Media
The Royal Society of Medicine is one of the country’s major providers of postgraduate medical education for doctors, dentists, vets and other health professionals. The Society is not a policy-making body and we do not issue guidelines or standards of care. We have nearly 60 Sections which each provide a multi-disciplinary forum for discussion. Sections cover disciplines as diverse as medical genetics and clinical hypnosis to palliative care and sleep medicine. The membership of Sections changes frequently but we can usually find experts to give you a background briefing or a quote.
Note to journalists: Please contact the media office for further information on our sections, and not section administrators.
Over 450 wide-ranging academic and public meetings are held at the RSM every year. Journalists can visit our diary page to view forthcoming meetings.
RSM media releases can be found below or via the links on the right.
Contact the Media Office about:
- press passes for our meetings,
- papers from our journals, including our flagship monthly, the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine,
- filming on our premises,
- our media e-bulletin - for a monthly update on our forthcoming cutting-edge meetings.
| 26 April 2012 | Views of old, unwell and disadvantaged people ignored in debate on welfare funding A gap exists between the health and social care system that older adults expect and what may be provided by a reformed welfare state. Researchers writing in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine say that the values underpinned by the views expressed by a group of older adults receiving health and social care for life-limiting illnesses are an important contribution to the debate on welfare funding. The research was funded by the National Institute for Health Research Health Services and Delivery Research (NIHR HS&DR) programme. |
| 9 March 2012 | Behavioural science-based interventions could reduce NHS DNAs Patients who fail to attend NHS appointments (Did Not Attends or DNAs) cost the NHS an estimated $pound;700 million annually. Latest figures show that up to 6 million appointments are wasted each year but behavioural scientists writing in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine have shown how simple changes informed by social influence theory could reduce this waste by 30%. |
| 10 February 2012 | Volume and outcome studies provide unreliable evidence used in proposals to centralise hospital services Proposals for centralising hospital services which are founded solely on studies linking the volume of hospital activity to the outcomes achieved are based on unsafe evidence. That is the conclusion drawn in a paper published today in the journal Health Services Management Research (HSMR). Most such studies fail to demonstrate a causal link between volume and outcome and consequently should not be used to justify centralisation. |
| 3 February 2012 | Increased risk of death for patients admitted to hospital at weekend but patients less likely to die in hospital at the weekend Patients admitted to hospital at the weekend have a significant increased risk of death within 30 days of admission but the likelihood of patients dying in hospital is less at the weekend than during the week. These are the results of research published today in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine (JRSM) that analysed all 14.2 million admissions to NHS hospitals in England during the 12 months from April 2009 to March 2010. |
| 25 January 2012 | Survey reveals why few UK-trained doctors working in developed countries want to return home UK-trained doctors who have emigrated to high-income countries may stay in their adopted country because of higher levels of job satisfaction and a preference for an overseas lifestyle, according to the results of a study into doctors working in New Zealand published today in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine (JRSM). Despite only one third of doctors originally intending to move permanently at the time they left the UK, by the time of the survey nine out of 10 intended to stay in New Zealand for the foreseeable future. |
