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Press office

Our press office helps journalists interested in the Â鶹Çø's work aimed at improving patient care and reducing illness.

The Â鶹Çø is patient centred and clinically led, driving improvement in the diagnosis of disease, the care of individual patients and the health of the whole population, both in the UK and around the world.

Its 40,000 members work in hospitals and the community across 30 different medical specialties and range from medical students to retired doctors. The Â鶹Çø is the oldest medical college in England.

Contact the press office

Contact our press office at media@rcp.ac.uk

For specific media enquiries, please contact:

  • Tel: +44 (0)20 3075 1466.

Out of hours

The Royal College of Physician offices are open 9am – 5pm, Monday –Friday. At other times, and for urgent media enquiries only, please call +44 (0)7896 416409. This number will only normally be answered at weekends and outside of the normal working day.

Press releases

News
21/10/26
Â鶹Çø And Macmillan Cancer Support Clinical Consensus Statement On Acute And Supportive Oncology News Image

New clinical consensus aims to tackle postcode lottery in cancer care

A new clinical consensus statement aims to tackle the postcode lottery in specialist cancer care by setting out the core services that cancer patients should be able to access locally and the specialist expertise that should be available through regional networks when they become acutely unwell.
News
10/09/26
Clin Aca Report

‘The pipeline will run dry’: government clinical trial ambitions at risk as clinical academic careers in decline, warn Â鶹Çø

The Royal College of Physicians (Â鶹Çø) is calling for urgent action to safeguard clinical academic careers, warning that government ambitions to expand patient access to clinical trials will be at risk unless the doctors who design and deliver the research are better supported.
News
30/07/26
Doctors Working

Â鶹Çø responds to GMC fitness to practise data annual report

The Royal College of Physicians has responded to the GMC's annual fitness to practise report, highlighting the need for a modern, proportionate regulatory framework that protects patients, supports public confidence and enables concerns to be resolved fairly and efficiently.
News
13/07/26
Hospital Corridor

'The NHS is not fit for a hotter future': Â鶹Çø warns NHS must prepare for hotter summers as new data reveals scale of corridor care

The Royal College of Physicians (Â鶹Çø) has warned that the NHS must be made fit for hotter summers, after new figures revealed the continued scale of corridor care across England during a month of extreme pressure on urgent and emergency care.
News
11/06/26
Corridor Bed

'Today marks an important step': Â鶹Çø welcomes publication of first national corridor care data

The Royal College of Physicians (Â鶹Çø) has welcomed the publication today of the first national corridor care data in the NHS in England.
News
04/03/26
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Â鶹Çø president Professor Mumtaz Patel highlights modernisation, inclusivity and member voice ahead of new strategy launch

In a recent interview with Healthcare Today, Royal College of Physicians (Â鶹Çø) president Professor Mumtaz Patel outlined her vision for a more sustainable, inclusive and physician-led healthcare system.
News
04/03/26
Corridor Bed

Royal College of Physicians welcomes commitment to a timeline for corridor care data publication

The Royal College of Physicians (Â鶹Çø) has responded to NHS England’s publication of a data definition for corridor care and a commitment to national monthly reporting from May 2026 following calls from the Â鶹Çø for a timeline on data publication.
News
04/03/26
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‘We risk losing an entire generation of our future physicians if this does not change’: Â鶹Çø calls for urgent action to support Northern Ireland’s overstretched physician workforce

The Royal College of Physicians (Â鶹Çø) has published a new briefing report calling for urgent, system-wide action to stabilise and support Northern Ireland’s physician workforce, warning that without reform the health service risks losing a generation of future doctors.
News
24/02/26
Weight Loss Jabs

Â鶹Çø responds to the government’s announcement widening access to obesity treatments, calling for a long-term treatment strategy and clarity on funding

The government has today announced incentivisation for GPs to prescribe weight loss jabs and weight management services.