About
We are developing a community for clinicians at different career stages, from people with extensive experience in the area to those just starting out in their career who are interested in building skills. We aim to create a safe space where ideas, methodologies and learnings can be shared in an engaging way, through regional face to face events, online drop ins and trust visits.
Get involved
We would love for you to be part of our community and implementation offer! If you’re interested in joining, we would be delighted for you to join one of our drop-in sessions on Microsoft Teams, where you will have the opportunity to meet with Dr John Dean, RCP clinical vice president, Dr Dan Smith, respiratory consultant and Medical Care – driving change editor-in-chief, and Ian Atkinson, the RCP’s executive director for improvement. These sessions provide a great chance to learn more and get involved. Please find the dates and times below:
Dr Dan Smith and Ian Atkinson
Session date and time:
18 March 2025 | 12:30 - 13:00
Dr Dan Smith, Ian Atkinson and John Dean
Session date and time:
21 March 2025 | 08:00 - 08:30
Dr Dan Smith and Ian Atkinson
Session date and time:
25 March 2025 | 17:00 - 17:30
If you would like to attend one of the drop-in sessions, please let us know, and we will be happy to send you the calendar invite.
Alternatively, we welcome 1:1 conversations if you are unable to make those times. If you require an alternative time, please let us know by responding to this email and the team will be happy to assist.
We look forward to working with you and building a vibrant network of clinicians dedicated to innovation and quality improvement.
In the meantime, should you have any questions or queries, please don’t hesitate to contact medicalcare@rcp.ac.uk
Or visit our Get involved page.
Our vision
- Use our influence, taking a cross-specialty pathway approach to advocate for the development and enhancement of services that promote the prevention of ill health and the highest standards of patient safety and care.
- Inspire and energise clinicians behind an evidence-based, data driven and highly collaborative approach to quality improvement and innovation by amplifying and disseminating best practice and connecting clinicians across the multi-disciplinary team to learn from each other to scale and spread best practice.
- Deliver ‘implementation’ propositions in which the RCP Improvement and Innovation Community members can support project delivery as experts: clinical engagement/innovation/co-design, outpatient redesign, digital health, care pathway redesign, inpatient care and flow, patient safety, medical workforce and continuous quality improvement.
Take the learnings from our RCP members, fellows, staff and associates and provide a platform to ‘scale and spread’ implementation of that learning to the benefit of the NHS nationally.
The benefits of being a member of the ‘RCP Improvement and Innovation Community’ will include:
Engaging in improvement projects:
The opportunity to be a key expert in one of our improvement projects and thus being able to spread the learning from projects you have delivered successfully in your organisation to other NHS Trusts and systems across the UK. Work with other health providers and systems enabling you to see and learn from others and bring that back to your local specialty/organisation
Forming connections:
Exposure to senior leaders within the RCP, within NHSE and our Board level clients in providers and systems and the opportunity to be part of and learn from our partnership ecosystem (network of NHS and private sector businesses, individuals and resources that work together to create value and drive innovation).
Showcasing your work:
Opportunity to showcase your clinical improvement work across the UK as part of our projects, workshops, roundtables and summits, as well as our Excellence in Patient Care Awards and ‘Medical Care – driving change’.