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Chief registrars build a vital bridge between senior NHS leaders and the wider workforce. Develop your leadership skills on this 10-month programme while remaining in clinical practice.

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Nominations for the roles of senior censor/education and training vice president, vice president for Wales and elected councillors are now closed.

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Blog

09/02/26

Taking on extra responsibility in an overstretched system

With clinical pressures rising and workloads stretching further each year, many physicians are understandably cautious about taking on additional responsibilities beyond patient care. Time is limited, energy is finite and the costs of over-commitment are real. Yet some roles outside day-to-day clinical work can offer a different vantage point on how medicine is organised, led and represented.

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05/02/26

RCP responds to the publication of the National Cancer Plan for England

The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) welcomes the ambition set out in the National Cancer Plan and its clear focus on prevention, earlier diagnosis, improving survival and supporting people to live well with and beyond cancer. Physicians across the NHS will recognise the scale of the challenge and the urgency of action, particularly after years of missed cancer waiting time standards and widening inequalities in outcomes.

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04/02/26

RCP warns maternal obesity is an urgent and growing threat to women and babies

The RCP has warned that obesity in women and people of childbearing age is an urgent and growing public health concern in the UK, and that action must be taken to reduce preventable risks to women and babies.

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