RCP president Professor Andrew Goddard has been appointed to the NHS' new NHS Assembly, a collaborative forum that will support delivery of the NHS Long Term Plan.
Dr John Dean, clinical director for quality improvement and patient safety, explains why in the NHS Long Term Plan, patient safety is everyone’s responsibility.
RCP vice president (education and training) Dr Emma Vaux discusses how the NHS Long Term Plan will help us train, educate, support and retain our workforce.
The RCP is calling for obesity to urgently be recognised as a disease by government and the broader health sector, and warning that until this happens its prevalence is unlikely to be reduced.
Every so often hospital staff see patients literally chained to another person for much or all of their appointment. Radhika Holmström asks is this how prisoners’ healthcare is arranged, and how they get access to hospital?
