Free membership and support for retired doctors extended until September 2022
MDDUS has extended an offer of free membership until September 2022 for retired doctors who return to work during the pandemic.
Staff shortages impacting cancer care
A 17 per cent shortfall of clinical oncologists and a 29 per cent shortfall of consultant radiologists contributed to an estimated 50,000 missed cancers in 2021 due to a backlog of care in the pandemic, says the Royal College of Radiologists.
New GDC hearing service launched
THE GDC has launched a Dental Professionals Hearing Service which is separate from its fitness to practise investigation and prosecution functions.
New resources published on clinician exclusion
NEW resources have been published to support those deciding whether to exclude a doctor or dentist from their workplace due to performance concerns.
Dental care professionals urged to check CPD record as deadline looms
DENTAL care professionals are being urged to check they have completed enough CPD hours ahead of the annual renewal deadline.
Dentists struggle to clear patient backlog
ONE in three dentists are struggling to clear the backlog of patients caused by the pandemic, the findings of a new survey reveal.
NHS good but could be better in shared decision making
A SURVEY of healthcare professionals found that 76 per cent regularly practise core elements of shared decision making with patients but 28 per cent found lack of time a barrier.
Urgent need to address exodus of GPs over next five years
NEARLY 19,000 GPs and trainees are expected to leave the profession over the next five years unless action is taken ease workload and workforce pressures, according to a survey by the Royal College of GPs.
Insight Primary Q2 2022
In this issue:
- Viewpoint: A lifetime perspective
- Call log
- Practice management: One of my employees is pregnant – what do we both need to do?
- Advice: Redacting sensitive information from health records
- Conflict with colleagues – nipping issues in the bud
- Informal advice or crossing a line?
- Professionalism in action: tackling the waiting lists
- Responding to online practice criticism
- How the physician to the gladiators became the father of modern medicine
- Wellbeing: No healthcare without self care
- Medical case study: Vaccine error
- Case study: Inappropriate DNACPR request
- Case study: Persistent swelling
- Dilemma: Off label request
- Ethics: A girl I used to know - on Derry Girls and ethical development
- Book choice: Hybrid Humans - Dispatches from the frontiers of man and machine
- Vignette: John T Shepherd (1919-2011)
Case study: Inappropriate DNACPR request
...Mr J asks his GP for a DNACPR order despite having no underlying condition that suggests he is near the end of his life...