Risk: What's up with WhatsApp?
MESSAGING apps might seem an obvious choice for communicating with patients, but it is essential that professional standards are not diluted simply because we are behind a keyboard or phone
Call log
A range of common - and not so common - queries from GPs and practice managers.
Viewpoint: Looking after our own
MDDUS chief medical officer Dr John Holden observes that doctors have unique characteristics that make them vulnerable to the stresses that arise in dealing with the profound needs of others, and the profession must strive more to “look after our own”
Insight Primary Q3 2021
In this issue:
- Viewpoint: Looking after our own
- Call log
- Risk: What's up with WhatsApp?
- Practice management: Sexual harassment in the workplace
- Regulatory matters: Working without professional registration
- Advice: Safety netting
- Complaints handling: Proactive response to patient complaints
- Innovation: Smartphone technology in chronic disease management
- Improving self awareness to reduce risk - practical advice on reflective practice
- A difficult decision - the case of Anthony Bland
- Case study: Consent to vaccinate
- Case study: Misinterpreted result
- Case study: Wrist injury
- Dilemma: Making yourself your first concern
- Ethics: On meeting ethical distress
- Book choice: The Sleeping Beauties - And Other Stories of Mystery Illness
- Vignette: Pat O'Callaghan (1906-1991)
Sending patient records to MDDUS
MDDUS would like to remind members and their staff to consider carefully whether it is truly necessary to send us medical and dental records in relation to a complaint.
Records check following cervical screening error
THE records of almost 200,000 women excluded from the cervical screening programme in Scotland are to be individually reviewed after it was found some had been left out in error.
Tenth of prescriptions in England “inappropriate”
AN estimated 10 per cent of items dispensed in primary care are "overprescribed", with 15 per cent of people taking five or more medicines a day, according to a Government-commissioned review.
ONS data shows risk of Covid death lower for vaccinated
RISK of death involving Covid-19 has been found to be consistently lower for people who received two vaccinations compared to one or no vaccination, according to data published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
Advice issued on topical steroid withdrawal reactions
PATIENTS using topical steroid for long-periods of time can suffer severe skin withdrawal symptoms and should take advice from a healthcare professional, says the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).
Covid and employment law: latest updates
READ the latest advice on Covid-related employment law issues, including self-isolation rules, holidays and staff vaccination.