The new NHS safety investigator for England, which starts work in April 2017, must become a fully independent body through primary legislation, according to healthcare safety experts writing in the Jo...
Holly Leigh Spencer, Sarah Lancaster and Alexandra Lisitsyna have been announced as the winners of this year’s Norah Schuster prize. Organised by the RSM History of Medicine Society, the annual prize ...
Patient rights must be protected as UK policies and government rhetoric indicate a shift from a hostile environment to an abusive one, say a group of experts and campaigners involved in refugee and mi...
Earlier this month Dr David Jeffrey, writing in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine*, suggested that a study of Shakespeare’s plays may be a creative way of enhancing empathic approaches in m...
Existing digital technologies must be exploited to enable a paradigm shift in current healthcare delivery which focuses on tests, treatments and targets rather than the therapeutic benefits of empathy...
President of the Royal Society of Medicine from 2010 to 2012. Co-author of globally renowned medical textbook Kumar and Clark’s Clinical Medicine. Advocate for women in healthcare. Dame Parveen Kumar,...
September always feels like a time of refresh. It’s the month when thousands of new medical students in the UK begin their journey into the world of healthcare and, for many of the rest of us, it brin...
Two papers published today by the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, debate gene editing and the health of future generations. Stage and screen actress Kiruna Stamell, who has a rare form of dw...
