Initiatives

Quality improvement

Patient safety

Digital tranformation

Health inequalities

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.

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 to be taken.

A woman examines a shelf filled with various medicine bottles in a well-lit pharmacy setting.

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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Human Factors webinar series

Collaboration between Royal Pharmaceutical Society and Royal College of Physicians

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From pilots to ecosystem: Realising the full potential of ambient voice technology in the NHS

National round table on the impact and potential of ambient voice technologies

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The National Hip Fracture Database has launched it’s latest state of the nation report

‘Room for improvement: hip fracture care in 2024’. The report points out key challenges in care to help clinicians, managers, and policymakers in delivering better outcomes for frail and older patients across the UK, and examines how care in 2024 aligned to key patient goals.