Prescribing: Action against addiction
How can dentists help patients reduce the risk of addiction and other health issues from painkiller misuse? Graeme Dixon from change management firm Agencia shares insights from an innovative new approach
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.
Book choice: The Remarkable Life of the Skin
Book review by Dr Greg Dollman
ETHICS: Connected choices
PROFESSOR Deborah Bowman considers the "fundamental connectedness" of clinicians, managers and lay members coming together to understand ethical dilemmas amidst COVID-19.
Pandemic further risks child dental health
The BDA is warning that the pandemic will increase the disparity, with the effect of lockdown diets, the suspension of public health programmes promoting the prevention of tooth decay, and high-street dental services currently running at less than a quarter of former capacity.
NHS vaccination programme in Scotland augmented with community pharmacists
COMMUNITY pharmacists in Scotland will now be providing vaccinations and immunisations following introduction of the Coronavirus Act 2020.
"Gut feelings" confirmed important in cancer diagnosis
A GP's diagnostic "gut feelings" have been demonstrated to be predictive of cancer in patients in a systematic review published by researchers from Oxford University.
Insight Dental Q3 2020
In this issue:
- Call log
- Advice: On the record
- Practice matters: Reopening your practice
- Prescribing: Action against addiction
- Feature: Lessons from a pandemic
- Risk: Ten behaviours that reduce risk
- Wellbeing: Keeping your head above water
- Case study: Drink driving offence
- Case study: Injection pain
- Case study: Post-procedure sepsis
- ETHICS: Connected choices
- Book choice: The Remarkable Life of the Skin
Notice of Annual General Meeting
Notice is hereby given of the One Hundred and Seventeenth Annual General Meeting of The Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland
Over three million in England infected with coronavirus
SIX per cent of the population in England may have antibodies for coronavirus, according to research published by Imperial College London.