Urgent update, immediate priorities and recommendations from the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM), Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), Royal College of Physicians (RCP), Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych) and the Society for Acute Medicine (SAM).

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.

The RCP has responded to the Migration Advisory Committee’s (MAC’s) annual report in which it recommends making care workers immediately eligible for the Health and Care Worker Visa and placing the occupation on the Shortage Occupation List.

The RCP is looking to recruit a new post holder into this position.

The RCP has set out principles against which it will assess any proposals to create more flexible routes to studying medicine and becoming a doctor. 

The RCP is pleased to announce the appointment of Jade Moore to the role of Senior Examiner (Physician Associates)

The RCP has produced a resource in collaboration with the Society of Acute Medicine to support hospital doctors in improving the care and choices provided to people at the end of their life.

The RCP is looking to recruit a new post holder into this position.

The Royal College of Physicians has been involved in producing new enhanced care guidance from the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine (FCIM). 

The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) has appointed Dr Alastair Gilmore and Dr Sonia Panchal as its deputy registrars following a competitive appointment process for these new roles.