TY - JOUR T1 - Update on the Future Hospital Programme JF - Future Hospital Journal JO - Future Hosp J SP - 8 LP - 9 DO - 10.7861/futurehosp.15.003 VL - 2 IS - 1 AU - Anita Donley AU - Mark Temple Y1 - 2015/02/01 UR - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/2/1/8.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. The Future Hospital Programme (FHP) team continues its hard work with the aim of implementing the RCP's vision for the future of medical care in hospital and community settings. We are working with the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) towards a united view on integrated care and with a team in Oxford on an exemplar of sector-wide integrated diabetes care. Pilot work on the role and responsibilities of the chief registrar begins in mid-2015 and there will be a consultation with the medical specialities on general internal medicine, entitled ‘Valuing Internal Medicine’. In 2014 we saw the successful launch of RCP partnership work with the service in the Future Hospital development sites and experienced the excellent reception of RCP work, including the FHP, at the political party conferences last autumn. New thinking about how care is integrated across hospital and community settings is needed and this mandates a partnership approach with primary care; we need to develop a shared definition of integrated care and an evidence base to inform how system barriers such as financial arrangements, tariffs, targets and commissioning processes may be overcome, to enable physicians and other professionals to deliver patient-centred integrated clinical services locally. To this end, we are working with the RCGP to develop a united view on integrated care across the profession; a comprehensive future hospital review of integrated care work is being led by Dr … ER -