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Professor Gillian Leng CBE appointed Dean of Education at the Royal Society of Medicine

Professor Gillian Leng CBE has been appointed the next Dean of Education at the Royal Society of Medicine. She will take up her post on 24 October 2022. A recent Trustee of the Royal Society of Medici...

Many potential eye donors unaware it’s an option, researchers say

Eyes are the least-donated organ or tissue in the UK and many people are unaware they can donate, researchers said at a Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) event. Thousands of potential eye donors are bei...

This much I’ve learnt: Dr Larry Fitton

Dr Larry Fitton has been an emergency department consultant for the last 11 years and is currently the divisional director for medicine, rehabilitation and cardiology at Oxford University Hospitals NH...

Royal Society of Medicine appoints first Director of Learning

The Royal Society of Medicine has today announced the appointment of Bridget Gildea as Director of Learning. Ms Gildea will join the RSM from Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), where she spent four years a...

New analysis of prisoner healthcare highlights risks to patient safety

Substantive changes are needed to improve patient safety in prisons, according to a new study published by the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine (JRSM) and funded by the National Institute for ...

RSM public health experts respond to vaping tax announcement

Professor Maggie Rae, President, and Dr Nicola Stingelin-Giles, council member, of the Epidemiology & Public Health Section, Royal Society of Medicine, respond to the announcement of a tax on vapi...

Health warnings can ignite climate action, say experts

Speakers including Professor Sir Chris Whitty addressed healthcare professionals following COP27 Focusing on the grave risks to health could cause a tipping point in public and political momentum abou...

Intellectual Disability Forum

About this section The Intellectual Disability Forum is made up of a number of practitioners, academics and researchers from different disciplines who come together three times a year to explore and d...

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President’s update: January 2018

Co-authored by Simon Wessely and Roger Kirby. Medical manslaughter – unforgivable crime or a recipe for miscarriage of justice? One of the major roles of the RSM is to cover topics that cross discipli...