Professional boundaries: A step too far?
Maintaining appropriate boundaries with patients is key for doctors – but sometimes the right course of action is not so clear. Dr Naeem Nazem offers some advice
Revalidation requirements need greater clarity
A NEW review of medical revalidation urges greater clarity in required supporting information, as well as re-doubled efforts to reduce workload and duplication for GPs also engaged with the CQC and NHSE in England.
New app for GMC guidance
AN app that allows healthcare professionals to conveniently access Good medial practice (GMP) guidance has been launched by the GMC.
Dental patients resort to A&E
THE cost of dental patients attending for treatment at hospital A&Es could be ten times government estimates, according to new research.
GDC to “support and empower” dental profession
PREVENTION will form the focus of activity at the General Dental Council as the regulator promises a system that is fairer for dental professionals and safer for patients.
GPs not best placed in A&E, says RCGP
PROPOSALS to place GPs in emergency departments to treat patients with minor illnesses could actually increase pressure on A&E services.
Surgical infection
...Mr K later re-attends the district nurse and she phones Dr R to report that the knee is now hot and swollen and the sutures have burst in two places – but the patient is weight-bearing...
Off the register
A lapsed professional registration is not worth the trouble to you or your staff.
Proposed 'safe space' needs further work
MDDUS believes the proposed development of a 'safe space' to protect staff in healthcare safety investigations requires further definition as interventions which are high on rhetoric and low on detailed statutory and implementation planning run the risk of being counter-productive.
Significant drop in cancer deaths predicted over next two decades
CANCER deaths are expected to drop by 15 per cent over the next 20 years, according to figures released by Cancer Research UK.