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Professor Roger Kirby becomes President of the Royal Society of Medicine

On Tuesday 28 July 2020, Professor Roger Kirby was inaugurated as President of the Royal Society of Medicine. He takes over from Professor Sir Simon Wessely and will hold office for three years. Profe...

Ellison-Cliffe Travelling Fellowships – boosting careers, changing lives

Every year the RSM awards the prestigious Ellison-Cliffe Travelling Fellowship. With awards of up to £15,000, the fellowships support senior registrars and early career consultants to undertake additi...

Royal Society of Medicine announces three new governance appointments

The Royal Society of Medicine is pleased to announce three new appointments to its Audit and Risk and Finance and Investment committees. Mr Richard Hewes has been appointed as a co-optee on the RSM Au...

New trustees joining the RSM Council

Following the recent RSM Council election, two new trustees will be joining Council at the beginning of the 2019/20 academic year: Dr Melita Irving is a Consultant in clinical genetics at Guy’s and St...

The health emergency of climate change

Last month the RSM launched a new 10-part series of events that positions health and wellbeing at the centre of the climate change discussion. With almost 3,500 registrations for the events so far, it...

Professor Sir Simon Wessely elected Fellow of The Royal Society

Professor Sir Simon Wessely, Immediate Past President of the Royal Society of Medicine, has been named as one of 52 newly elected Fellows of the Royal Society for their exceptional contribution to sci...

RSM Covid-19 webinars: making an impact

In March 2020, as the potentially devastating impact of Covid-19 on the NHS became clear, the Royal Society of Medicine moved swiftly to produce a series of webinars to provide essential medical educa...

Nominations being sought for Trustees to join the RSM Council

Nominations are now being sought for three Elected Council Members to take up post on the RSM Council for a period of three years from 1 October 2021. The Society has a track record of delivering medi...

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...

Long COVID patient registry could support long-term monitoring and service improvements

Recommendations for a voluntary Long COVID patient registry or similar mechanism to monitor the condition in Wales over the long-term offer could support service improvement and offer insight for othe...