A huge congratulations to the winners of our Excellence in Patient Care Awards 🏆 The winning projects are: 🔵#MoreThanAHospital – The Midland Metropolitan University Hospital 🔵National implementation of optical diagnosis in the English Bowel Cancer Screening Programme 🔵Pen switch: An initiative promoting sustainable insulin prescribing by switching to reusable pens in Devon 🔵Opt-out HIV testing in Croydon Emergency Department – saving lives, reducing healthcare inequalities and tackling stigma 🔵DigiBete: Implementing a self-management education solution for children and young people’s diabetes at scale 🔵A multi-year project enhancing resident doctor experience and productivity within a DGH medical department 🔵Pioneering cardiac digital care through virtual wards 🔵Patient-driven co-development of the Wales lung health check operational pilot to optimise equitable participation 🔵Embedding research into a clinical service to improve outcomes in children with inherited cardiac conditions 🔵Equality at work establishing a novel international medical graduate training academy for Gloucester hospitals Thank you to all those who attended and submitted work showcasing incredible initiatives improving patient care. You can still explore the shortlisted projects from this year: ow.ly/PCNr50WjEKu #EPCA2025

⁦@wesstreeting⁩ looking for solutions for the NHS, look no further just scale and spread. Time to innovate, connect and improve is the solution. medicalcare.rcp.ac.uk/excell…

Medical Care is building a resource hub to support the hospital to community shift. They’re looking for guidelines, examples of effective models across specialties and more. If you have relevant resources or know experts who can contribute, please email MedicalCare@rcp.ac.uk.

We’re inviting #RCPfellows to apply for two important clinical director roles in our Care Quality Improvement Directorate: - clinical director for patient safety and clinical standards - clinical director for improvement programmes Find out more: ow.ly/4Y9P50V0kgh

Discover the Uncertain recovery communication guide, created by @DrLM_Robinson and @DrAntoniaFS in collaboration with Medical Care. Offering advice for fostering honest, compassionate discussions with patients and families around uncertain recovery: ow.ly/FVkJ50TXTaB

Tim Farron, "The unpleasantness about this debate is only matched by the lack of proper information" #BBCQT "85% of refugees settle in the country next to where they come from" "The French take 3x more refugees than we do" "The Germans take 4x more refugees than we do" "If you put us back in the European Union, we are 19th in the league table when it comes to the number of refugees we take per capita" "Do we need deterrents? Yes. The best deterrents is competence. If we assess people when they arrive - and they are not illegal immigrants - they are people seeking asylum.. From Sudan.. Afghanistan.. Iran.. Syria.. 90% turn out to be genuine refugees" "If we have a competent government, and we haven't had one, let's see about this one.. And you assess them quickly.. And return the ones that are not refugees" "That is your deterrent" "Rwanda was a waste of money.. If they spent that money on case workers we could have processed these people, returned the ones that weren't refugees in a humane way, and let th eones who are genuine refugees, become British, pay their taxes, be part of our country, and we should be proud to admit them" Very well said @timfarron 👏

Great to be with colleagues across England at NHS IMPACT’s National Improvement Event in the spirit of “all learn, all share” A highlight to hear about Engineering Better Care work on frailty across Lancs & South Cumbria. #NHSImpact #Engineeringbettercare

All of my excellent colleagues in @acutemedicine and @GeriSoc who deliver acute medical and multidisciplinary care in the home and care home - work in a 'Hospital at Home' - not a virtual ward @AcutemedSarbc @SharjeelKiani1 @geris_lucy @emmavardy2 @GrahamEllis247

Joint statement from the UK Hospital at Home Society (H@H), the British Geriatrics Society (BGS) and the Royal College of Physicians (RCP): ‘Hospital at Home’ not ‘virtual wards’ | RCP London rcp.ac.uk/news-and-media/new…

#RCPfellows, are you passionate about great membership engagement, building networks and relationships? Do you have experience in implementing strategies and professional governance? The RCP are looking for a fellow with these qualities and skills to become our next registrar. Full details here: ow.ly/FCRl50T1UYq

In this week's learning session at Si on Wed, we will be learning about Systems Inquiry. This graphic illustrates why we need systems mapping in this context. Graphic taken from our guide to systems inquiry: tinyurl.com/24hosjcs Find the event here: eu1.hubs.ly/H0bNgwQ0

We love finding diamonds in the rough and this guide is an excellent example for people new to QI looking to complete a project or for experienced coaches upskilling others A succinct approach, harnessing the power of improvement science into a process ow.ly/ne7t50SX8Kg

We all need to learn how to provide hospital level care at home, including doctors! Great looking session! @UKHaHSoc

‘In many instances, celebrities, activists, and politicians convey false information evoking harm to individuals and society.’ Read Dr @josephahill’s blog for Medical Care on the dangers of medical misinformation: ow.ly/a0wn50SQ7c2

Join our vibrant and growing editorial board! Vacancies for #socialcare professionals as well as consultants in #rheumatology #gastroenterology #oncology So many benefits... Find out more and apply by 29 September! rcp.ac.uk/membership/college…

Read our recently published article on “Life as a chief of medicine—Taking future hospital guidance to the front line” by @BenMearns who shares his experience in this role. sciencedirect.com/science/ar…

🗨️…developed by clinicians for clinicians, helping to cut through the noise of other data tools… Dr Adrian Hopper (@hopperah) on our NEW SAMIT 75 tab, offering site-level, up-to-date emergency medical pathway data specific to frail patients Seen it yet? bit.ly/3rUA9QU

@biainfection @RCPhysicians @BASHH_UK please let’s follow the community and use our language and choose our words carefully- they have impact

On Thursday 8 August at 1pm join @Sander_vdLinden, @DrLucyDouglas and RCP Patient and Carer Network member, Julia Ellis, for the Medical Care live webinar ‘Tackling misinformation in medicine’. Book your place: ow.ly/4yMw50SF4SZ

We have encouraged Lord Ara Darzi's review to focus on implementing a system-level, evidence-based approach to the care of older people living with #frailty which could transform service delivery across @NHSEngland. bgs.org.uk/policy-and-media/…