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. 

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.

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. 

The RCP is taking the unusual step of writing to all MPs asking them to vote against the UK leaving the EU without an agreement, to protect patients.

The RCP believes current NHS overseas visitor charging regulations are having a direct impact on individual health and have potential implications for public health.

The CQC's never events report should 'sit side by side' with the patient safety strategy for the NHS, says Dr John Dean, RCP clinical director for quality improvement and patient safety.

The RCP welcomes the announcement by the secretary of state for health and social care, Matt Hancock MP, that the government will strengthen protection for NHS whistleblowers.

The RCP's latest report, Talking about dying: How to begin honest conversations about what lies ahead, explores the reasons that doctors and other healthcare professionals find it hard to talk to patients about dying.

Hospitals are using a standardised review approach to learn from adult acute deaths and improve patient care, a landmark report released by the RCP reveals today.

In new recommendations for the use of AI to support doctors, the RCP has called on the medical profession to embrace the technology, but to make sure that it works for patients.