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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...