TY - JOUR T1 - Future Hospital update from Wales JF - Future Hospital Journal JO - Future Hosp J SP - 161 LP - 161 DO - 10.7861/futurehosp.2-3-161 VL - 2 IS - 3 AU - Rhid Dowdle Y1 - 2015/10/01 UR - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/2/3/161.abstract N2 - Last year we were involved in the political party conferences in Wales in relation to the UK general election, with the vice president for Wales chairing high-level roundtables at all the major party conferences focusing on the future of the NHS in Wales. Key Royal College of Physicians (RCP) messages were taken from the Future Hospital Commission and the RCP Wales report, Rising to the challenge.1 We called for more clinically led solutions, more investment in health and more focus on supporting the medical workforce.We are now getting ready for the next National Assembly for Wales elections, which will take place in May 2016. In preparation for this, the RCP Wales Office launched its action plan, Focus on the future: our action plan for the next Welsh government, on 2 June with the aim of influencing the Welsh party political manifestos. Our headline message once again was that the next Welsh government must commit to working with physicians to redesign medical services in … ER -