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Dame Parveen Kumar – a beacon of achievement on her 80th birthday

President of the Royal Society of Medicine from 2010 to 2012. Co-author of globally renowned medical textbook Kumar and Clark’s Clinical Medicine. Advocate for women in healthcare. Dame Parveen Kumar,...

HRH The Prince of Wales to open Royal Society of Medicine series on health impacts of climate change

A series of webinars that will position health and wellbeing at the centre of the climate change debate will be opened with a pre-recorded video message from His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales on ...

NHS sexual harassment violence prevention training employees

Healthcare risks falling behind other sectors in providing training to help employees address sexual harassment and violence within the workplace. A group of doctors and academics writing in the Journ...

Dr Melita Irving RSM Trustee

Dr Melita Irving has been an RSM Trustee since 2019 and her current term will continue until 2023. A consultant in clinical genetics at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Trust, Melita talks here about her expe...

NHS complaint-handling policies could do more to support learning from concerns raised

The current design of national policies for complaint handling in NHS hospitals in England means there is too much focus on assessing a complaint’s validity and not enough on learning from the concern...

Talking to the public about Covid-19

An RSM programme hosted by TV presenter Kate Garraway represented a departure from the status quo for the Society. In an usual response to exceptional times the video production, Covid & the festi...

Catastrophic failures in the NHS can be caused by breakdowns in basic communication systems

The NHS sometimes struggles to manage basic communication systems that are often critical to the safety of patients. Writing in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, Carl Macrae, of the Univer...

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Doubts raised about effectiveness of HPV vaccines

Peer reviewed / Review / People A new analysis of the clinical trials of HPV vaccines to prevent cervical cancer raises doubts about the vaccines’ effectiveness. The analysis, published by the Journal...