Discovering she was autistic helped make sense of everything for Dr Mary Doherty (@autisticdoctor). She describes the joys of building a community of autistic doctors.

The Royal College of Physicians’ Accreditation unit, the National COPD Audit Programme, and the British Thoracic Society’s Pulmonary Rehabilitation Quality Improvement Advisory Group are inviting comment on their draft Pulmonary Rehabilitation Accreditation Standards.

Our first reaction to the publication of ‘Advancing our health – prevention in the 2020s’ is disappointment, both with the way in which the consultation was launched and with the content of the document.

Despite repeated calls from the public health profession for statutory regulation of all public health specialists to ensure public protection, government is choosing dogma over public protection, warn UK Faculty of Public Health and the Royal College of Physicians.

In the UK today social disadvantage results in vast gaps in health and mortality, but these inequalities are not inevitable.

The RCP has produced a resource in collaboration with the Society of Acute Medicine to support hospital doctors in improving the care and choices provided to people at the end of their life.