Mental health of Welsh dentists worsens
THE mental health of dentists in Wales further declined towards the end of 2021, as increasing admin tasks forced most clinicians to work without proper breaks.
NHS dental treatments in Scotland below pre-pandemic levels
DENTAL contacts and treatments in Scotland have not yet fully recovered to pre-pandemic levels, according to a report from Public Health Scotland.
MDDUS comments on health and social care report into clinical negligence reform
MDDUS director of professional services and general counsel Emma Parfitt welcomes the committee's report and urges government to speed up clinical negligence reform.
Emergency GMC registration for pandemic response to end in September
THE GMC has announced that temporary emergency registration given to doctors as part of the pandemic response will close on 30 September 2022.
Insight Secondary Q2 2022
In this issue:
- Viewpoint: Mental health - leading by example
- Avoiding “baked in” bias in AI healthcare applications
- Conflict with colleagues – nipping issues in the bud
- Professionalism in action: tackling the waiting lists
- Informal advice or crossing a line?
- Resilient practice – addressing human factors
- No man’s land - the pioneering women of WW1
- Medical case study: Vaccine error
- Medical case study: Post-op tooth pain
- Medical case study: Friendly care
- Wellbeing: No healthcare without self care
- Ethics: Lessons learned - ethical and educational
- Book choice: Recovery – The Lost Art of Convalescence
- Vignette: Elsie Widdowson (1906-2000)
New resource to support refugee mental health
A NEW resource offering advice on supporting asylum seekers and refugees with their mental health has been launched by the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
Medical case study: Friendly care
...the GMC writes to Ms S informing her that concerns have been raised over her fitness to practise in connection with prescriptions supplied to a friend...
Medical case study: Post-op tooth pain
...Mr K submits a letter of complaint asking if his tooth was knocked when he was being administered the general anaesthetic for his surgery...
Medical case study: Vaccine error
...Dr M administers the vaccine but later realises he has given the patient the wrong one...
Vignette: Elsie Widdowson (1906-2000)
Pioneering nutritionist who developed and tested wartime rations