Healthcare assistants and the flu vaccination
Ensure HCAs are not tasked to provide flu vaccinations under a Patient Group Direction.
Cash grants for ethics trainees
CASH grants and awards of up to £2,000 are being made available for trainee doctors interested in medical ethics.
RCP exam fees frozen but others increase
THE cost of sitting membership examinations for the Royal College of Physicians has been frozen for 2014.
Online revalidation portfolio goes live
A REVALIDATION portfolio intended for use free of charge by fellows and members of several medical Royal colleges is now available.
New kind of medics start hospital jobs
A NEW category of health professionals – similar to junior doctors – are starting their hospital jobs.
GMC advises nearly 8,000 licences at risk
JUST under 8,000 doctors have been informed that their licence to practise is at risk having not responded to GMC requests to provide information for revalidation.
General internal medicine should be compulsory
DUAL training with general internal medicine should be mandatory for trainee doctors in all specialties in order to cope with future patient needs, according to a Royal College of Physicians report.
Expanded treatment role for pharmacists in Scotland
PHARMACISTS in Scotland are to be given an expanded role in delivering healthcare services directly to patients.
Majority of young dentists are female, report shows
MORE than half of dentists under 35 in England are female, with overall numbers up by more than three per cent, a new report shows.
Significant use of telephone triage in primary care
A SIGNIFICANT percentage of patients accessing primary care services are being triaged by healthcare staff and some without medical backgrounds according to a survey by Campden Health.