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Meet Roger Kirby, the Society’s new President

With the beginning of the 2020/21 academic year upon us, the transformation of the RSM to ensure its future sustainability is front and central in the mind of new RSM President Professor Roger Kirby. ...

RSM members named as influential minority ethnic health leaders

Four RSM members, representing diverse fields in healthcare, have been named in a recently published list of most influential Black, Asian and minority ethnic health leaders. Published by HSJ, the pro...

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...

New global ranking for life expectancy shows decades-long UK decline

A new analysis of global rankings of life expectancy over seven decades shows the UK has done worse than all G7 countries except the USA. Researchers writing in the Journal of the Royal Society of Med...

Food and Health Forum

About this section The Food & Health Forum’s purpose is to explore and develop, in the form of educational events, the relationships between diet, dietary ingredients and health, including the phy...

Pain Medicine Section

About this section The Pain Medicine Section’s purpose is to advance the understanding of the mechanisms and treatment of pain in all of its presentations and clinical settings and to provide educatio...

Laryngology and Rhinology Section

About this section The Laryngology & Rhinology Section’s purpose is to report and discuss the current practice and advances in the specialties of Laryngology and Rhinology. Section meetings and co...

Surgery Section

About this section The Surgery Section’s purpose is to provide a forum for the discussion and advancement of the art, science and practice of general surgery with some emphasis on the branches and sub...

Zoonotic threats must be integrated into global health security planning, say experts

The surveillance of zoonotic diseases must be integrated into health security intelligence systems, if future pandemics are to be handled effectively, according to global health practitioners writing ...

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 ...