Doctors to use common sense for home visits in the snow
Doctors are advised to adopt a common-sense approach to home visits during the current severe winter weather.
Patients to rate doctors on service
PATIENTS are to be given the power to rate the service provided by their doctor under new plans announced by the prime minister.
If It’s not in the records, then it didn't happen
Keeping clear, accurate and contemporaneous dental records is key to dentists staying out of professional difficulties, advises UK-wide dental defence organisation MDDUS.
Doctors to help protect vulnerable children
HOSPITAL doctors are to have access to a new system to help them identify victims of child abuse, the government has announced.
Call to curb aggressive marketing in cosmetic surgery
TIGHTER restrictions on aggressive marketing ploys to attract cosmetic surgery patients are among the responses to a Call for Evidence in a Government review of regulations for cosmetic interventions.
Consider your dental co-pilot
Risk training consultant and former pilot Phil Higton highlights the importance of encouraging dental team members to voice concerns on patient safety issues
You think what?
Our ethics columnist offers an ethical perspective on disagreement
The final days of Hugh Miller
James Finlayson looks at the death of the Victorian science popularist Hugh Miller and draws an important lesson in medical professionalism
Acute abdominal pain in general practice
GP Jonathan Berry considers when to refer in acute abdominal pain