HR Alert: Big changes for flexible working
There are big changes ahead for flexible working rights.
Case study: Dismissed while off sick
...Ms S, who suffered from depression, was warned to improve her attendance or face disciplinary action...
Ask the Expert: How do I deal with a toxic team member
Her constant negativity is affecting the entire team. What can I do?
Insight Primary Q3 2023
In this issue:
- Assisted dying back in the news
- MDDUS: “Tired. Concerned. Trying not to lose hope.” A report from the NHS frontline
- Risk: Safe telephone triage
- Call log
- Practice management: Probationary periods
- Leadership: Managing change - 10 essential tactics
- Candour: Is it safe to apologise?
- Practice staff: Supporting physician associates in clinical practice
- Innovation: Voice in the bank
- Case file: Redaction software for SARs
- Case file: Blood in urine
- Case file: Tick-box error
- Ethics: All for one and one for all?
- Vignette: George Northcroft (1868 – 1943)
Supporting physician associates in clinical practice
Physician associates are able to work independently but must have “appropriate support”.
Updated NICE guidance could lead to around 100,000 fewer colonoscopies
NICE has recommended that people with signs or symptoms of colorectal cancer should be offered home quantitative faecal immunochemical tests (FIT) which could lead to faster diagnosis and fewer patients referred to secondary care for an unnecessary colonoscopy.
“World first” rollout of cancer jab that cuts treatment time
AN anti-cancer injection that will cut treatment times by up to 75 per cent for some cancer patients is set to be rolled out “within weeks” by NHS England.
MDDUS comments on new General Medical Council guidance
NHS leaders must support doctors to act on new GMC guidance to challenge concerning behaviour at work
Updated GMC guidance highlights support for doctors to “speak out”
NHS leaders must support doctors to act when faced with challenging behaviours at work – so says MDDUS in response to the publication by the General Medical Council of updated professional standards in Good medical practice (GMP).
Notice of Annual General Meeting
Notice is hereby given of the one hundred and twentieth Annual General Meeting of The Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland