TY - JOUR T1 - Introduction to the Future Hospital Programme JF - Future Hospital Journal JO - Future Hosp J SP - 7 LP - 8 DO - 10.7861/futurehosp.14.003 VL - 1 IS - 1 AU - Anita Donley Y1 - 2014/06/01 UR - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/1/1/7.abstract N2 - This part of the Future Hospital Journal is where you will find regular overview updates on progress made by the Future Hospital Programme of the Royal College of Physicians, together with its partners, in realising the vision of the Future Hospital Commission. We very much welcome your feedback. If you have any comments, or would like to be involved in the work of the Programme, please contact futurehospital@rcplondon.ac.uk. It gives me real pleasure to write this introduction for the inaugural issue of the Future Hospital Journal. We hope that this new publication from the RCP provides a platform for those committed to improving, designing and delivering medical care that meets the current and future needs of patients and the public. In September 2013, the RCP published the report from the Future Hospital Commission.1 Future hospital: caring for medical patients laid out a vision of how hospital services can adapt to meet the needs of patients now and in the future. Spurred by evidence published in Hospitals on the edge,2 the Commission sought to address how the delivery of medical care needed to change to avoid a looming crisis in our hospitals and to ensure the … ER -