Looking ahead
New CEO, Chris Kenny, offers a perspective on some of the challenges ahead both for MDDUS and UK healthcare in general
Receptionists managing access to clinicians – interactive risk exercise
AN interactive risk exercise focusing on the receptionist’s role in managing patient access to clinicians is now available on MDDUS website.
Dentists urged to ensure clarity over treatment costs
DENTISTS are reminded to ensure treatment options and costs are clearly explained prior to treatment being provided to avoid disagreements with patients.
The price of perfection
Is it fair to criticise the so-called "destructodontics" of aesthetic dentistry? MDDUS dental adviser Doug Hamilton offers a perspective in an article from the Spring 2015 issue of Summon
A reasonable patient
A case argued before the Supreme Court in London has clarified the legal position of informed consent. Here medical adviser Dr Gail Gilmartin looks at the judgment
Clinical risk reduction: The forgotten foot
Professor Graham Leese looks at pitfalls in identifying diabetics at risk of lower limb complications leading to amputation
Risk: Where do claims occur in primary care?
The MDDUS risk team have been researching the most common risk areas that lead to claims for negligence in general medical practice.
Speaking freely
Jim Killgore reports on proposed new measures to protect whistleblowers
Vignette: Doctor and poet Robert Seymour Bridges (1844-1930)
ONLY one medical graduate can claim the honour of being named Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom – and that was Robert Bridges.
Practice and corporate scheme membership
Members who have Practice or Corporate Scheme Membership with MDDUS should note that it is their responsibility to ensure that membership is being adequately maintained.