Indeg James and Dr Sioned Richards work in the intermediate care team in Carmarthen in west Wales.

The RCP has responded to the shadow secretary of state for health and social care, Wes Streeting, following his speech at the Labour Party Conference.

The RCP has commented on the Conservative Party leadership debate aired by the BBC on Monday 25 July.

The RCP and the Getting It Right First Time programme (GIRFT) have published a statement which sets out how best to support patients who present with emergency and urgent medical care needs.

Dr Vincent Mak is a consultant physician in respiratory integrated care at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, and was clinical director of the London Respiratory Network.

The Royal College of Physicians has conducted the largest study to date of the quality of care given to  patients in the UK with COVID-19 to identify learnings from the pandemic.

Health Education England (HEE) has been commissioned by the Minister of State for Care, Helen Whately, to look at the future of the health and social care workforce.

A survey of local councils, carried out by the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS), has found that adult social services have faced sharply rising numbers of people coming forward for help.

The RCP has published a joint statement with Society for Acute Medicine in response to NHS England’s review of urgent and emergency care standards.

In this article the RCP’s experts give their thoughts and reactions on some of the recommendations of the recent report by NHS England’s Accelerated Access Collaborative and Beneficial Changes Network.