Enforced waiting list targets appear to have led to a dramatic increase in the number of new patients treated within neurology departments, according to a consultant nephrologist writing in the latest edition of the journal Clinical Medicine, published by the Royal College of Physicians. |  |
Minimising long-term sickness and matching unmet needs in occupational health will be on the agenda next week at the Faculty of Occupational Medicine (FOM) conference, along with visions for the future laid out by Dame Carol Black, National Director for Health and Work. | |
National Allergy Strategy Group calls for improved services for those with severe allergy after tragic death of young father. | |
RCP responds to new report warning that hospitals aren’t yet ready to implement the 48 hour per week European Working Time Directive. | |
NHS services for people with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
(COPD) have improved over the past five years but the quality of services offered varies considerably and often falls short of national quality standards. | |
Commenting on a new report by the University of Manchester that finds a direct link between alcohol sponsorship in the sports industry and hazardous drinking among sportspeople. | |
The Royal College of Physicians has set up a working party on nutrition and oral feeding difficulties, particularly at the end of life. | |
Commenting on today's NCEPOD report on chemotherapy services for patients. | |
The National Audit Office report on reducing alcohol harm makes sobering reading. It is clear that the NHS needs to urgently ‘up its game’ both in investing in alcohol services and in having sensible strategies across primary and secondary care to make sure the investment is well spent. | |
For the first time, standards for patient records have been developed by the Royal College of Physicians, in partnership with NHS Connecting for Health, and agreed by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, representing the whole medical profession. | |
In this year's Harveian Oration*, delivered at the Royal College of Physicians, Professor Sir Michael Rawlins, Chair of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, argues that we need a new approach to analysing clinical evidence. | |
Three of Britain's leading experts in alcohol policy and treatments say that strong public policy measures on price and availability of alcohol would be far more successful than clinical treatments or current Government initiatives in reducing alcohol-related harm. | |
Healthcare inequalities may partly be due healthcare professionals'
ignorance of ethnic minority healthcare needs, according to an article in the latest edition of Clinical Medicine, published by the Royal College of Physicians. | |
Results from the 2007 Census of Consultant Physicians from the Federation of Royal Colleges of Physicians of the UK shows that the Federation's vision of delivering a consultant-led acute medicine service has evolved spectacularly over the last few years. | |
An RCP survey of 40 patients in England who had attended a falls clinic following a fall shows that while patients felt the clinics had helped them, they were not always sure about the purpose of the clinic and how it related to their own needs. | |
There has been a major improvement in the organisation of stroke care over the last two years, according to the latest National Sentinel Organisational Audit of Stroke. | |
A new report issued today by the Royal College of Physicians says that if the Government was prepared to take far more radical measures to combat smoking, we could practically eradicate smoking in Britain by 2025. | |
Specialist diabetes services are being compromised because consultants who specialise in diabetes are spending more time supporting acute-general internal medicine services. | |
All patients suspected of having a stroke should be admitted as quickly as possible to an acute stroke unit, either from the community or by being transferred from A&E. | |
The Royal College of Physicians and the Alcohol Health Alliance have welcomed the Government's proposals for tougher control on the drinks industry and the publication of evidence about the serious threat to health posed by alcohol. | |