Lowering the temperature in hostile patient encounters
Risk adviser Alan Frame offers advice on dealing with aggressive and violent patients
Advice: Preparing for Covid inquiries
UK governments will be holding public inquiries into the handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. What should you do to prepare?
Best practice: Ensuring safe handovers between primary and secondary care
Handover of patient care is a common area of risk, which is magnified when transferring between primary and secondary care services.
Risk: Providing incident statements and reports
Engaging in incident investigations can seem daunting but it is important to provide any required statement or report in a clear, detailed and objective manner.
Viewpoint: Mental health - leading by example
Insight editor and senior medico-legal adviser Dr Greg Dollman talks about the importance of taking the time to reflect on our own mental health while also providing support and care to others.
Insight Secondary Q1 2022
In this issue:
- Viewpoint: Mental health - leading by example
- Risk: Providing incident statements and reports
- Advice: Preparing for Covid inquiries
- Best practice: Ensuring safe handovers between primary and secondary care
- Lowering the temperature in hostile patient encounters
- Building barriers – positive controls to improve patient safety
- The defiant doctor - the case of Dr Bonham
- Medical case study: A glass too many
- Medical case study: Change in bowel habit
- Case study: Genetic disclosure
- Dilemma: Covert recording made public
- Legal: Being a competent expert witness
- Ethics: On broken teapots and “holding” to account
- Book choice: Many different kinds of love - A story of life, death and the NHS
- Vignette: Innes Hope Pearse (1889-1978)
Practices reminded of mask rules
PRIMARY care practices are being reminded that face coverings must continue to be worn by staff and patients.
Urgent legal change needed to boost non-UK dentist registration
THERE is a “pressing need” for legal change to speed up the registration of dentists from outside the UK, the General Dental Council has said.
GMC decision makers to take account of pandemic pressures
UPDATED guidance for GMC decision makers assessing individual fitness to practise cases aims to ensure that the context of the pandemic is taken into account and decisions are “fair and proportionate to the circumstances".
MDDUS CEO warns about changes to GP indemnity options
MDDUS has reaffirmed its commitment to offer GPs occurrence-based indemnity, amid moves by other providers to withdraw it.