29 NOVEMBER 2023
Helena Clements: RCPCH officer for climate change
The post is for 2 years and my manifesto is to embed climate action in every part of the college over this time.
04 OCTOBER 2023
NHS: The Targeted Lung Health Check
The TLHC programme aims to find lung cancer early, sometimes before symptoms present.
02 OCTOBER 2023
Richard Berman: traditional palliative care no longer serves the cancer population
Patients are not just living for longer. They are, in many cases, now living with cancer for significant periods of time.
02 October 2023
Julie Want and Yuki Kano: Enhanced Supportive Care at the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
Our aim is to support patients early in their cancer journey.
Dan Monnery: the nature of cancer care is changing
People with incurable cancer are achieving much longer survival due to improved treatments and earlier diagnoses.
15 September 2023
Andrew Rochford: The importance of World Patient Safety Day
More than 50% of harm is preventable, you may be right to ask whether ‘first, do no harm’ is at the centre of clinical practice?
13 September 2023
Eddie Kinsella: Why patient safety must be special every day
Patient-centred care requires effective engagement and communication between clinician and patient.
6 SEPTEMBER 2023
Benjamin Ellis: Chronic pain: working beyond our walls
There is something uniquely special about starting the clinical journey with a baby or small child and their parents as we come to understand their condition and its implications.
06 september 2023
Helena Clements: Transition of young people with complex disability to adult services
There is something uniquely special about starting the clinical journey with a baby or small child and their parents.
01 August 2023
Helena Clements: Virtual wards - part of the net zero approach
My vision of the future will include empty beds, fewer respiratory and diabetes related diseases, a culture of healthier lives and good deaths in the right place.
26 July 2023
Dr Theresa Barnes: Reflections from outpatients summits 2 and 3
Common themes have emerged from outpatient summits two and three including communication, personalised care, integration, workforce and wellbeing.
20 July 2023
A patient voice: Digital transformation must start with us
PCN respresentative Hayley Hall emphasises the importance and benefit of engaging patients early on in the digital transformation process.
19 June 2023
Dr Kavita Aggarwal: What does the future look like for planned specialist care delivery?
Patients having access to multiple specialists in one appointment in a community setting could help integrate care for patients and increase clinical efficiency.
12 July 2023
Jemma Kwint: How can digital technology help reduce staff pressures and improve care?
Examples of NIHR research that demonstrate how digital technology could improve care while reducing the demands on NHS staff.
26 April 2023
Digital health systems: Improving care or contributing to burnout?
RCP digital health clinical lead Dr Anne Kinderlerer explores how easily we adapt to new digital systems.
Dr Theresa Barnes: Imagining new pathways of outpatient care
RCP outpatients clinical lead Dr Theresa Barnes highlights some of the key themes of the first outpatient care summit.
09 June 2023
Dr Vin Diwakar: What does the future of outpatients look like?
Everyone has experienced outpatient services at some point and we’ve all had ideas about how our outpatient service could be improved.
23 March 2023
Helena Clements: The climate crisis is a health crisis!
We need a new vison for health with capacity for current pressures. However, this must work in tandem with targeted resources for public health.
31 May 2023
Helena Clements: Clean Air Day
The medical harms of air pollution are well documented. Why don’t we all shout out for children - and everybody - leave our high-end vehicles at home on the 15th and make some noise about this.
24 March 2023
Ruw Abeyratne: Health Inequality: Why my business is your business
Health inequalities cost the NHS an estimated a year in hospital episodes alone. The broader economic cost is several multiples greater.
22 March 2023
Tracey Herlihey: The Patient Safety Incident Response Framework
The Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) sets out a new approach to achieving effective learning and improvement following patient safety incidents.
Sarah Tilsed: Partnering with patients in the development of the outpatient strategy
The head of patient partnership at the Patients Association on why it's important that patients feed into the design and delivery of the service.
09 May 2023
Ruw Abeyratne: Health Equality: it starts with self-compassion
Health inequalities are avoidable differences in health between different groups of the population. If health inequalities are avoidable, are they not also deeply unjust?
30 March 2023
We are your voice
Medical Care - driving change editor-in-chief, Dr Dan Smith, a respiratory consultant at Sherwood Forest hospital, welcomes users to the site, thanks our contributors and invites you to get involved.
Alice Joy: Sustainability is good for patients
Alice Joy from the Patient and Carer Network (PCN) discusses the complex subject of sustainability and how it's good for patients.
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