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Artificial intelligence

Video

AI: The good, the bad and the beautifiable

In this video, a collection of perspectives and insights to accompany the FHJ edition are explored.

 

Blog

Fred Vivian: Increasing the use of data to guide decision-making

Fred Vivian looks at how transforming outpatient services is increasing the use of data to guide decision-making.

 

Video

Behind the paper - Moving beyond the AI sales pitch

This video dives into the Future Healthcare Journal’s paper "Moving Beyond the AI Sales Pitch.  The discussion focuses on how clinical AI should support and not replace clinicians.
a nurse or doctor is on a laptop, while there are patients in the background

Video

Barriers to AI

John Isherwood, a hepatobiliary surgeon, outlines a Clinical Senate project analysing barriers to implementing artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare.

 

Blog

From Dictation to Automation: The Rise of AI Scribes in Healthcare

Clinical documentation has become a mounting burden for physicians in today’s healthcare landscape. Dr Arup Sen has experienced first hand how administrative demands can impact daily practice and contribute to cognitive fatigue.

Upcoming webinars

Thursday 28 November 2024, 5.30pm

FHJ: Will artificial intelligence replace clinical decision making within our lifetimes?

In collaboration with the Future Healthcare Journal (FHJ), Medical Care – driving change is hosting a live debate on FHJ’s recent article: Will AI replace clinical decision making in our lifetimes?

Explore valuable insights from the panel of experts, including the RCP’s digital health clinical lead Dr Anne Kinderlerer and Professor Tom Solomon

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Book club

Dr Kathryn Mannix: Author of With the end in mind

Book club is hosted by first-year doctor, Dr Josephine Price, and the guest is Dr Kathryn Mannix, retired palliative care doctor and author of ‘With the end in mind’.

Discussing a range of topics from, what prompted her to write the book to how the public perceive and understand dying.

Campaigns

Campaign

Urgent and emergency care

Workforce is the main limiting factor in the NHS England’s national approach to 2023/24 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.

Organisational audit 2024

National Respiratory Audit Programme

The NRAP organisational audit report 2024 details information on the resourcing and organisation of asthma and COPD care in hospitals, and PR services in England and Wales.

The data collection for the audit ran from 26 February to 29 March 2024. The audit collected cohort data from 1 April 2022 to 31 March 2023 for admissions information, and here static data snapshots were required, for example number of beds, this was taken from September 2023.

Click here to see the full report

Full PDF report

Further Resources

Conference

Shaping the future of AI in healthcare: RCR and NHS Global Conference

The RCP is proud to partner with the RCR and NHS for the 1st Global AI Conference in 2025 to share clinical expertise and best practice and discuss the latest cutting-edge developments in this rapidly moving area of healthcare.

  • 3-4 February 2025
  • QEII Centre, London and Online
  • Up to 16 CPD credits

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Parkinson’s Excellence Network

New time critical medication resources for health professionals launched

Three new resources have been launched by the Parkinson’s Excellence Network.

These will support UK healthcare professionals in hospitals to improve the delivery of time critical medication for people with Parkinson’s

 

 

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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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