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College Awards Winter 2025

We are pleased to announce the award winners from the last meeting of the Nominations Committee held on 9 January 2025.

60 seconds with the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication

In this short interview, Dr Sam Black explores the key things to consider when communicating risk to patients.

In this short interview, Dr Sam Black, our Patient Information Lead, explores the key things to consider when communicating risk to patients with Leila Finikarides, Researcher at the Winton Centre, and Jenny Westaway, Chair of PatientsVoices@RCoA.

Since early 2024, the Patient Information Group has been working with the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication to ensure that our information for patients on risk reflects the latest best practice and learning from the work of the Centre.

We hope you find the interview an interesting insight into our work in this area.

Socioeconomic deprivation, health inequality and perioperative care

This article looks at what is being done to understand inequality so it can be reduced, and patient outcomes in perioperative care can be improved.

Authors: 

  • Dr James Durrand, RCoA Centre for Research and Improvement Fellow; Perioperative Quality Improvement Programme (PQIP); Resident Anaesthetist (ST6), South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
  • Dr Eimhear Lusby, Honorary Research Fellow, University College London; ST6 Anaesthetist, University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust
  • Dr Adam Hunt, MPhil/PhD Student, University College London and Resident Anaesthetist, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
  • Professor S Ramani Moonesinghe, PQIP Chief Investigator

The circumstances in which we are born, grow, live, work and age profoundly influence our health. These complex, reciprocal, and dynamic interactions begin in utero and develop continuously throughout life.

Recognition that socioeconomic deprivation drives poorer health was fundamental to the establishment of the UK NHS in 1948. The key causal relationships and how to intervene in them have been debated since then.

Seventy-five years later, people from more deprived backgrounds still experience less beneficial interactions with the NHS. Individuals present later and with more severe disease. Unhealthy behaviours, including smoking, physical inactivity and poor diet, are more common and often cluster. In turn, rates of chronic ill health and multimorbidity are higher. Wider advances in key disease areas have been unevenly distributed across socioeconomic groups. Consequently, deprived patients continue to die younger.