Burnout risks patient safety
There is a well-established causal relationship between reduced clinician wellbeing and increased patient safety incidents - and the rise in the incidence and severity of reported burnout is concerning
Pandemic impact on wait for breast reconstructive surgery
NEW research has found that 51 per cent of breast cancer patients surveyed in the UK said that the Covid-19 pandemic had a ‘significant impact’ on their wait for and experience of breast reconstruction surgery.
RCGP signals warning on timescale for online record access
NHS England must carefully consider the 1 November timescale for granting patients automatic access to their prospective records, says the Royal College of GPs.
Viewpoint: End the silence
We need to talk about suicide.
Vignette: John Boyd Orr (1880-1971)
John Boyd Orr - Physician, nutritionist and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
Ethics: Out of office – the ethics of taking a break
To ensure that staff take holidays is to avoid ethical dissonance between the rhetoric of ‘wellbeing’ and the realities of burnout and breakdown.
First person: A long road
Professor John Gibson tells how he and his family responded to their grief over a devastating loss by undertaking an audacious challenge to raise awareness of suicide prevention.
Book choice: Am I normal?
Review of the new book by Sarah Chaney.
Advice: Unwanted advances
How would you deal with the difficult situation of a patient making romantic advances?
Case file: A rare complication
...during surgery to remove kidney stones a ureteral avulsion occurs and emergency surgery is carried out to repair the damage...