The RCP this week submitted comments to an EU consultation on Ireland's proposed cancer warning label on alcohol bottles and cans, which highlights the direct link between alcohol and cancer.
Every so often hospital staff see patients literally chained to another person for much or all of their appointment. Radhika Holmström asks is this how prisoners’ healthcare is arranged, and how they get access to hospital?
Professor David Oliver discusses clinical resourcing in the NHS, and how the Royal College of Physicians' (RCP's) new Our Future Health programme of events, activities and publications are being organised to provide a forum for debate.
In an article from February's issue of Commentary magazine, Simon Bottery from The King's Fund explains why the social care system can't keep pace with increasing pressure.
A new report from the RCP has found that while more fracture patients are receiving bone health checks, a greater standard of care for all ‘fragility’ fracture patients is required.
The Royal College of Physicians' (RCP's) National Audit for Inpatient Falls (NAIF) report 2017 shows that although the prevention of inpatient falls across hospitals in England and Wales has improved slightly, many patients are not receiving the required assessments which can help prevent falls in hospitals.
The National Hip Fracture Database's (NHFD's) ninth annual report shows that while more patients are receiving early surgery and surviving a hip fracture, two in five are not receiving all of the recommended elements of a hip fracture programme that represent ‘best practice’.
Prior to speaking at the RCP's Acute and general medicine conference in October, Professor David Oliver writes about his passion for geriatric medicine.
