Communication problems key for overseas doctors failing MRCGP
COMMUNICATION difficulties are a key factor behind higher failure rates amongst overseas doctors in the membership examination of the Royal College of General Practitioners (MRCGP), according to new research.
Patient access to digital records by 2017
PATIENTS in England will be able to access their own GP records online from spring 2015 and will have full access to care records by 2017, according to a report published by the National Information Board.
Nominations open for BMJ Awards 2015
NOMINATIONS have opened for the prestigious BMJ Awards 2015, celebrating outstanding achievement in the medical profession.
Visiting dentists now named online
OVERSEAS dentists who are in the UK for temporary work or for educational roles are now displayed on the General Dental Council online register.
Doctors urged to prescribe antivirals in severe flu
PATIENTS suffering from severe flu this winter should be treated with antivirals despite concerns over efficacy, according to new guidance from Public Health England.
Medical practices urged to link up
MEDICAL practices need to evolve into "super GP practices" or networks that can pool resources and draw in specialist expertise from other professionals like pharmacists, geriatricians and psychiatrists.
Decrease in emergency admissions via GPs
EMERGENCY admissions to hospital via A&E departments increased markedly in England over a ten year period to 2011 while those via GPs decreased, according to analysis published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine.
Language checks for dentists
LANGUAGE checks are set to be introduced for European dentists coming to the UK under new government proposals.
Graduates should be fully registered doctors, report says
TRAINEES should be fully registered as doctors when they graduate from medical school rather than at the end of their first year of foundation training, according to an ambitious new report.
EU reform on cross-border clinicians
AN alert system will be introduced across Europe requiring health regulators to warn each other within three days when a doctor or other health professional has been removed from a medical or dental register or had restrictions placed on his or her practice.