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.

In the last post of the week-long series, Dr Emma Vaux talks about her professional role models for International Women's Day 2019. 

As part of a week-long focus on women in medicine for International Women's Day, medical historian Dr Kristin Hussey asks whether it was possible to be a suffragette and pursue a medical career.

To celebrate International Women's Day 2019, Dr Thinn Thinn Hlaing highlights the woman who inspired her most, Burmese politician and diplomat Daw Khin Kyi.

As part of our week-long International Women's Day series, Professor Yook-Chin Chia reflects on her relationship with Dr Aishah Ong, the inspiration for her career in medicine. 

In the lead up to International Women's Day 2019, Ghanaian doctor, lecturer and advocate, Dr Dzifa Dey, celebrates the strength and resilience of ordinary African women.   

As part of a week-long series of blogs celebrating International Women's Day 2019, Professor Aye Aye Chit reminisces about her former teacher and medical inspiration, Professor Myint Myint Aye.  

In today's International Women's Day blog, former RCP president Professor Jane Dacre discusses her inspirational role model Professor Dame Parveen Kumar and her 'extraordinary' contribution to medicine.