Response to the General Medical Council’s report, The State of medical education and practice: workforce report 2023, by Dr Sarah Clarke, president of the Royal College of Physicians.

Response to the appointment of the new secretary of state for health and social care by Dr Sarah Clarke, president of the Royal College of Physicians.

This morning the Health Foundation issued new analysis showing projected waiting lists in different future scenarios.

The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) had a strong presence at the 2023 party conferences, engaging with sector stakeholders and key decision makers from the Liberal Democrats, Conservatives, Labour and Plaid Cymru.

RCP president Dr Sarah Clarke this week drew attention to the pressing issues facing the NHS workforce at the 2023 Labour party conference.

The Royal College of Physicians has responded to Labour's plans to cut waiting lists through measures including investing an extra £1.1 billion to provide NHS staff overtime to work evening and weekend shifts to carry out procedures. 

Steve Barclay, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, gave a speech earlier today at the Conservative party conference. Here is our response.

The NHS is on life support. The GMC’s National Training Survey found that two thirds of trainees are at high or moderate risk of burnout and the recent RCP census confirmed the large number of doctors grappling with overwhelming service demand and staffing shortages.

The RCP has today published the headline findings from the 2022 UK census of specialty and associate specialist (SAS) physicians.

The Royal College of Physicians (RCP), Society for Acute Medicine (SAM), British Thoracic Society (BTS) and British Geriatrics Society (BGS) have responded to NHS England’s national approach to 2023/24 winter planning.