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.

Featured

The release of our new Modern outpatient care guide

We have released a new Modern outpatient care guide which stresses the need to make planned, specialist care pathways more sustainable for the future.

Explore our blog and access the PDF below.
Dr Theresa Barnes on the release of our new Modern outpatient care guide
Modern outpatient care - Using resources to add value

News

An update on our work

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.

Resource

Outpatient services: a clinical and operational improvement guide

This improvement guide supports clinical and operational teams to improve the outpatient care provided to patients. 

Blog

Anne Kinderlerer: Can digital solutions really fix outpatient care?

Changing the way we work is only possible with digital clinical systems that are designed to make tasks easier to complete.

Blogs and Case Studies

Case studies

Explore outpatient care improvement projects.

Case studies

Blogs

Expert opinion on the future of outpatient care.

Blogs

Outpatient Summits

There have been four summits addressing different aspects of outpatient care.

Outpatient summits

Further Resources

Modern outpatient care: Principles and practice for patient-centred outpatient care
Clinically-led Specialty Outpatient Guidance
Rebuilding the NHS Resetting outpatient services for the 21st century in the context of COVID-19
Engineering Better Outpatient Services
General practice and secondary care: Working better together
Next steps for integrating primary care: Fuller stocktake report
The radical reform that’s been staring the NHS in the face
Patient-initiated follow-up: does it work, why it matters, and can it help the NHS recover?
NHSE eyecare pathway transformation - the story so far
Kindness, reasonable adjustments and consistency needed across outpatients
Strategy for the Design of Integrated Outpatient Services 2016-2020
The Patients Association: Report on feedback in Patient Panel Two
Personalising care and offering patients choice
Kindness, reasonable adjustments and consistency needed across outpatients
What patients want from an outpatient strategy