Below is the past programme of the Society since October 2018.
| Date | Event | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday, May 09, 2024 | Mr Philip Havers KC | Patient confidentiality – existing principles and unusual circumstances |
| Thursday, April 11, 2024 | Prof Rachael Mulheron KC (Hon) B.Com, LLB (Hons), LLM (Advanced) (UQ), D.Phil (Oxon) | Secondary Victims Liability in Medical Negligence: Ring-fenced or Unfenced? |
| Thursday, March 14, 2024 | Dr Michael Powers KC, BSc, MB, BS, DA, FFFLM, LLD (Hon) | Medicine and Law – A view from both sides |
| Thursday, February 08, 2024 | Dr Simon Wilson MA, FRCPsych Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist | The Fixated Threat Assessment Centre |
| Thursday, January 11, 2024 | Dr Jonathan Leach OBE, FRCGPGP and Associate Medical Director NHS England | General Medical Practice: Is there a future? |
| Thursday, December 14, 2023 | Dr Jenny Vaughan OBE, PhD, FRCP Consultant Neurologist | Is the criminal law too blunt a tool to use when things go wrong in healthcare? |
| Thursday, November 09, 2023 | Dr Vassilios Hurmusiadis BEng, MA, PhD, and Mr Kevin Sherman MA (Cantab) BM BCh (Oxon) FRCS MEd PhD | Simulation-based training in cardiology The role of simulation and AI in medical education |
| Thursday, October 12, 2023 | Dr Simon Wilson, MA FRCPsych, Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist | The Fixed Threat Assessment Centre |
| Thursday, June 08, 2023 | Dr Christine Tomkins BSC(Hons) MBChB(Hons) DO FRCS FRCOphth FRCP MBA Retired CEO (September 2021), The Medical Defence Union | Tales of the Unexpected – 36 years of Medical Defence |
| Thursday, May 11, 2023 | Baroness Cumberlege CBE DL | “First do no harm” – Primodos, sodium valproate and surgical mesh |
| Thursday, April 13, 2023 | Professor Mike Tipton MBE, FTPSProfessor of Human & Applied Physiology | Extreme environmental physiology in the dock |
| Thursday, March 09, 2023 | Sir Liam Joseph Donaldson FRCSE FRCP FRCPE FMedSci FRCA. Former Chief Medical Officer for England | Vaccines and Geopolitics |
| Thursday, February 09, 2023 | Dr Gabrielle Pendlebury, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist | County Lines |
| Thursday, January 12, 2023 | Professor Neil Greenberg Professor of Defence Mental Health | Adjustment disorder, moral injury and the Case of Marine ”A” |
| Thursday, December 08, 2022 | Professor Marian Knight MA, MBChB, MPH, DPhil, FFPH, FRCPE Professor of Maternal and Child Population Health | Excess maternal mortality BAME women |
| Thursday, November 10, 2022 | Dr Derek Tracy, Medical Director, West London NHS Trust Senior Lecturer, King’s College London & University College London | Malingering: are doctors exceeding the evidence? |
| Thursday, October 13, 2022 | Simon Readhead K.C., M.A., B.C.L | President’s address: Medicine and Law – Little Territory in Common. |
| Monday, June 20, 2022 | Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws & Professor Iain Hutchison | Annual Dinner at the Apothecaries |
| Thursday, June 09, 2022 | Mr Matthew Izett-Kay BMBS MD MRCOG, Consultant Gynaecologist and Subspecialist Urogynaecologist, John Radcliffe, Oxford | Urogynaecology and Mesh: Who, why, and where doctors go wrong. |
| Thursday, May 12, 2022 | Mrs Justice Lambert | The Hillsborough Inquest 2014-2016 |
| Thursday, April 14, 2022 | Nicola Mundy, Solicitor, Senior Coroner, SE Yorkshire | BY ZOOM ONLY Deaths and the Smart (or not so Smart?) Motorways |
| Thursday, March 10, 2022 | Philip Barlow H.M. Assistant Coroner for Inner South London | What power the inquisition? Do coroners really make a difference? |
| Thursday, February 10, 2022 | Andrew Hoyle MBBS Barrister LLM MRCGP FRAeS Hon FFFLM | Cyber warfare – does it have a legal basis? Can the UK lawfully protect healthcare from an overseas cyber attack? |
| Thursday, January 13, 2022 | Baron Neuberger of Abbotsbury GBS PC Hon FRS President of the Supreme Court from 2012 to 2017 | Personal autonomy: a blessing or a curse |
| Thursday, December 09, 2021 | Colonel James Hardy Forensic Odontologist | Forensic Dentistry and Why Not Bite Marks? |
| Thursday, November 11, 2021 | Lord Jonathan Sumption Justice of the Supreme Court between 2012 and 2018 | The Value of Life – in law and in practice |
| Thursday, October 14, 2021 | Dr Margaret Stark President, Faculty of Forensic & Legal Medicine, Royal College of Physicians. Followed by reception to celebrate our 120th Anniversary | The Forensic Physician – A dying profession |
| Thursday, June 10, 2021 | The Importance of a transparently independent & professional investigation when things have gone wrong or accusations made | Tom Kark QC, QEB Hollis Whitman Chambers |
| Thursday, May 13, 2021 | The Medicolegal Implications of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) | Dr Christopher A. Jenner MB BS, FRCA, FFPMRCA, Consultant in Pain Medicine, Imperial Healthcare NHS Trust, London, Director, Medicolegal Partners Limited, Medical Director, London Pain Clinic, 9 Harley Street, London, W1G 9QY |
| Thursday, April 08, 2021 | Rumours, Myths and Realities | Jeremy Chipperfield, HM Coroner for County Durham & Darlington |
| Thursday, March 11, 2021 | Managing pandemics: – What we have to learn from the work of Austin Bradford Hill | Professor Sir Anthony Newman Taylor, President’s Envoy for Health at Imperial College London and former Director of Research and Development for the National Heart and Lung Institute |
| Thursday, February 11, 2021 | What is a Pandemic? | Dr Nathalie MacDermott, NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer, King’s College London |
| Thursday, January 14, 2021 | Medical Legal Considerations in Premier League Football | Dr Gary O’Driscoll, Head of Sports Medicine, Arsenal Football Club |
| Thursday, December 10, 2020 | Medicines and Murder | Professor Robin Ferner, Honorary Consultant Physician and Clinical Pharmacologist at City Hospital Birmingham, and Honorary Consultant at the West Midlands Centre for Adverse Drug Reactions. |
| Thursday, November 12, 2020 | The Consequences of Torture | Dr Margaret Brearley |
| Thursday, October 08, 2020 | Presidential Address: Expert Witnesses Past Present & Future | Professor Harry Zeitlin |
| Thursday, June 11, 2020 | ONLINE MEETING VIA ZOOM – AGM followed by panel discussion on Covid-19 | Dr Rachel Clarke, Nageena Khalique QC & Dr Kathleen Liddell |
| Thursday, May 14, 2020 | Air Pollution — The Greatest Public Health Risk of our Time CANCELLED – see 2020-2021 Programme | Professor Stephen Holgate CBE,Clinical Professor of Immuno-pharmacology, Medical Research Council |
| Thursday, April 09, 2020 | Rumours, Myths and Realities CANCELLED – see 2020-2021 Programme | Christopher P Dorries CBE, HM Coroner for South Yorkshire (West) |
| Thursday, March 12, 2020 | The Importance of the Medico-Legal Relationship in Immigration Law | Bahar Ata, Director of Public Law & Immigration, Duncan Lewis, Solicitors |
| Thursday, February 13, 2020 | The Penal System — a Suitable Case for Treatment | Frances Crook, Chief Executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform |
| Thursday, January 09, 2020 | Capacity, Conflict & Compensation | Clem Maddock, Consultant Psychiatrist |
| Thursday, December 12, 2019 | With the End in Mind | Kathryn Mannix — Palliative Care Doctor |
| Thursday, November 14, 2019 | When Dental Implants go Wrong | Dr Michael Norton BDS, FDS, RCS (Ed) |
| Thursday, October 10, 2019 | Why is it so difficult for Doctors to be Honest? — Minty Lecture | Mr Henry Marsh CBE, FRICS, Neurosurgeon |
| Thursday, June 13, 2019 | Should Assisted Dying require the consent of a High Court Judge? | Professor Penney Lewis, School of Law & Ethics, Kings College London |
| Monday, May 20, 2019 | ANNUAL DINNER | The Apothecaries Hall, Black Friars Lane London EC4V 6EJ. Speakers: The Rt Hon Lady Justice Nicola Davies DBE will propose the toast to “Medicine” and Dame Clare Marx, Chair of the GMC and past President of the Royal College of Surgeons will propose the toast to “the Law” |
| Thursday, May 09, 2019 | Can the NHS as we know it reach its 100th Birthday or is it now in Palliative Care? | Chris Hopson, Chief Executive NHS Providers |
| Thursday, April 11, 2019 | Assisted Fertility – the legal and ethical issues | Catherine Drennan, Head of Legal Dept, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority |
| Thursday, March 14, 2019 | Global surprise: the leading cause of death and disability in young people, and what we are doing about it. | Charles Clayton, Chief Executive and Dr James de Courcy, Chair of Trustees of the Primary Trauma Care Foundation. PLEASE NOTE This is a change to the advertised programme |
| Thursday, February 14, 2019 | The Prosecution of Sexual Offences in 2019 including medical issues that arise in respect of consent and capacity | His Honour Peter Rook QC |
| Thursday, January 10, 2019 | When Things Go Wrong – Gross Negligent Manslaughter in Healthcare | Professor Sir Norman Williams MS FRCS FMedSci FRCP FRCP(Edin) FRCA FDS(Hon) FACS(Hon) FRCSI(Hon) FRCSEd(Hon), Chairman National Clinical Improvement Programme (NCIP), Emeritus Professor of Surgery, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary, University of London |
| Thursday, December 13, 2018 | Ethico-Legal Issues arising in the care of Gender-Variant Children and Adolescents | Dr Bernadette Wren, Consultant Clinical Psychologist Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust |
| Thursday, November 08, 2018 | Objectivity in an Adversarial System | Lady Justice Hallett |
| Thursday, October 11, 2018 | Medical Professionalism in the 21st Century | Sir Robert Francis QC, President of the Medico-Legal Society |
PROGRAMME for 2023-2024
| Thursday 12 October, 2023 | Dr Simon Wilson, MA FRCPsych, Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist
|
The Fixed Threat Assessment Centre |
| Thursday 9 November, 2023 | Dr Vassilios Hurmusiadis BEng, MA, PhD, and
Mr Kevin Sherman MA (Cantab) BM BCh (Oxon) FRCS MEd PhD |
Simulation-based training in cardiology | The role of simulation and AI in medical education |
| Thursday 14 December, 2023 | Mr. David Sellu MSc, ChM, FRCS, FRCSEd.,
former Honorary Consultant Surgeon at St Mark’s Hospital, London. |
When Things Go Wrong – Consent, Manslaughter and Gross Clinical Negligence |
| Thursday 11 January, 2024 | Dr Jonathan Leach OBE, FRCGP, GP and Associate Medical Director NHS England | General Medical Practice: Is there a future? |
| Thursday 8 February, 2024 | Ms Tamzin Cuming FRCS (Gen Surg) MEd, Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, Homerton University Hospital, Honorary Senior Lecturer, Imperial College London, Chair, Women in Surgery Forum, Royal College of Surgeons of England, Co-Lead, Working Party on Sexual Misconduct in Surgery
|
Sexual Misconduct in Surgery. What Can Be Done? |
| Thursday 14 March, 2024 | Dr Michael Powers KC, BSc, MB, BS, DA, FFFLM, LLD (Hon) | Medicine and Law – A view from both sides |
| Thursday 11 April, 2024 | Prof Rachael Mulheron KC (Hon) B.Com, LLB (Hons), LLM (Advanced) (UQ), D.Phil (Oxon) | Secondary Victims Liability in Medical Negligence: Ring-fenced or Unfenced? |
| Thursday 9 May, 2024 | Mr Philip Havers KC | Patient confidentiality – existing principles and unusual circumstances
|
| Thursday 13 June, 2024 | ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
followed by Samantha Prosser, Solicitor, Managing Associate at Brahams Dutt Badrick French LLP |
Whistleblowing in the NHS – how to best protect oneself from the costs and consequences? |
PROGRAMME for 2022-2023
ALL MEETINGS AT THE MEDICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON unless otherwise stated
but meetings will also be relayed via Zoom and recordings made available
| NAME | DATE | TITLE |
|
Simon Readhead K.C., M.A., B.C.L
|
Thursday, October 13, 2022 |
President’s address: Medicine and Law – Little Territory in Common. |
| Dr Derek Tracy, Medical Director, West London NHS Trust Senior Lecturer, King’s College London & University College London |
ONLINE ONLY VIA ZOOM
Thursday, November 10, 2022 |
Malingering: are doctors exceeding the evidence? |
|
Professor Marian Knight MA, MBChB, MPH, DPhil, FFPH, FRCPE
|
Thursday, December 8, 2022 |
Excess maternal mortality BAME women |
| Professor Neil Greenberg Professor of Defence Mental Health
|
Thursday, January 12, 2023 | Adjustment disorder, moral injury and the Case of Marine ”A” |
| Dr Gabrielle Pendlebury, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist
|
Thursday, February 9, 2023 | County Lines |
| Sir Liam Joseph Donaldson FRCSE FRCP FRCPE FMedSci FRCA. Former Chief Medical Officer for England
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Thursday, March 9, 2023 | Vaccines and Geopolitics |
| Professor Mike Tipton MBE, FTPS Professor of Human & Applied Physiology |
Thursday, April 13, 2023 | Extreme environmental physiology in the dock |
| Baroness Cumberlege CBE DL
|
Thursday, May 11, 2023 | “First do no harm” – Primodos, sodium valproate and surgical mesh |
| Dr Christine Tomkins
BSC(Hons) MBChB(Hons) DO FRCS FRCOphth FRCP MBA |
Thursday, June 8, 2023 | Tales of the Unexpected – 36 years of Medical Defence |
ANNUAL DINNER 2023 – Apothecaries’ Hall Monday 19 June 2023
For further details of the event, the speakers and to book your place, please see here.
Speakers:
Proposing the toast to Medicine: Mr. James Badenoch KC
James Badenoch was a Deputy High Court Judge, a President of the Mental Health Review Tribunal, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, Chairman Emeritus of the Expert Witness Institute and a Recorder of the Crown Court
Proposing the toast to The Law: Mr. David Badenoch DM, MCh, FEBU, FRCS(Urol).
David Badenoch was a consultant urological surgeon to St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, the Royal London Hospital and the King Edward VII Hospital for Officers. He is a Past President of the Section of Urology at the Royal Society of Medicine and was formerly a member of the Council of the Medical Defence Union
Attendance at meetings is limited to Members of the Society and their guests. However, if you would like to come to one meeting as a “Taster” before joining, please contact the secretary Evelyn Palmer at [email protected] or any other member of the Society’s Council.
