Ask the Expert: Do I need to give staff extra bank holidays?
Does the practice need to give staff yet another new bank holiday? We're already struggling with workload.
Digital mental health therapies offer promise of wider access
DIGITALLY enabled therapies offering wider access to NHS mental health services for patients with depression and anxiety disorders have been conditionally recommended by NICE in new draft guidance.
New clinical statements address pneumonia in people with learning disability
HIGH morbidity and mortality in aspiration and community acquired pneumonia among patients with learning disability and autism has prompted publication of two new guidance statements from the British Thoracic Society (BTS).
NHS plan to further reduce opioid prescribing
OPIOID painkiller prescriptions in England have fallen by 8 per cent in the last three years according to NHS data released with publication of a new action plan to “crack down” on the overuse of potentially-addictive medicines.
GDC changes to fitness to practise processes are “pragmatic and sensible”, says MDDUS
MDDUS Head of Dental Division Stephen Henderson said the changes would bring significant improvements for registrants.
Insight Primary Q1 2023
In this issue:
- Feature: Rediscovering the joy of general practice
- Practice systems: Making “new normal” the norm
- Practice management: Do we need to give staff an extra bank holiday in May?
- Call log
- Pitfalls: Diagnosing malignant melanoma
- Altering clinical records – do’s and don’ts
- Being prepared for unexpected medical emergencies
- Innovation: Virtual wards in action
- Case file: Alleged falsification of notes
- Case file: Dispute over referral letter
- Case file: Twisted ankle
- Feature: A more perfect language than that of words
- Risk: Burnout risks patient safety
- Dilemma: Consent and Gillick competence
- Ethics: The human touch
- Vignette: John Alcindor (1873-1924)
Insight Primary Q2 2022
In this issue:
- Viewpoint: A lifetime perspective
- Call log
- Practice management: One of my employees is pregnant – what do we both need to do?
- Advice: Redacting sensitive information from health records
- Conflict with colleagues – nipping issues in the bud
- Informal advice or crossing a line?
- Professionalism in action: tackling the waiting lists
- Responding to online practice criticism
- How the physician to the gladiators became the father of modern medicine
- Wellbeing: No healthcare without self care
- Medical case study: Vaccine error
- Case study: Inappropriate DNACPR request
- Case study: Persistent swelling
- Dilemma: Off label request
- Ethics: A girl I used to know - on Derry Girls and ethical development
- Book choice: Hybrid Humans - Dispatches from the frontiers of man and machine
- Vignette: John T Shepherd (1919-2011)
Redacting sensitive information from health records
Patients in England will soon have digital access to new data entries in their health records, meaning GP practices will have to redact sensitive or potentially harmful details in "real time"
Slow-healing socket
...An incisional biopsy one month later at the hospital confirms the lesion is squamous cell carcinoma and the patient undergoes extensive surgery followed by facial reconstruction and radiotherapy...
Long-term diazepam prescription
...Dr H prescribes the drug weekly despite complaints by Mr C that he runs out of medication by the weekend...