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Catastrophic failures in the NHS can be caused by breakdowns in basic communication systems

The NHS sometimes struggles to manage basic communication systems that are often critical to the safety of patients. Writing in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, Carl Macrae, of the Univer...

Access to medical school narrowing for graduate-entry students

Access to medical school is narrowing for people wishing to study medicine who already have a degree, according to a group of current graduate-entry medical students. In a letter to the Journal of the...

Visible public health leadership needed to boost vaccine coverage

Public health expert Professor John Ashton is calling for local directors of public health to provide visible leadership to address the recent systematic deterioration of vaccine coverage levels. Writ...

COVID-19: Cuba offers UK salutary lesson in ‘shoe-leather’ epidemiology

Cuba’s successful containment of COVID-19 through door-to-door screening of every home in the country, shows how ‘shoe-leather’ epidemiology could have averted the dramatic failure of the UK’s respons...

A day in the life of a paediatric emergency medicine trainee

Find out more about becoming an RSM member and get unparalleled support through your career. What is it like to work in paediatrics? Felicity Taylor is a ST7 trainee in paediatric emergency medicine i...

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 ...

Press notes 14 Jan 22 Long COVID Dr Phil Hammond Peanut allergy

Coming up week commencing 17 January 2022 Thursday 20 January: webinar from 12.30pm to 3.30pm The current prevalence of long COVID in the UK, the latest research and treatments for the condition, and ...

New analysis shows benefits of offering two doses of COVID-19 vaccine to children aged 12-17 clearly outweigh risks

UPDATED 1 NOVEMBER 2021 Researchers offer quantitative risk-benefit analysis of 2 doses of COVID-19 vaccination among adolescents in England over a range of case incidence rates. Given current high ca...

In conversation with Sanjeev Bhaskar

Exploring race through curiosity, being mistaken for a doctor when working for hospital radio, and when not to ask a celebrity patient for a photograph. These were just some of the stories and ideas s...

Health experts fear impact deteriorating hostile environment

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...