Insight Secondary Q1 2022
In this issue:
- Viewpoint: Mental health - leading by example
- Risk: Providing incident statements and reports
- Advice: Preparing for Covid inquiries
- Best practice: Ensuring safe handovers between primary and secondary care
- Lowering the temperature in hostile patient encounters
- Building barriers – positive controls to improve patient safety
- The defiant doctor - the case of Dr Bonham
- Medical case study: A glass too many
- Medical case study: Change in bowel habit
- Case study: Genetic disclosure
- Dilemma: Covert recording made public
- Legal: Being a competent expert witness
- Ethics: On broken teapots and “holding” to account
- Book choice: Many different kinds of love - A story of life, death and the NHS
- Vignette: Innes Hope Pearse (1889-1978)
Practices reminded of mask rules
PRIMARY care practices are being reminded that face coverings must continue to be worn by staff and patients.
Urgent legal change needed to boost non-UK dentist registration
THERE is a “pressing need” for legal change to speed up the registration of dentists from outside the UK, the General Dental Council has said.
GMC decision makers to take account of pandemic pressures
UPDATED guidance for GMC decision makers assessing individual fitness to practise cases aims to ensure that the context of the pandemic is taken into account and decisions are “fair and proportionate to the circumstances".
MDDUS CEO warns about changes to GP indemnity options
MDDUS has reaffirmed its commitment to offer GPs occurrence-based indemnity, amid moves by other providers to withdraw it.
Dementia cases set to triple worldwide by 2050
AN estimated 153 million adults worldwide are expected to be living with dementia by 2050 compared to 57 million in 2019, according to research published in The Lancet Public Health.
Estimated 1.3 million in UK suffering long Covid
AN estimated 1.3 million people in the UK were experiencing self-reported long Covid as of 6 December 2021, according to a survey carried out by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
Earache assessed remotely
...Dr J tells Mrs P there is no need to see Zach face to face as this would not change the treatment being offered...
Beyond what's reasonable
...Ms H shouts and swears at the receptionist in front of other patients. The practice owner comes out to the waiting area and informs Ms H that her behaviour is totally unacceptable...
Need a dentist, then why ask a doctor?
A common dilemma faced by GP practices in the busy holiday season is whether to treat patients who present with dental problems. Here are some points to consider.