Dr Claire Bayntun is an RSM Trustee and has been Vice President of the Society since 2020. A clinical consultant in global public health, she will be stepping down as an RSM Trustee later this year. H...

Professor Alan Roberts OBE, Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, recipient of the RSM Medal and former RSM Vice-President and Honorary Treasurer has sadly died. Specialising in in biomate...

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...

The NHS would spend billions of pounds more on drugs if it had to pay US prices following a US/UK trade deal. According to a new study by researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Harvard...

Since its foundation in 1805, the Royal Society of Medicine’s Library has amassed an extraordinary collection of old and rare books, letters, albums, photographs and portraits dating back to the 15th ...

The reluctance or refusal to accept Covid-19 vaccinations can be tackled by a five-pronged strategy to addressing the behavioural and socio-demographic factors behind vaccine hesitancy. Writing in the...

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...

The winners have recently been announced for the 2020 Doctors for the NHS Essay Prize, which has been run this year in collaboration with the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. Founded in 1976,...

When former RSM President (2014–2017) Mr Babulal ‘B’ Sethia set in motion the RSM’s global health initiative in 2011, first on his list of people to consult about how the Society could best contribute...

The Royal Society of Medicine is saddened to report the death of Professor John Betteridge, Dean of the Royal Society of Medicine from 2010 to 2015. John Betteridge was a highly respected physician an...