Liverpool’s new Mayor Joanne Anderson and the City Region’s Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram will join RCP president Andrew Goddard at the opening today of one of the world’s healthiest buildings – The Spine.

A new report from the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) recommends that all smokers be provided, routinely and on an opt-out basis, with smoking cessation treatment by the NHS.

The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) is supporting a campaign launched today to make tobacco manufacturers pay for measures needed to end smoking.

RCP at The Spine reached another milestone on Tuesday 21 January when Morgan Sindall Construction held a traditional topping out ceremony to mark reaching the top of the building.

One of the healthiest buildings in the world will open in Liverpool in 2021. The Spine, a new home for the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) in partnership with Liverpool City Council, is designed to the internationally renowned WELL standard* to increase the health and wellbeing of people who wo

Professor Cheng-Hock Toh is the RCP’s academic vice president and the lead officer for RCP at The Spine. Originally from Malaysia, and having lived and worked in Liverpool for over 20 years, here he describes his feelings for Liverpool and its people.

A cross-party group of MPs have today released Delivering the vision of a ‘Smokefree Generation’, a report outlining a number of measures aimed at reducing smoking prevalence in the UK population to 5% or below.  

Measures to offer every smoker admitted to hospital help to quit, as recommended by the RCP in a 2018 report, will be introduced as part of the NHS Long Term Plan.

The RCP welcomes the release of the Taskforce for Lung Health's 5-year plan to improve the UK’s lung health and the lives of people living with lung disease.

Presidents of the medical royal colleges, the chair of council of the RCGP, and over 800 doctors, health professionals and academics are calling on NHS England to ensure that tobacco dependence treatment is provided for every smoker cared for by the NHS, as part of the long-term plan.