Confidentiality for hospital doctors
This course is aimed at hospital doctors and provides 45 minutes of verifiable CPD and members will receive an MDDUS certificate. RCP accreditation has been applied for.
How can social prescribing support mental health?
MDDUS Medical Adviser Roopinder Brar looks at how social prescribing can support mental health.
Fall in melanoma diagnoses worrying
A FALL in melanoma diagnoses by 28 per cent in April to November 2020 has experts worried that fewer people with suspicious skin lesions are seeing their GP.
Trainee doctors suffer with psychological impact of pandemic
MORE than 40 per cent of junior doctors said they were suffering from depression, anxiety, stress or burnout which had worsened because of the pandemic in survey conducted in April 2021 by the BMA.
Nerve injury
...Mr J returns to Dr N over a week later complaining of numbness in his lip and tongue...
Making decisions about CPR
Doctors will be familiar with the difficult challenge of dealing with advance decisions on the resuscitation of patients (DNACPR decisions) - more particularly so during the pandemic. What key issues need to be considered?
Colleague intervention
...Dr P is accused of being abusive, insulting, ill-tempered and unprofessional. Dr B is specifically criticised for failing to intervene...
GDC defends use of undercover investigations
THE General Dental Council has defended its use of undercover investigations and not ruled out future use if merited by potential public risk, and if there is no other way to investigate an allegation.
Taskforce to prioritise antivirals development
A TASKFORCE has been launched by the UK Government to identify antiviral treatments for patients exposed to Covid-19 to stop the infection spreading and speed up recovery time.
Action needed to boost vaccine uptake amongst health workers
TACKLING misinformation and mistrust is key to reducing Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy amongst healthcare workers, a new UK study has found.