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Opioid related hospital admissions JRSM

A new analysis of hospital patient data in England over 10 years, published by the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, shows opioid-related admissions increased by 48.9 per cent, from 10,805 adm...

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Professor Gillian Leng CBE elected next President of the Royal Society of Medicine

Professor Gillian Leng CBE has been elected the next President of the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM). She will become President-Elect on 1 October 2023 and will take over as President from 23 July 20...

Fellow membership

Fellow membership of the RSM is designed to help you prosper in your medical career and extend your networks. It is also open to those holding senior management positions in medicine and the healthcar...

Professor Dame Averil Mansfield awarded Lifetime Achievement award

Trailblazing surgeon and longstanding Royal Society of Medicine member, Professor Dame Averil Mansfield, has been recognised with a Lifetime Achievement award at this year’s Pride of Britain awards. T...

“Not now, not ever”: The Right Hon Julia Gillard, AC reflects on one decade since ‘the speech’

Julia Gillard, Chair of Wellcome and Global Institute for Women’s Leadership (GIWL) at King’s College London, was interviewed by RSM Immediate Past-President Professor Sir Simon Wessely at the Royal S...

Four Ellison-Cliffe Travelling Fellowships winners announced

Mr Eoin Dinneen Mr Eoin Dinneen, ST7 in urology, is travelling to Melbourne, Australia to work at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. Dr Judith Jade ST6 rheumatology registrar Dr Judith Jade will be un...

Experts underline importance of reducing stress in pregnancy

The latest understanding of how stress in pregnancy affects the foetus was shared with healthcare professionals at the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) last week. Academics and clinicians from Durham U...

RSM recruits more than 150 new student members

The Royal Society of Medicine has signed up more than 150 new student members during a tour of university and medical school freshers fairs around the UK. The roadshow gave RSM staff a unique opportun...

Single-use surgical items contribute two-thirds of carbon footprint of products used in common operations

A new analysis of the carbon footprint of products used in the five most common surgical operations carried out in the NHS in England shows that 68% of carbon contributions come from single-use items,...