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Patient flow

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Webinar

The admissions dilemma: enhancing patient flow

This webinar explores key strategies for improving hospital flow, focusing on the principles of early senior decision-making and their impact on both patient safety and hospital capacity.

Webinar

Webinar: Hospital at home or virtual wards?

This webinar with Professor Dan Lasserson, Charlotte Lynch and Dr Geraint Lewis discuss the evidence supporting the efficacy and safety of virtual ward and hospital at home models.

Blog

Helena Clements: Virtual wards

Helena Clements is collaborating with the Midlands clinical senate, The Royal College of Paediatricians and Child Health (RCPCH) to raise the climate agenda and pivotal role of clinicians in achieving Net Zero NHS by 2040.

Excellence in Patient Care Awards 2025

We are thrilled to be relaunching the awards to recognise the excellent innovative work of our members and fellows to improve patient care through education, policy, clinical practice and research projects globally.

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Medical Care - driving change improvement community

Royal College of Physicians are launching the Medical Care - driving change improvement community and we’re keen for you to be part of it.

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Upcoming webinars

Wednesday 2 April 2025: 5:30pm - 6:30pm.

Tackling corridor care

Join the RCP, Royal College of Nursing (RCN), Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM), and Healthwatch for a vital discussion on the impact of corridor care and how to address it. Experts will share real-world experiences, discuss the systemic causes of corridor care, and explore practical solutions to improve patient safety and hospital capacity.

This webinar will explore the findings of the survey, share real-world experiences from healthcare professionals, and discuss practical solutions to improve patient safety and hospital capacity. Attendees will have the opportunity to put their questions directly to senior royal college representatives, making this a key opportunity to contribute to the conversation on change.

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Tuesday 29 April 2025: 1:30pm

Bridging the gap: Tackling health inequalities in the NHS

This webinar will explore how healthcare leaders can drive meaningful and lasting change in health inequalities.

This session will highlight key recommendations from the RCP’s publication, Bridging the gap: A Guide to Making Health Inequalities a Strategic Priority for NHS Leaders, offering practical steps to embed health equity in organisational strategy.

Attendees will also hear real-world case studies from Leicester University Hospitals and the Renal Association, showcasing impactful initiatives to address disparities in care, particularly within renal health.

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Featured

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RCP have launched the new toolkit. Acute care toolkit: 17 Managing multiple medications

The traditional model of healthcare encourages prescribing following single disease guidelines without consideration of the effect of concurrent conditions or alternatives to medicines.

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Book Club

The RCP Medical Care Book Club hosts discussions with authors on healthcare-related topics.

Led by Dr. Josephina Price, past guests include: Dr. Kathryn Mannix (With the End in Mind), Dr. Lucy Pollock (The Book About Getting Older), and Professor Sander van der Linden (Foolproof), covering end-of-life care, ageing, and misinformation in healthcare.

Book club

Campaigns

Campaign

Urgent and emergency care

Workforce is the main limiting factor in the NHS England’s national approach to 2024/25 winter planning. The RCP believes hospitals can maximise their impact through four evidence based interventions.

Campaign

Transforming outpatient care

Providing care to ‘outpatients’ is central to specialty medicine and the RCP has a key role in the development and improvement of these services. The RCP is setting out new ambitions for outpatient care and the actions we need to take to deliver real change.

Resources

Video

COLO-PREVENT: Advancing Colorectal Cancer Prevention

Dr Frankie Fan introduces his work in colorectal cancer prevention and the COLO-PREVENT trial.

COLO-PREVENT is a randomised platform trial embedded within the bowel cancer screening program, currently active at 19 sites with plans to expand to 60. Dr. Fan places emphasis on the need for new trial sites and highlights the role of social media outreach in engaging potential partners.

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Recently announced webinar

Parkinson’s Excellence Network

Join the recently announced webinar by Parkinson's Excellent Network.

For an engaging virtual webinar led by expert speakers. Gain insights into managing time-critical Parkinson’s medication, explore benchmarking strategies, and identify actionable steps. Don't miss this opportunity to enhance your knowledge and discover valuable resources tailored for healthcare professionals.

A group of healthcare professionals in a clinical setting, gathered around a table with laptops and medical documents. They are engaged in discussion, with one person pointing to a laptop screen and others looking on attentively. All are wearing professional attire, some with stethoscopes, indicating a medical or healthcare context

A series of short videos

The British Thoracic Society (BTS) on chronic cough in adults

The British Thoracic Society (BTS) recently release its clinical statement on chronic cough in adults, which includes a number of clinical practice points of interests to health professionals working in both primary and secondary care.

In this series of short videos, Medical Care – driving change are joined by clinicians and a patient. They discuss chronic cough; its causes, presentation, solutions, and the future.

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