Dr Omar Mustafa has been appointed as the new RCP Global vice president. He takes over from Dr Mumtaz Patel, who began her new role as senior censor and vice president for education and training in August.

RCP Global vice president Dr Mumtaz Patel and her team are delighted to be welcoming three new associate global directors (AGDs).

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

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.

 This article is one of a short series looking at how the RCP has worked with, for and on behalf of its fellows and members during the pandemic.

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.

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.

The RCP has welcomed publication of government plans for new NHS legislation in England, which would begin to be implemented in 2022 if passed into law.

Ahead of proposed legislative changes, Dr Jonathan Steel, RCP lead fellow for social care, discusses the importance of locally owned models of care in enabling integration.