"Section for General Practice and Primary Care"

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Covid-19: hospital response risks worsening health inequalities

Disadvantaged and marginalised people face worsening health inequalities as a result of the difficult choices made by NHS hospitals in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Public health doctors, writing...

RSM members recognised in 2025 New Year Honours

The Royal Society of Medicine offers congratulations to those members who have been recognised in the New Year Honours List 2025. We are delighted to see members of the RSM community acknowledged for ...

President’s update: February 2018

Co-authored by Sir Simon Wessely and Professor Roger Kirby Choice at the end of life “Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass. He hates him That would, upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out lon...

IWD President Professor Mary Sheppard

Professor Sheppard is head of the CRY Cardiovascular Pathology Unit at St George’s Medical School and was recently elected as President of the Royal Society of Medicine’s Pathology section. As part of...

2022

2022 Media releases archive For more information about press releases, JRSM papers or filming on RSM premises, contact the Media Office at media@rsm.ac.uk or call +44 (0)1580 764 713. Prudent healthca...

Leading academic warns of ‘worrying’ Sovietisation of British medical profession

Contemporary developments in British medicine have concerning similarities to historical Soviet practices, a leading academic claims. In a new commentary published in the Journal of the Royal Society ...

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...

RSM congratulates Professor Dame Robina Shah on her investiture

The Royal Society of Medicine is delighted to extend congratulations to RSM member Professor Dame Robina Shah on her investiture, which took place at Buckingham Palace last week. Psychologist Professo...

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...

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...