Advice for doctors during industrial action
MDDUS advice for doctors in line with our commitment always to support our members with dedicated professional advice.
MDDUS urges government to go further with fixed recoverable costs reforms
MDDUS has urged the government to go further with its reform of fixed recoverable costs (FRC) in claims of clinical negligence.
Insight Primary Q3 2023
In this issue:
- Assisted dying back in the news
- MDDUS: “Tired. Concerned. Trying not to lose hope.” A report from the NHS frontline
- Risk: Safe telephone triage
- Call log
- Practice management: Probationary periods
- Leadership: Managing change - 10 essential tactics
- Candour: Is it safe to apologise?
- Practice staff: Supporting physician associates in clinical practice
- Innovation: Voice in the bank
- Case file: Redaction software for SARs
- Case file: Blood in urine
- Case file: Tick-box error
- Ethics: All for one and one for all?
- Vignette: George Northcroft (1868 – 1943)
MDDUS comments on new General Medical Council guidance
NHS leaders must support doctors to act on new GMC guidance to challenge concerning behaviour at work
Notice of Annual General Meeting
Notice is hereby given of the one hundred and twentieth Annual General Meeting of The Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland
Ethics: How should a person be?
PROFESSOR Deborah Bowman reflects on how practice makes perfect, even in ethics.
Case file: Bony infection
...It is alleged that the delayed referral resulted in Ms T having to undergo two debridement procedures...
Case file: Right tooth, wrong patient
...the nurse called the next patient and only then did Dr G realise she had consulted the wrong referral letter and therefore extracted the wrong tooth...
Advice: Keeping up with CPD
Dental practice adviser Bryony Coyle offers tips for making the most of your professional development.
Case file: Over-diagnosis allegation
...the patient accuses Dr H of "over-diagnosing" gum disease for financial gain...