Briefing: An endless weekend effect?
“Evidence does exist to support a ‘weekend effect’ but the real question is how do you tease out the causes and come up with an appropriate response."
Risk: Can reflective practice be “incriminating”?
ALL healthcare professionals today are actively encouraged to engage in reflective practice but some MDDUS members have expressed worries that taking part in formal procedures might "incriminate" them should a complaint or claim arise.
Call log
These cases are based on actual advice calls made to MDDUS advisers and are published here to highlight common challenges within practice management.
Employment law: Patients as employees
How do you keep within the law when it becomes necessary to make staff redundant?
A step too far?
Maintaining appropriate boundaries with patients is a key obligation for doctors and other healthcare professionals – but would you recognise a GP overstepping the mark?
Case study: Sealed envelope
...Later that day Mrs J opens the envelope to read the referral letter and discovers the child protection disclosure naming her sister-in-law as the source...
Diary
More random items of questionable relevance from the PM team...
Emergency sepsis care improving
AN audit of sepsis care has shown improvement in the proportion of patients receiving basic interventions within the first hour of arriving at emergency departments.
MDDUS joins forces with LLMC to provide tailored indemnity package
MDDUS is delighted to announce a new partnership with Lincolnshire LMC (LLMC) to provide GP practices with a tailored and competitive indemnity package for new recruits from the EU.
MDDUS urges increase on FRC limit
MDDUS has urged the government to increase its proposed fixed recoverable costs (FRC) limit following the conclusion of a Department of Health consultation.