MDDUS is urging the UK Government to create an expert advisory committee to make recommendations as to how potential concerns over clinicians’ behaviour in delivering care can be considered fairly

A range of common - and not so common - queries from GPs and practice managers.

Advice for managers dealing with employees facing quarantine restrictions on return from holiday

COVID-19 has changed the way in which medical practices operate, with the need to reduce risk of exposure to both staff and patients. An effective telephone triage system has become an essential tool in this new way of working

A look at how one rural practice in the North of Scotland has faced the challenge of COVID-19

Senior risk adviser Liz Price offers advice on some key behaviours to support risk management within your team

Adventurist and emergency medicine doctor Stephen Fabes talks to Adam Campbell about his six-year quest to cycle the world

Key advice on how to prepare and write a report for an investigation into a patient’s death – first in a two-part series

Professor Peter McCulloch describes the benefits of a human factors approach to investigating medical error.

...Dr N receives a letter of claim alleging clinical negligence in failing to refer Mrs J immediately to a consultant neurologist to investigate the bony lump...

...Mrs L complains that the drops are obviously not working and asks why Dr M cannot syringe the ears...

...It transpires that Mrs H had been prescribed diclofenac on repeat for 12 years...

Dr Zaid Al-Najjar, deputy medical director of NHS Practitioner Health, discusses how the service can help

Professor Deborah Bowman looks at how hierarchy among medical professionals can create a structure within which asking questions and challenging practice may be perceived as risky or even ‘inappropriate’

Book review by Dr Greg Dollman

Pioneering physician, researcher and social reformer