Greater flexibility for dentists with additional development needs
DENTAL professionals in England who are subject to conditions or undertakings following a fitness to practise hearing can now choose who provides their development support.
Varied quality of maternity services in England
VARIATION in the quality and safety of England’s maternity services has been identified as an "ongoing concern" in a new report from the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
Revised dental guidance on prevention
A NEW edition of Delivering Better Oral Health: an evidence based toolkit for prevention has been issued with an endorsement from The College of General Dentistry.
MDDUS makes three appointments to its board of directors
MDDUS has made a series of high-profile appointments to its board of directors including the senior surgeon to the UK Royal Household.
Insight Primary Q3 2021
In this issue:
- Viewpoint: Looking after our own
- Call log
- Risk: What's up with WhatsApp?
- Practice management: Sexual harassment in the workplace
- Regulatory matters: Working without professional registration
- Advice: Safety netting
- Complaints handling: Proactive response to patient complaints
- Innovation: Smartphone technology in chronic disease management
- Improving self awareness to reduce risk - practical advice on reflective practice
- A difficult decision - the case of Anthony Bland
- Case study: Consent to vaccinate
- Case study: Misinterpreted result
- Case study: Wrist injury
- Dilemma: Making yourself your first concern
- Ethics: On meeting ethical distress
- Book choice: The Sleeping Beauties - And Other Stories of Mystery Illness
- Vignette: Pat O'Callaghan (1906-1991)
Sending patient records to MDDUS
MDDUS would like to remind members and their staff to consider carefully whether it is truly necessary to send us medical and dental records in relation to a complaint.
Records check following cervical screening error
THE records of almost 200,000 women excluded from the cervical screening programme in Scotland are to be individually reviewed after it was found some had been left out in error.
Tenth of prescriptions in England “inappropriate”
AN estimated 10 per cent of items dispensed in primary care are "overprescribed", with 15 per cent of people taking five or more medicines a day, according to a Government-commissioned review.
ONS data shows risk of Covid death lower for vaccinated
RISK of death involving Covid-19 has been found to be consistently lower for people who received two vaccinations compared to one or no vaccination, according to data published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
Advice issued on topical steroid withdrawal reactions
PATIENTS using topical steroid for long-periods of time can suffer severe skin withdrawal symptoms and should take advice from a healthcare professional, says the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).