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This much I’ve learnt: Dr Larry Fitton

Dr Larry Fitton has been an emergency department consultant for the last 11 years and is currently the divisional director for medicine, rehabilitation and cardiology at Oxford University Hospitals NH...

New analysis of prisoner healthcare highlights risks to patient safety

Substantive changes are needed to improve patient safety in prisons, according to a new study published by the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine (JRSM) and funded by the National Institute for ...

RSM members recognised in the New Year Honours List 2024

The Royal Society of Medicine offers congratulations to those members who have been recognised in the New Year Honours List 2024. Dames Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire Professor Dame Ca...

COVID-19: Insights from the rapid transition to digital technology

The arrival of COVID-19 in the UK quickly left frontline health and care services in disarray. Many services saw an overnight flight to digital with audio and video conferencing becoming the norm in a...

President’s update: January 2018

Co-authored by Simon Wessely and Roger Kirby. Medical manslaughter – unforgivable crime or a recipe for miscarriage of justice? One of the major roles of the RSM is to cover topics that cross discipli...

Health warnings can ignite climate action, say experts

Speakers including Professor Sir Chris Whitty addressed healthcare professionals following COP27 Focusing on the grave risks to health could cause a tipping point in public and political momentum abou...

Professor Gillian Leng CBE appointed Dean of Education at the Royal Society of Medicine

Professor Gillian Leng CBE has been appointed the next Dean of Education at the Royal Society of Medicine. She will take up her post on 24 October 2022. A recent Trustee of the Royal Society of Medici...

Public Webinar

Spotlight on: Dental services - What does the future hold?

Get updated on the future of dentistry with Emerita Professor Cynthia Pine CBE and Professor Nick Barker at our next Spotlight webinar. Professor Pine and Professor Barker will open the floor to valua...
  • Date Tue 26 Mar 2024
Improving long Covid recovery outcomes through rehabilitation

Dr David McWilliams, Associate Professor and Clinical Academic Physiotherapist for critical care at University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire, is one of many physiotherapists helping Covid pat...

With health data at our fingertips, why don’t we know our blood pressure?

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the biggest cause of early death in deprived areas of England and at least half of all heart attacks and strokes are linked with high blood pressure, known as hypertens...