Physician associate concerns spark emergency royal college meeting
The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) has announced an emergency general meeting to debate concerns around physician associates. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - January 29, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: Workforce Source Type: news
RCP view on healthcare sustainability and climate change
This position paper on health care sustainability and climate change sets out the Royal College of Physicians ' (RCP) recommendations to improve the sustainability of health care and reduce the health impacts of climate change. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - April 3, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
NHS crisis as top medic warns patients could face four-day waits in A&E
While severe flu outbreak and rising Covid cases are said to be fuelling the NHS crisis, the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and the Society for Acute Medicine said "these infections are not the primary cause of the problems". (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - January 4, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The geriatric medicine workforce
This report examines data collected by the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) on the consultant and higher specialty trainee geriatric medicine workforce. (Source: NHS Networks)
Source: NHS Networks - September 8, 2022 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
The NHS'Road to Recovery': Ethical guidance for endemic COVID-19, RCP
The Committee on Ethical Issues in Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) has developed guidance for NHS staff negotiating the NHS ' Road to Recovery ' as COVID-19 moves towards becoming an endemic disease. The COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated several changes and pauses to NHS services. In recent months, many vital NHS services have ' re-started ' and we have moved into a new phase, with services being ' reset ' . The government has named this the ' Road to Recovery ' of the NHS. It is an opportunity to implement new, evidenced-based ways of working to make the NHS more effective and resilient. (Source: Curren...
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - July 25, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Acute care toolkit for patients with a learning disability
An acute care toolkit has been launched by the Royal College of Physicians, providing advice for treating patients with a learning disability who present as acutely unwell. (Source: NHS Networks)
Source: NHS Networks - July 4, 2022 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Professor David Oliver wins RCP presidential election
David Oliver has been elected the 122nd president of the Royal College of Physicians (RCP). He will take over from current president, Dr Andrew Goddard, on 13 September 2022, and serve a 4-year term. (Source: NHS Networks)
Source: NHS Networks - April 12, 2022 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
One in 10 doctors off work with COVID-19 and other issues, poll reveals
One in 10 doctors are currently off work, a Royal College of Physicians (RCP) survey reveals - with rising COVID-19 cases exacerbating existing NHS staff absences. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - December 22, 2021 Category: Primary Care Tags: Workforce Source Type: news
ASH at 50: stubbing out smoking since 1971
This report finds that smoking has killed nearly 8 million people in the United Kingdom over the past 50 years, with an estimated 2 million more expected to die in the next 20 years without radical changes to smoking rates. The report has been published to mark the 50th anniversary of ASH (Action on Smoking and Health). The charity was established by the Royal College of Physicians in 1971 following their landmark 1962 report recommending urgent government action to curb the harms from smoking. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - December 15, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Caring for hospital patients with Covid-19: quality of care in England examined by case record review, Royal College of Physicians
This study recruited a sample and demographic representative of English hospitals ' experience of the Covid-19 pandemic. It gathered information about the quality of care delivered from 19 organisations that between them accounted for a population of almost 10.5 million people. The study reviewed 510 patient cases and their care to identify learnings from the pandemic. It concluded that overall care delivered was judged to have been adequate or better in 96.5 per cent of the patient cases. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - August 6, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
NHS faces shortage of doctors as rising number of medics want to work part-time, experts warn
A poll by the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) found 56 per cent of trainees were considering working only part time - sparking fears there will be too few. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - July 4, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Management of patients presenting to the Emergency Department/ Acute Medicine with symptoms, BMJ
Following a surge in patients attending A+E as a result of anxiety over safety of the AstraZeneca vaccine, the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, the Society for Acute Medicine, and the Royal College of Physicians have produced guidance for doctors seeing such patients. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - April 20, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
RCPE Calls for Decriminalising Drug Possession RCPE Calls for Decriminalising Drug Possession
A new report from the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (RCPE) advises that decriminalising drug possession.Medscape News UK (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - March 3, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Psychiatry News Source Type: news
Ethical dimensions of COVID-19 for frontline staff, RCP (updated 30th December 2020)
The Royal College of Physicians has published ethical guidance for frontline staff dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, supported by more than a dozen other health organisations. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - January 7, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
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Read news coverage of key developments from the Royal College of Physicians ' Virtual Annual Conference ' Medicine 2021 ' (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - January 7, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Family Medicine/Primary Care Conference Coverage Source Type: news
