RCP Improvement

Supporting our members and their teams to improve healthcare together

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Welcome to RCP Improvement.  Previously Medical Care - driving change

Medical Care – driving change is a collaborative resource hub to support clinicians and their teams to develop and deliver sustainable improvement, launching on 30 March at Medicine 2023 and online.

Medical Care will drive change by providing access to a wide range of inspiring and accessible resources on health service improvement and highlighting new and innovative practices to support clinicians to improve healthcare at a local, national and global level.

Improvement Highlights

Welcome to our Improvement Highlights page. Here you will find our latest improvement news, links to our most recent learning and insight articles and who has just joined our improvement community. We will also be sharing our latest project updates.

Upcoming events and webinars

RCP members can attend many of our webinars and other events for free! Join the RCP today to benefit from this and our other great offers.

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Conference

Conversations with Professor Julian Redhead (Don't delete - Test event)

Join us for an interactive follow-up to our recent Improvement Community session, continuing the conversation on urgent and emergency care recovery. Professor Julian Redhead will return to share further insights, and attendees will have the opportunity to engage in open discussion, share experiences, and connect with peers. In our last session, we explored key themes including: Using ED data to drive improvement Resident doctor continuity and training Nurse-led discharges Innovations to reduce diagnostic overuse Concerns around corridor care This session will build on those conversations and help shape ongoing improvement work.

12-11 November 2026
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Patient safety
Webinar

Barriers and breakthroughs: Supporting improvement at every level

Join us for an open, interactive session designed to explore what our improvement community members need when they’re just starting out, whether you're an undergraduate, resident, consultant, or part of a non-clinical team. Together, we’ll: Share experiences and challenges faced Outline the specific needs of different groups Begin shaping practical, inclusive resources that help people take their first steps in improvement work. This is a space for honest conversation, collaboration, and co-design. We want to hear from you, whether you're a consultant, doctor, or undergrad medical student. What prevents you from doing great improvement work at your trust? Let’s talk about it. Let’s build something better, together.

1 credits
1 hour
15-22 October 2025
Online
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Who we are

Discover our story, our mission, and the values that drive everything we do.

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RCP Improvement community

Royal College of Physicians are launching the Medical Care - driving change improvement community and we’re keen for you to be part of it

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Excellence in Patient Care Awards

We are thrilled to be relaunching the awards to recognise the excellent innovative work of our members and fellows to improve patient care through education, policy, clinical practice and research projects globally

Excellent in Patient Care Awards
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