Popular publications

Acute Medicine: making it work for patients
Good delivery of acute medical care can mean the difference between life and death. This report aims to strengthen the specialty by setting out new conditions for practice.

Census of Consultant Physicians in the UK, 2004
The results of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the UK annual census of consultants. An invaluable source of reference for those planning services which include consultant physicians.

Clinical Academic Medicine: the way forward
This report brings together all fourteen Medical Royal Colleges, under the auspices of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, to consider how best to address challenges that are common to all the Colleges, and makes recommendations designed to increase the recruitment and retention of academic staff, by making an academic career path a more attractive and achievable option. Part 2 outlines specific clinical academic training and career pathways for each of the Medical Royal Colleges.

Consultant Physicians Working With Patients: the duties, responsibilities and practice of physicians in general medicine and the specialties
This report sets out recommendations for resources, time, manpower and facilities required to allow physicians to practice high quality medicine whilst emphasising the importance of working with patients, and of clinical engagement in service development and in the commissioning of healthcare services.

Going smoke-free: the medical case for clean air in the home, at work and in public places
This report makes a powerful case for the Government to enact comprehensive legislation to make all workplaces and other enclosed public places smoke-free.

How Hospitals Manage Heart Attacks
This report covers the performance of hospitals in England and Wales caring for people having heart attacks from April 2004-March 2005.

National Sentinel Stroke Audit 2004
The audit reports the performance of hospitals in England, Wales and Northern Ireland caring for people who have had a stroke.

Refugee doctors: opportunities for offering support
This survey reveals that 85% of refugee doctors living in the UK who identified medicine, or one of its subspecialties, as an area that they had previously worked in are not currently employed as physicians in the UK.

Storing up problems: the medical case for a slimmer nation
The report examines the complex social causes of the obesity 'epidemic' and recommends a range of public health measures, at national and local level, that are needed to address it. The report is addressed to government, local authorities, health professionals in all disciplines, educators, food manufacturers, retailers and the general public.

Stroke Guidelines
The National Clinical Guidelines for Stroke set out clearly and unequivocally the minimum basic standards for care based on graded evidence. Each aspect of stroke care covered includes main guidelines, extensive evidence on which they are based and suggestions for the development of local guidelines.

Patient guides

The clinical guidelines the College produces have associated booklets that are designed to help patients, carers and members of the public. They are written with clinical expertise but in plain English. These can be accessed at http://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/patientcarer.asp

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