Mental Health Awareness Week - Dr Greg Dollman
To mark Mental Health Awareness Week, we find out how Dr Greg Dollman, senior medico-legal adviser at MDDUS, looks after his own mental health and wellbeing.
Dental case study: Adverse comment
...Mr M posts a review on a local online directory commenting that Dr S is “incompetent and rude” and that he struggled to extract his tooth...
Recording telephone consultations with patients
Organisations often now record telephone calls to monitor quality control and for training purposes. But do you adequately inform patients of this – and what about data protection?
MDDUS sells Mackintosh House
MDDUS has sold the building that formerly housed its Glasgow offices.
MDDUS survey finds pandemic stress and abuse from patients taking a toll
THREE out of four GPs have faced an increase in verbal abuse or aggression from their patients, leading to a huge increase in work-related stress, according to a new survey by MDDUS.
Mental health of Welsh dentists worsens
THE mental health of dentists in Wales further declined towards the end of 2021, as increasing admin tasks forced most clinicians to work without proper breaks.
NHS dental treatments in Scotland below pre-pandemic levels
DENTAL contacts and treatments in Scotland have not yet fully recovered to pre-pandemic levels, according to a report from Public Health Scotland.
Emergency care in Scotland remains in severe crisis
MORE than three in 10 patients in Scotland waited more than four hours for care in emergency departments, according to performance figures for the week ending 10 April.
Fixed recoverable costs in lower value clinical negligence claims “welcome first step” – MDDUS
MOVES to curb the expensive system of recovering legal costs in clinical negligence claims are “a welcome first step”, according to the medical defence specialists MDDUS.
Report on legal claims in emergency medicine
GOOD record-keeping and communication to support handover and ‘safety netting’ for patients whose condition may deteriorate are among key lessons highlighted in three new reports on compensation claims in emergency medicine.