Employment law: Staff refusing Covid-19 vaccination
Employment law adviser Liz Symon considers the difficult question of what to do when practice staff choose not to be vaccinated against coronavirus
Call log
A range of common - and not so common - queries from GPs and practice managers.
Viewpoint: Fine balance needed with remote consultations
MDDUS chief medical officer Dr John Holden offers a viewpoint on how Covid-19 has changed the way GPs interact with patients and the risks these changes pose.
Insight Primary Q1 2021
In this issue:
- Viewpoint: Fine balance needed with remote consultations
- Call log
- Employment law: Staff refusing Covid-19 vaccination
- Covert recording in a time of Covid
- Domestic abuse and remote consulting
- Social media risks
- Nothing but the truth
- Volunteer vaccinator
- “A responsible body of medical men”
- Case study: RTA disclosure
- Case study: Dizzy episodes
- Case study Patient warning letter
- Reflective practice
- Ethics: On moral distress
- Book choice: Intensive care
- Vignette: Baldev Kaushal (1906-1992)
Take the opportunity to protect clinicians' health and wellbeing - MDDUS
MDDUS has commented on the publication today (25 March 2021) of a Department of Health and Social Care consultation on the future of healthcare regulation
NHS workforce needs time, training and support to recover
Dr Naeem Nazem, head of MDDUS' medical division, has commented on a report from NHS Confederation warning that thousands of NHS staff will quit unless they are supported to recover from the impact of the pandemic.
CQC finds “worrying variation” in DNACPR decisions
WORRYING variation in the use of do not attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation (DNACPR) decisions during the pandemic has been identified by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) in a new report.
Long Covid "more prevalent than expected" in women
LONG Covid appears to be more prevalent in women and in young people (including children) than might have been expected from acute Covid-19 mortality, according research cited by the National Institute for Health Research Centre for Engagement and Dissemination (NIHR) in a second “themed review” on the condition.
Protect doctors and dentists from open ended and damaging investigations
Medical defence specialist MDDUS has today (11 March 2021) called for improvements to the way doctors and dentists are regulated to protect them from open-ended and damaging investigations.
New medical roles for defence specialist MDDUS
MDDUS has today (11 March 2021) announced several new appointments that will strengthen its Medical Division.