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

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.

The RCP’s 'NHS reality check' reports give over 2,100 doctors and NHS teams, who are overwhelmed by rising levels of demand in hospitals, a voice on how their profession is coping. 

The NHS relies on teams to design, deliver and develop world-class patient care. Effective team-working reduces medical errors, increases patient safety and improves patient mortality rates. Crucially, it also leads to reduced stress and higher job satisfaction.

Integrated care is seamless, coordinated and locally designed care that puts patients at the centre of service organisation, considers their needs in a holistic way, and develops high quality services that meet these needs in settings that are accessible and convenient for patients. 

Patient safety is the prevention of errors and adverse effects associated with healthcare.

The National Mortality Case Record Review Programme, which ended on 30 June 2019, implemented a standardised methodology to review care received by patients who had died.

The Future Hospital development sites were selected to put the principles of the future hospital into practice.