We all have a duty to tackle global heating. Professor Donal O’Donoghue, RCP registrar, discusses the responsibility of the health service, the NHS Net Zero report, and what we can do to help.
The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) and its caterer CH&Co have partnered with bio-bean, the world's largest recycler of spent coffee grounds, to transform its 3,500 kg of waste coffee grounds a year into sustainable bio-products.
Professor Andrew Goddard, president of the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) responds to the Greener NHS campaign launched today to help tackle the climate ‘health emergency’.
As I was sitting down to write this column, many homes — including mine — were in the midst of school exam results season and the highs and lows that go along with it. Tensions were high in the Goddard household, and so we were grateful for the chance to take a break to sunny Wales.
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.
Following the publication of the RCP report 'Outpatients: the future', Professor Stephen Powis argues that the traditional model of outpatient care is no longer fit for purpose.