Summer Social 2022: Florence Nightingale Heritage Walk & Lunch
We are delighted to invite you to join us for this year’s summer social, the (rather delayed) Florence Nightingale Heritage Walk which also includes a visit to Lea Hurst, her family’s Derbyshire home.
Date: Sunday 26th June 2022
Time: 11am
Meeting place: High Peak Junction car park, Lea Road, Lea Bridge
Outline:
- Walk along Cromford Canal and through Lea Wood up to Lea Hurst
- Meet Peter Kay, owner of Lea Hurst
- Tour of gardens, access to key rooms in house and see Nightingale related features
- Proceed along route of the Heritage route, passing various points of interest
- Lunch stop at Jug & Glass pub (members may join us here if not wanting/able to participate in the walk)
- Continue along Heritage route
- Return to car park
The walk will be approx. 4 miles with some inclines, but we will take it at a steady pace, not a route march!
All those who are interested please email for further information.
2021-2022 Session
Welcome back to the Derby Medical Society 2021-2022 Session. The President for this year is Dr Alastair McCance. We welcome all doctors, medical students and senior healthcare practitioners to join us as at meetings and we encourage membership.
We take the safety of our members and guests seriously; COVID has not gone away and we have taken some safety steps:
- There will be drinks and nibbles available before meetings in the Medical School foyer at 6:30pm. These will be individually packaged.
- Derby Medical School Lecture theatre is spacious, and we ask that you leave a seat between yourself and other guests.
- For members and guests who are unable to attend the meeting in person we are anticipating that we will be able to broadcast the meeting via Zoom (further details linked in the table below).
Please find below a programme of events – all meetings start at 7pm.
– The Derby Medical Society Council.
Events 2021-22
| Date | Title | Speaker | Book |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thursday 7th October 2021 | Chronic Kidney Disease: A Silent Pandemic” | Professor Maarten Taal Professor of Medicine, Royal Derby Hospital | Eventbrite Zoom |
| Thursday 21st October 2021 | Presidential Address | Dr Alastair McCance Consultant Cardiologist, Royal Derby Hospital | Zoom Eventbrite |
| Wednesday 10th November 2021 [UPDATED DATE] | “The Inside track of being inside The House” | Pauline Latham, OBE Member of Parliament for Mid Derbyshire | Zoom Eventbrite Microsoft Teams |
| Wednesday 1st December 2021 | “Mitral valve surgery” | Mr Stephen Billing Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Royal Wolverhampton Hospital | Zoom/Teams Eventbrite |
| Thursday 13th January 2022 | Annual Presentation Evening: Clinical Cases Poster Display Awards for Medical student elective bursaries | Junior Doctors | Zoom/Teams Eventbrite |
| Thursday 27th January 2022 | “Type 2 diabetes: from at risk to symptomatic HFpEF” | Professor Gerry McCann Professor of Cardiac Imaging, Leicester University | Zoom/Teams Eventbrite |
| Thursday 10th February 2022 | “We’re going to need a bigger boat” | Professor Andrew Goddard President Royal College of Physicians | Zoom/Teams Eventbrite |
| Thursday 24th February 2022 | “A Life in Cardiology and Research” | Professor Sir Nilesh Samani Professor of Cardiology, Leicester University | Zoom/Teams Eventbrite |
| Thursday 10th March 2022 | “Non-surgical Aortic Valve Replacement” followed by the Annual General Meeting | Dr Julia Baron Consultant Cardiologist, Royal Derby Hospital | Zoom/Teams Eventbrite |
| Thursday 7th April 2022 | The Passion of Christ: A Forensic Medical Perspective | Dr Robert Hunter Senior Coroner for Derbyshire | Zoom/Teams Eventbrite |
Welcome to Derby Medical Society!
Welcome to the Derby Medical Society website. The society was founded in 1862 for the purpose of bringing together medical practitioners from the many diverse branches of medicine to discuss the medical science of the day and to present and discuss cases of interest to its members.
To this day, the society maintains the spirit and motivation of its founders through the presentation of a yearly lecture series featuring keynote speakers from all walks of medicine, many of whom have world renowned reputations in their field. Additionally, the society has a proud tradition of supporting the medical community through its long standing association with the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund and through the provision of bursaries and awards for medical students and trainees.
Key links
- For dates of upcoming events/meetings, please go to calendar/programme. News on the next meeting is also available in the sidebar on the right or at the bottom of this page.
- To see information on the current president, please follow this link.
- To join Derby Medical Society or to register for an online account, please click here.
