Ten behaviours that reduce team risk
Senior risk adviser Liz Price offers advice on some key behaviours to support risk management within your team
Practice profile: Highland lockdown
A look at how one rural practice in the North of Scotland has faced the challenge of COVID-19
Advice: How safe is your telephone triage system?
COVID-19 has changed the way in which medical practices operate, with the need to reduce risk of exposure to both staff and patients. An effective telephone triage system has become an essential tool in this new way of working
Practice matters: Holiday quarantine
Advice for managers dealing with employees facing quarantine restrictions on return from holiday
The exceptional circumstances of dealing with COVID-19 must not be forgotten
MDDUS is urging the UK Government to create an expert advisory committee to make recommendations as to how potential concerns over clinicians’ behaviour in delivering care can be considered fairly
Call log
A range of common - and not so common - queries from GPs and practice managers.
Insight Primary Q3 2020
In this issue:
- The exceptional circumstances of dealing with COVID-19 must not be forgotten
- Call log
- Practice matters: Holiday quarantine
- Advice: How safe is your telephone triage system?
- Practice profile: Highland lockdown
- Ten behaviours that reduce team risk
- Profile: Riding the planet
- Advice: Investigating a death
- Human factors: Beyond blame
- Case study: Head lump
- Case study: Earwax troubles
- Case study: Repeating risk
- Wellbeing: You are not alone
- Ethics: "Know your place"
- Book choice: Dear NHS 100 - Stories to Say Thank You
- Vignette: Frances Hoggan (1843-1927)
GMC advice on fitness to practise during COVID
THE impact of social distancing, staff shortages and working outside of normal practice should all be considered by General Medical Council staff investigating complaints against doctors.
World Patient Safety Day 2020 – comment by Chris Kenny, CEO of MDDUS
Marking World Patient Safety Day (17 September 2020), MDDUS CEO Chris Kenny explains how we promote safe patient care.
Predictable rise in bowel cancer referral waits
THE number of patients in England waiting longer than six weeks for tests to diagnose bowel cancer has risen by 60 per cent during the pandemic, according to NHS figures.