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Q2 2022
In this issue:
- Viewpoint: A lifetime perspective
- Call log
- Practice management: One of my employees is pregnant – what do we both need to do?
- Advice: Redacting sensitive information from health records
- Conflict with colleagues – nipping issues in the bud
- Informal advice or crossing a line?
- Professionalism in action: tackling the waiting lists
- Responding to online practice criticism
- How the physician to the gladiators became the father of modern medicine
- Wellbeing: No healthcare without self care
- Case study: Vaccine error
- Case study: Inappropriate DNACPR request
- Case study: Persistent swelling
- Dilemma: Off label request
- Ethics: A girl I used to know - on Derry Girls and ethical development
- Book choice: Hybrid Humans - Dispatches from the frontiers of man and machine
- Vignette: John T Shepherd (1919-2011)
Q2 2022
In this issue:
- Call log
- Practice management: Dressing the part
- Advice: Who needs a mentor?
- Practice matters: Keep complaint records separate
- Tackling the backlog
- Conflict with colleagues – nipping issues in the bud
- Responding to online practice criticism
- Pitfalls in composite bonding
- No man’s land - the pioneering women of WW1
- Case study: Slow healing socket
- Dental case study: Adverse comment
- Dental case study: Dental insurance cover
- Dilemma: Covert recording made public
- Ethics: Lessons learned - ethical and educational
- Book choice: Recovery – The Lost Art of Convalescence
- Vignette: Elsie Widdowson (1906-2000)
Q2 2022
In this issue:
- Viewpoint: Change is all around us
- Avoiding “baked in” bias in AI healthcare applications
- Conflict with colleagues – nipping issues in the bud
- Professionalism in action: tackling the waiting lists
- Informal advice or crossing a line?
- Resilient practice – addressing human factors
- No man’s land - the pioneering women of WW1
- Medical case study: Vaccine error
- Medical case study: Post-op tooth pain
- Medical case study: Friendly care
- Wellbeing: No healthcare without self care
- Ethics: Lessons learned - ethical and educational
- Book choice: Recovery – The Lost Art of Convalescence
- Vignette: Elsie Widdowson (1906-2000)
Q1 2022
In this issue:
- Viewpoint: Change is all around us
- Call log
- Practice management: Dressing the part
- Advice: Need a dentist, then why ask a doctor?
- Best practice: Ensuring safe handovers between primary and secondary care
- Practice matters: Keep complaint records separate
- Pitfalls in spotting cauda equina syndrome
- Resilient practice – addressing human factors
- A time of constant change - two years of Covid
- No man’s land - the pioneering women of WW1
- Case study: An inconvenient “mole”
- Case study: Back pain
- Case study: Long-term diazepam prescription
- Dilemma: Covert recording made public
- Ethics: Lessons learned - ethical and educational
- Book choice: Recovery – The Lost Art of Convalescence
- Vignette: Elsie Widdowson (1906-2000)
Q1 2022
In this issue:
- Call log
- Practice management: Menopause and the workplace
- Advice: Snakes and ladders – the path to success
- Risk: Disclosure of dental patient records
- Coping with Covid – the top 6 challenges
- Referrals - who, why, when, how?
- Resilient practice – addressing human factors
- Pitfalls in short-term orthodontics
- Case study: Antibiotic cover
- Dental case study: Alleged wrong extraction
- Ethics: On broken teapots and “holding” to account
- Book choice: Many different kinds of love - A story of life, death and the NHS
- Vignette: Innes Hope Pearse (1889-1978)
Q1 2022
In this issue:
- Viewpoint: Mental health - leading by example
- Risk: Providing incident statements and reports
- Advice: Preparing for Covid inquiries
- Best practice: Ensuring safe handovers between primary and secondary care
- Lowering the temperature in hostile patient encounters
- Building barriers – positive controls to improve patient safety
- The defiant doctor - the case of Dr Bonham
- Medical case study: A glass too many
- Medical case study: Change in bowel habit
- Case study: Genetic disclosure
- Dilemma: Covert recording made public
- Legal: Being a competent expert witness
- Ethics: On broken teapots and “holding” to account
- Book choice: Many different kinds of love - A story of life, death and the NHS
- Vignette: Innes Hope Pearse (1889-1978)
Q4 2021
In this issue:
- Viewpoint: Mental health - leading by example
- Call log
- Risk: Providing incident statements and reports
- Practice management: Menopause and the workplace
- Finding PPE that's fit for all
- Pitfalls in assessing fever in children
- Lowering the temperature in hostile patient encounters
- Innovation: Getting at healthcare data "locked" in NHS records
- The defiant doctor - the case of Dr Bonham
- Case study: Earache assessed remotely
- Case study: Mind your language
- Case study: Missed meningitis
- Dilemma: Alleged prescription fraud
- Ethics: On broken teapots and “holding” to account
- Book choice: Many different kinds of love - A story of life, death and the NHS
- Vignette: Innes Hope Pearse (1889-1978)
Q4 2021
In this issue:
- Wellbeing: Introducing YourHalo
- Call log
- Employment law: Sexual harassment in the workplace
- Risk: What's up with WhatsApp
- Advice: Know your patient – tips to avoid complaints
- Complaints handling: Proactive response to patient complaints
- Lowering the temperature in hostile patient encounters
- Breaking up is hard to do
- Finding PPE that's fit for all
- Case study: Beyond what's reasonable
- Case study: Lip trauma
- Case study: Emergency backlog
- Legal: Being a competent expert witness
- Ethics: "Please not another toolkit": on meeting ethical distress
- Book choice: The Sleeping Beauties - And Other Stories of Mystery Illness
- Vignette: Pat O'Callaghan (1906-1991)
Q4 2021
In this issue:
- Viewpoint: Looking after our own
- Finding PPE that's fit for all
- Innovation: Getting at healthcare data "locked" in NHS records
- Reducing risk in clinical handover
- Risk: What's up with WhatsApp?
- Improving self awareness to reduce risk
- A difficult decision - the case of Anthony Bland
- Medical case study: A statement of fact
- Medical case study: Misleading melanoma
- Medical case study: Wound care accusation
- Ethics: "Please not another toolkit": on meeting ethical distress
- Book choice: The Sleeping Beauties - And Other Stories of Mystery Illness
- Vignette: Pat O'Callaghan (1906-1991)
Q3 2021
In this issue:
- Viewpoint: Looking after our own
- Call log
- Risk: What's up with WhatsApp?
- Practice management: Sexual harassment in the workplace
- Regulatory matters: Working without professional registration
- Advice: Safety netting
- Complaints handling: Proactive response to patient complaints
- Innovation: Smartphone technology in chronic disease management
- Improving self awareness to reduce risk
- A difficult decision - the case of Anthony Bland
- Case study: Consent to vaccinate
- Case study: Misinterpreted result
- Case study: Wrist injury
- Dilemma: Making yourself your first concern
- Ethics: "Please not another toolkit": on meeting ethical distress
- Book choice: The Sleeping Beauties - And Other Stories of Mystery Illness
- Vignette: Pat O'Callaghan (1906-1991)