GDC battles negative perceptions among dental professionals
OVER half of dental professionals and other stakeholders expressed negative perceptions of the General Dental Council (GDC) in research commissioned by the regulator.
New study confirms safety of Covid-19 vaccination in pregnancy
PREGNANT women vaccinated against Covid-19 were found to have no increased risk of having a stillbirth or low birthweight baby, according to a new study.
Delays in emergency treatment pose “acute patient safety” risk
NEARLY two thirds of A&Es across the UK had ambulances waiting to transfer patients every day, according to a snap survey conducted in November by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM).
Removing patients from GP practice list
MDDUS would like to remind members working in GP practice to consider carefully their professional and contractual obligations before deregistering a patient.
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Updated dental Covid SOP in England
REVISED infection prevention control (IPC) requirements for dental settings have been published by the UK Government and this has prompted NHS England to update the standard operating procedure (SOP) for practices.
Insight Dental Q4 2021
In this issue:
- Wellbeing: Introducing YourHalo
- Call log
- Employment law: Sexual harassment in the workplace
- Risk: What's up with WhatsApp
- Advice: Know your patient – tips to avoid complaints
- Complaints handling: Proactive response to patient complaints
- Lowering the temperature in hostile patient encounters
- Breaking up is hard to do
- Finding PPE that's fit for all
- Case study: Beyond what's reasonable
- Case study: Lip trauma
- Case study: Emergency backlog
- Legal: Being a competent expert witness
- Ethics: On meeting ethical distress
- Book choice: The Sleeping Beauties - And Other Stories of Mystery Illness
- Vignette: Pat O'Callaghan (1906-1991)
Updated long-Covid guidance published
GUIDANCE for treating patients with long Covid has been updated jointly by NICE, SIGN and the Royal College of GPs.
Covid-19 boosters offer significant protection
A BOOSTER dose with the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine offers over 93 per cent protection against symptomatic infection in adults aged 50 and over who have had their primary jabs, according to a study published the UK Health Security Agency.
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