Dentists struggle to clear patient backlog
ONE in three dentists are struggling to clear the backlog of patients caused by the pandemic, the findings of a new survey reveal.
NHS good but could be better in shared decision making
A SURVEY of healthcare professionals found that 76 per cent regularly practise core elements of shared decision making with patients but 28 per cent found lack of time a barrier.
Urgent need to address exodus of GPs over next five years
NEARLY 19,000 GPs and trainees are expected to leave the profession over the next five years unless action is taken ease workload and workforce pressures, according to a survey by the Royal College of GPs.
Insight Primary Q2 2022
In this issue:
- Viewpoint: A lifetime perspective
- Call log
- Practice management: One of my employees is pregnant – what do we both need to do?
- Advice: Redacting sensitive information from health records
- Conflict with colleagues – nipping issues in the bud
- Informal advice or crossing a line?
- Professionalism in action: tackling the waiting lists
- Responding to online practice criticism
- How the physician to the gladiators became the father of modern medicine
- Wellbeing: No healthcare without self care
- Medical case study: Vaccine error
- Case study: Inappropriate DNACPR request
- Case study: Persistent swelling
- Dilemma: Off label request
- Ethics: A girl I used to know - on Derry Girls and ethical development
- Book choice: Hybrid Humans - Dispatches from the frontiers of man and machine
- Vignette: John T Shepherd (1919-2011)
Case study: Inappropriate DNACPR request
...Mr J asks his GP for a DNACPR order despite having no underlying condition that suggests he is near the end of his life...
Ethics: A girl I used to know - on Derry Girls and ethical development
Professor Deborah Bowman watches hit TV series Derry Girls and reflects on the way our values and ethical principles develop from childhood to adulthood.
Concern over Covid-19 backlog as one in three dentists report being unable to clear backlog of patients
One in three dentists are struggling to clear the backlog of patients caused by the pandemic, the findings of a new MDDUS survey reveal.
Wellbeing: No healthcare without self care
Susannah Basile discusses the work of charity Doctors in Distress.
How the physician to the gladiators became the father of modern medicine
Allan Gaw tells the story of Galen, the legendary doctor who changed the face of medicine
Responding to online practice criticism
Risk adviser Kay Louise Grant offers advice on handling unfavourable online comments.