Candour and colleague concerns
Doug Hamilton draws a distinction between the duty of candour and raising concerns over patient safety in dental practice
Dilemma: How do I respond to a non-compliant patient wanting a repeat prescription?
HOW do you respond to a non-compliant patient wanting a repeat prescription? Dr Gail Gilmartin offers some advice.
Doctor at the deep end
Jim Killgore chats with Dr Peter Cawston – a GP at the coalface of health and social care integration in Scotland
Ethics: Asking why
The ‘why’ of our behaviour reminds us what matters in a profession and a clinical encounter
Briefing: An endless weekend effect?
“Evidence does exist to support a ‘weekend effect’ but the real question is how do you tease out the causes and come up with an appropriate response."
Risk: Can reflective practice be “incriminating”?
ALL healthcare professionals today are actively encouraged to engage in reflective practice but some MDDUS members have expressed worries that taking part in formal procedures might "incriminate" them should a complaint or claim arise.
Call log
These cases are based on actual advice calls made to MDDUS advisers and are published here to highlight common challenges within practice management.
Employment law: Patients as employees
How do you keep within the law when it becomes necessary to make staff redundant?
A step too far?
Maintaining appropriate boundaries with patients is a key obligation for doctors and other healthcare professionals – but would you recognise a GP overstepping the mark?
Case study: Sealed envelope
...Later that day Mrs J opens the envelope to read the referral letter and discovers the child protection disclosure naming her sister-in-law as the source...