Practice matters: Holiday quarantine
Employment law adviser Janice Sibbald offers advice for managers dealing with employees facing quarantine restrictions on return from holiday
Advice: New CQC regulatory approach for dental practices
The CQC’s new regulatory approach for dental practices has now started
Viewpoint: Covid-19 has caused regulatory corners to be cut
MDDUS CEO Chris Kenny spoke at a recent Professional Standards Authority symposium, looking at some of the key changes that regulators have made in response to the pandemic.
Call log
These cases are based on actual calls made to MDDUS advisers and are published here to highlight common challenges within dental practice. Details have been changed to maintain confidentiality.
Insight Dental Q4 2020
In this issue:
- Viewpoint: Covid-19 has caused regulatory corners to be cut
- Call log
- Advice: New CQC regulatory approach for dental practices
- Practice matters: Holiday quarantine
- Good record keeping essential with remote consulting
- Risk: Domestic abuse and remote consulting
- Profile: Riding the planet
- First person: A Covid journey
- THINGS DENTISTS SAY... “I can only do things one way”
- Professionalism in practice
- Case study: Debonded retainer
- Case Study: Broken file
- Case study: Near miss
- Wellbeing: You are not alone
- Ethics: "Know your place"
- Book choice: Dear NHS 100 - Stories to Say Thank You
Covid-19 brings rise in antibiotic prescribing by dental practices
ANTIBIOTIC prescribing by dentists in England between April to July 2020 was 25 per cent higher than the same period in 2019, with a peak in June 2020, according to data analysed by researchers at the University of Manchester.
Majority of GPs struggling to provide sufficient level of care
MORE than 80 per cent of GPs have struggled to provide a patient with a sufficient level of care in 2020, according to new figures from the General Medical Council.
URGENT: NHS Scotland email migration
MDDUS is aware that the email addresses of NHS staff in Scotland are currently being migrated.
New HIV diagnoses in gay men at 20-year low
HIV diagnoses in gay and bisexual men in 2019 outnumbered new diagnoses in heterosexual adults by only 100 cases, according new report by Public Health England.
RCGP calls for suspension of GP appraisal
THE Royal College of GPs governing council has passed a motion calling for suspension of GP appraisal for the duration of the Covid-19 pandemic.