Case study - Speeding offence
...Mr K receives a speeding ticket but is unsure whether he is required to inform the GMC...
Case study - Call to witness
...Dr F is asked by police to give a witness statement for an alleged assault victim...
Avoiding addiction
How can hospitals reduce the risk of triggering addiction when prescribing opioids to patients?
Dealing with the press
Risk adviser Kay Louise Grant offers advice on responding to media requests.
Insight Secondary Q3 2020
In this issue:
- Digital vision
- Dealing with the press
- Ten behaviours that reduce team risk
- Beyond blame
- Avoiding addiction
- Lessons from a pandemic
- Case study - Call to witness
- Case study - Missed fracture
- Case study - Speeding offence
- Keeping your spirits up
- ETHICS: Connected choices
- Book choice: The Remarkable Life of the Skin
- Vignette: John W Thompson (1906-1965)
Vignette: John W Thompson (1906-1965)
Psychiatrist who defined medical war crimes
Remote GP services should not become the norm
GENERAL practice post-lockdown must offer a range of access options or risk isolating some patients, says the chair of the Royal College of GPs.
GDC prepared to be flexible on CPD
THE GDC has stated that dental professionals with a shortfall in required CPD at the end of this month will not be penalised if attributable to difficulties related to the COVID-19 outbreak.
Lockdown takes significant mental health toll
NEARLY a fifth of people reported having thoughts of self-harm or suicide during the first month of lockdown but less than half of those received mental health support, according to a study published in the British Journal of Psychiatry.
NHS faces daunting backlog in non-COVID treatment
OVER a million planned operations and treatments and over 20,000 cancer treatments in England have been cancelled or delayed between April and the end of June due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to research published by the BMA.