Statutory rates set to rise
THE rate of statutory maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental pay is set to increase at the beginning of next month.
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THE Employment Law team at MDDUS have a range of useful documentation available.
Q1 2017
In this issue:
- Briefing: Can we reduce overtreatment?
- Risk: Free will in consent
- The accidental editor
- Making a medical app
- Dementia friendly dentistry
- DILEMMA: Do I accept a “Friend” request from a patient?
- Ethics: A vice-like grip on virtue
- Book choice: A is for arsenic
- Vignette: Innovator in palliative care, Dame Cicely Saunders
MDDUS response to discount rate change in Scotland
MDDUS chief executive Chris Kenny responds to the Scottish Government’s announcement today to follow the decision made in England by the Lord Chancellor and cut the discount rate applied to personal injury claims from 2.5% to -0.75%.
Dementia friendly dentistry
Dental care for patients with dementia presents some obvious challenges – but also opportunities
Ethics: A vice-like grip on virtue
Can virtues become vices in healthcare – and vice versa?
Making a medical app
What goes into the development and testing of a medical app? Here Matt Wickenden describes how one innovative app was custom created for use by respiratory specialists
The accidental editor
Adam Campbell meets Dr Fiona Godlee - the forthright BMJ editor not afraid to take a stand
Vignette: Innovator in palliative care, Dame Cicely Saunders
Julia Merrick recounts the life and career of this unique physician
Briefing: Can we reduce overtreatment?
A new campaign aims to address “over-medicalisation” and increase patient involvement in decision-making. But what does that mean in practical terms?