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Treat severe sepsis within one hour

PATIENTS showing symptoms of severe sepsis should be treated within one hour, according to a new draft quality standard from NICE.

  • 15 March 2017
  • News

MDDUS welcomes government debate on indemnity

MDDUS welcomes today’s planned Westminster Hall debate on GP indemnity costs in England and believes reform is needed to protect patients and healthcare professionals.

  • 15 March 2017
  • Press release

MDDUS urges Lord Chancellor to pause the discount rate change - and advises the Scottish Government to learn from UK mistakes

MDDUS chief executive Chris Kenny comments further on the impact on the NHS and individual clinicians in general following the Lord Chancellor’s decision to reduce the discount rate.

  • 10 March 2017
  • Press release

Book choice: A is for arsenic

The poisons of Agatha Christie

  • 01 March 2017
  • Article
  • Insight
  • Q1

Insight Spring Q1 2017 puzzle solution

Solution to Insight Spring Q1 2017 crossword puzzle

  • 01 March 2017
  • MDDUS Update

Compensation reform will lead to significant legal cost rise in England

THE Lord Chancellor, Liz Truss, has today announced a cut to the discount rate applied to personal injury claims from 2.5 per cent to minus 0.75 per cent. The effect will be an increase in the size of compensation payments, leading to significant new costs for the NHS and medical defence organisations (MDOs), such as MDDUS.

  • 28 February 2017
  • MDDUS Update

Vision for “realistic medicine” by 2025

ALL healthcare professionals in Scotland will be practising “realistic medicine” by 2025 in a bid to increase patient involvement and reduce overtreatment.

  • 28 February 2017
  • News

Protecting electronic patient data

DATA extraction software for patient records can speed up information requests both for insurance companies and under-pressure GPs - but practices need to ensure essential data protection standards are met.

  • 27 February 2017
  • Risk alert

Transgender records

...The practice is advised to explain that the patient may not be contacted for current or future screening programmes associated with the sex at birth and explain the implications of this...

  • 27 February 2017
  • Case study

Incident reporting system checklist

Use this checklist to review your current incident reporting system, or as a good practice checklist when developing or implementing a new system for your practice

  • Checklist

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