Practice management: Probationary periods
Find out what you need to know when trialling new employees.
Call log
A range of common - and not so common - queries from GPs and practice managers.
Risk: Safe telephone triage
Triage systems are increasingly being used in primary care to manage the growing demand and strain – but how can you ensure they are safe and effective?
MDDUS: “Tired. Concerned. Trying not to lose hope.” A report from the NHS frontline
MDDUS members shared their experience of working for the health service as part of our review of 2022.
Assisted dying back in the news
A bill to change the law in Scotland is due to be introduced this year - but what is the current law on assisted dying across the UK and how does it impact medical professionals?
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