A summary of the RCP policy position and work around patient safety.

Flexible portfolio training is a new ST3 training scheme designed to meet the demand for flexible working in higher specialty training.

This project will develop standard headings and content definitions for referral communications from GPs to hospitals.

The RCP's Health Informatics Unit is working on behalf of the PRSB to carry out the Integrated Urgent Care project in order to define information recording and sharing requirements of integrated urgent care services.

By bringing together both patients and doctors, the RCP aims to provide support and practical guidance to doctors to help improve and embed person-centred care.

Clinicians, public health specialists and researchers have developed draft information standards for recording alcohol and tobacco use in electronic health records.

The Health Informatics Unit's (HIU) 'Document naming standard' project will ensure digital health records are appropriately named for safe and effective retrieval within the health and social setting, as well as their transfer across all care settings.

This RCP Health Informatics Unit project will develop standards for the clinical content and structure of maternity records and to ensure that this information can be easily shared amongst healthcare professionals an

This Health Informatics Unit project aimed to improve the quality of discharge summaries by defining and responding to junior doctor learning needs in this area.