The Patient and Carer Network (PCN) is a network of volunteers in England and Wales who support and shape the work of the Royal College of Physicians.
'[The PCN] is a great opportunity to learn, share and highlight the lived experience and collective knowledge of patients and carers.'
Sam Mauger
Patient and Carer Network (PCN) chair
We help to redesign health care
We work with diverse teams of healthcare professionals to improve health outcomes. The Modern Ward Rounds guidance describes how care can be delivered in hospital in partnership with patients, families and carers.
Read the report
We strive to make healthcare safer
We use our lived experience to work with clinicians to create useful resources like the medicine safety checklist.
Download the checklist
We want to make experiences better
We help to improve difficult conversations. In our work on the Talking about Dying report, we held an online focus group to bring members together to share their personal experiences of talking about dying. This fed into the development and revision of guidance that helps clinicians to talk to their patients and families in an honest, timely and sensitive manner.
We support and influence the work of the RCP
The PCN is a key partner in the work of RCP specialty committees, boards and working groups. We sit on RCP journal editorial boards and contribute to Commentary magazine.
As representatives, we are able to influence and provide the patient perspective to groups of specialist clinicians, highlighting why patient and carer expertise is important and how it can be better utilised.
