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Royal College of Physicians (RCP) guidelines

The Royal College of Physicians is a registered charity that aims to ensure high quality care for patients by promoting the highest standards of medical practice. It provides and sets standards in clinical practice and education and training, conducts assessments and examinations, quality assures external audit programmes, supports doctors in their practice of medicine, and advises the Government, public and the profession on healthcare issues.

Doctors of the highest quality serving patients well

The RCP’s vision is to see doctors educated and trained to the highest medical standards, delivering care to patients that is of the highest quality. The College’s vision encapsulates our role in building, protecting and strengthening the values of the medical profession, and acting as its authoritative voice.

For more information, please visit www.rcplondon.ac.uk

The RCP website also contains a report on the clinical guidelines and advice for prescribers. This report has been prepared for those involved in the care and assessment of patients with respiratory and cardiac disease who require domiciliary oxygen. In particular, it is targeted at general practitioners and general physicians, geriatricians, palliative card physicians and cardiologists.

Nurses, physiotherapists, occupational therapists and pharmacists will also find much valuable guidance in this report, www.rcplondon.ac.uk/pubs.