Risk: Opioid prescribing risks
Opioid addiction has reached crisis proportions in the US – but UK prescribers also face increasing risk.
Risk: Research trial pitfalls
Potential legal difficulties involving medical trials can range from participant complaints to more serious allegations of fraud. Ensure that you're research ready
Quiz - record keeping
Take our quick quiz and test your knowledge on record keeping
Poll - treating a colleague's patient
Cast your vote in our poll to find out how many clinicians make a note of when they review or prescribe for a colleague's patient
Poll - delegation
Cast your vote in our poll on General Medical Council guidance around delegation
Quiz - Confidentiality, consent, delegation
Click below to test your knowledge on these three key risk areas
Diagnosis risks: playing the odds
A recent BBC health news headline trumpeted that doctors in Britain are “missing opportunities" to spot lung cancer at an early stage, meaning one in three people with the disease dies within 90 days of diagnosis.
Risk reduction: monitoring of chronic diseases
Regular readers of our risk blogs will be aware by now that missed or delayed diagnoses are associated with a large proportion of medical negligence claims in general practice, as evidenced in the analysis of MDDUS case files.
Reducing risk - making yourself available (in more ways than one)
Working on November’s video module – Human factor risks: team communication – had me reflecting on what being available and accessible to the healthcare team actually means for a clinician. Availability and accessibility can be fairly complex issues and a lack of clinician accessibility can influence risk.
Dealing with risk: island and remote practice
In a recent BMJ article (August 14) an A&E specialist worries about deskilling and loss of confidence in carrying out procedures that used to be routine, for instance in advanced airway management because anaesthetists are increasingly called in.