The RCP has a long history of campaigning to ensure that physicians are heard in government, and recent work with MPs continues to ensure doctors' voices are heard at the highest level.
In 2019 the RCP continued its history of work on improving population health with the establishment of an advisory group on reducing inequalities in health and wellbeing.
The Royal College of Physicians library holds more than 100 volumes stolen from John Dee during his lifetime, the largest single collection of Dee’s books in the world.
Rare books from the RCP library by Podmore illustrate the history of spiritualism and investigations into spiritualism during the 19th century, including the work of Daniel Dunglas Home, Henry Slade, and others.
Baron Foster of Thames Bank to lead speaker line-up at 50th anniversary celebration marking official opening of Sir Denys Lasdun’s Royal College of Physicians.
A new trail in the RCP garden of medicinal plants leads visitors around plants and flowers grown by the 17th-century physician and collector Sir Thomas Browne.
The RCP museum has a nationally significant collection of portraits of physicians spanning five centuries of history. Today each RCP president has a portrait painted at the end of his or her term of office.
