Professor Simon Maxwell outlines the Prescribing Safety Assessment, designed to ensure that new graduates have the knowledge and skills to safely prescribe and supervise medicines in modern healthcare.

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

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.

Anton Emmanuel has been appointed to oversee the RCP’s three publications.

The RCP has appointed Dr Abdul-Majeed Salmasi to the post of senior examiner for PACES examinations. 

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. 

The RCP is looking to recruit a new senior examiner (PACES) to continue Dr Tanzeem Raza's good work.

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 invites eligible fellows to nominate candidates for the 2019 RCP election of its vice president for Wales - to serve from 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2022.

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.