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Austerity is worsening NHS waiting time inequality in Scotland

Research analysing the impact of the Scottish government’s initiative to reduce NHS waiting times concludes the programme of investment and reform is associated with a reduction in waiting time inequa...

Research jointly funded by RSM presented at Ophthalmology Section meeting

Dr Marianne Coleman, an orthoptist and research fellow at the University of Surrey and winner of the 2019 Squint Forum prize, recently presented her research findings at the RSM. Her research, which l...

UK coronavirus policy places people aged 60-69 at increased risk

The 7.3 million people in the UK aged between 60 and 69 are at increased risk of severe illness and death from COVID-19. Although the government’s age threshold for isolation is 70 years and over, dat...

A day in the life of Moira Durbridge, President of the Patient Safety Section

I live in rural Derbyshire and have an hour’s drive into work at one of the hospitals in Leicester. There’s no such thing as a typical day for me – one of the great things about my job is the huge var...

Dr Kamran Abbasi recognised as influential Black, Asian and minority ethnic leader

Dr Kamran Abbasi, editor of the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, has been named by the HSJ as one of the 50 most influential Black, Asian and minority ethnic people in health. Thanking the ju...

In pictures: Performance tips for extreme and endurance events

With only 4% of sports science and medicine research conducted exclusively on women, there is a lack of information about how female-specific factors like breast support, menstrual cycle, pelvic healt...

Make the RSM your home away from home this summer

If you’re visiting London over the summer and thinking of staying overnight, why not make the RSM’s hotel Domus Medica your home away from home? There are a number of staycation packages which offer g...

Meet the Ellison-Cliffe Travelling Fellows Dr Phoebe Hodges

At the end of 2021 a number of RSM members in the early stages of their careers competed for the prestigious Ellison-Cliffe Travelling Fellowship. Here we meet the successful candidates and find out m...

Spotlight on the Cardiology Section

A decade ago, Dr Sukhjinder (Sukh) Nijjer, current President of the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) Section of Cardiology, was a member of the research team at the Hammersmith Hospital in London devel...

Dame Parveen Kumar – a beacon of achievement on her 80th birthday

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,...