHS from the current COVID pandemic, IMT interviews are cancelled.

RCP’s medical director of publishing, Professor Anton Emmanuel, has been appointed as interim senior clinical lead for the NHS’s workforce race equality standard (WRES) programme.

The #PhysicianCensus provides the three Royal Colleges of Physicians with essential data that we use to lobby for changes, such as additional consultant posts and medical student places.

RCP publishes its latest census of consultants across the UK.