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? 

After the allocation of 1,000 new medical school places, Professor Jane Dacre considers workforce planning challenges facing the profession and the potential solutions available to create a sustainable workforce.

The RCP calls on European policy makers to support and strengthen the European Commission's new EU One Health Action Plan against Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) in joint statement.

Dr Katy Islip, a chief registrar and specialty trainee in acute and general internal medicine, explains how individualising care benefits patients and doctors.

RCP president Professor Jane Dacre wrote an open letter to The Guardian highlighting safety issues surrounding the ongoing staff shortages in the NHS.

The RCP, along with the BMA and other royal colleges, have signed a joint letter to UK prime minister Theresa May calling for the government to retain the provisions of the Working Time Regulations (WTR) directive in law when we leave the European Union.

Dr Sue Crossland, consultant acute physician, explains the concept of the 'reverse ward round', and how it helps ensure good quality teaching.

Transfer of Care is a digital transformation project which aims to improve the quality of information sent to GPs when patients are discharged from hospital.

RCP president Professor Jane Dacre blogs about the 2017 budget and its implications for the NHS. 

The RCP will be represented at the latest 'Value of Health: Improving Outcomes’ event in Brussels, on reducing low-value care and health outcomes measurement.