Best practice: Ensuring safe handovers between primary and secondary care
MDDUS medical adviser Dr Annabelle MacGregor looks at some common pitfalls in the handover of patient care between primary and secondary care.
Advice: Need a dentist, then why ask a doctor?
A common dilemma faced by GP practices - particularly in holiday periods - is whether to treat patients who present with dental problems.
Call log
A range of common - and not so common - queries from GPs and practice managers.
Resilient practice – addressing human factors
Head of training Liz Price discusses how ‘human factors’ hold the key to creating safer systems.
Viewpoint: Mental health - leading by example
MDDUS chief medical officer Dr John Holden has seen plenty of change over his career as a GP, and in this article he considers that against the transformative change brought by the pandemic.
Insight Primary Q1 2022
In this issue:
- Viewpoint: Mental health - leading by example
- Call log
- Practice management: Dressing the part
- Advice: Need a dentist, then why ask a doctor?
- Best practice: Ensuring safe handovers between primary and secondary care
- Practice matters: Keep complaint records separate
- Pitfalls in spotting cauda equina syndrome
- Resilient practice – addressing human factors
- A time of constant change - two years of Covid
- No man’s land - the pioneering women of WW1
- Case study: An inconvenient “mole”
- Case study: Back pain
- Case study: Long-term diazepam prescription
- Dilemma: Covert recording made public
- Ethics: Lessons learned - ethical and educational
- Book choice: Recovery – The Lost Art of Convalescence
- Vignette: Elsie Widdowson (1906-2000)
Doctors asked for views on workplace learning
DOCTORS across the UK are being urged to share their views on workplace learning, support and supervision for the General Medical Council’s annual training survey.
Death certification easements to end
EASEMENTS to death certification processes and cremation forms introduced by the Coronavirus Act 2020 will expire at midnight on 24 March 2022 in England, although some changes will be retained.
Call for eight-week delay in giving patients online records access
PLANS to give patients in England online access to their healthcare records should be delayed by at least eight weeks, the Royal College of GPs has said.
GMC has “long way to go” in tackling inequality
THE GMC has reported a "slight" reduction in the gap between employer referral rates for ethnic minority doctors and international medical graduates compared to white doctors in its first update on equality, diversity and inclusion targets.