Risk: What's up with WhatsApp?
MESSAGING apps might seem an obvious choice for communicating with patients, but it is essential that professional standards are not diluted simply because we are behind a keyboard or phone
Reducing risk in clinical handover
IT’S a vital part of good team work and safe patient care – but just how good is your handover? Dr Naeem Nazem and Dr Greg Dollman offer practical advice.
Finding PPE that's fit for all
PROTECTIVE gowns, masks and visors have become synonymous with the Covid-19 pandemic, but as many healthcare providers discovered – PPE is not usually created with everyone in mind.
Innovation: Getting at healthcare data "locked" in NHS records
Jim Killgore explores the potential benefits of a new AI system designed to “read” electronic health records
Viewpoint: Looking after our own
MDDUS chief medical officer Dr John Holden observes that doctors have unique characteristics that make them vulnerable to the stresses that arise in dealing with the profound needs of others, and the profession must strive more to “look after our own”
Insight Secondary Q4 2021
In this issue:
- Viewpoint: Looking after our own
- Finding PPE that's fit for all
- Innovation: Getting at healthcare data "locked" in NHS records
- Reducing risk in clinical handover
- Risk: What's up with WhatsApp?
- Improving self awareness to reduce risk
- A difficult decision - the case of Anthony Bland
- Medical case study: A statement of fact
- Medical case study: Misleading melanoma
- Medical case study: Wound care accusation
- Ethics: On meeting ethical distress
- Book choice: The Sleeping Beauties - And Other Stories of Mystery Illness
- Vignette: Pat O'Callaghan (1906-1991)
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
Paying for NHS litigation will wipe out Budget health spending pledge
MDDUS has urged Sajid Javid to urgently reform clinical negligence laws to avoid Budget health spending pledges being effectively wiped out.
New registered address for MDDUS
MDDUS will have a new registered office address from 1 November 2021: 206 St Vincent Street, Glasgow G2 5SG.
MDDUS welcomes personal assurance to doctors from GMC’s acting Chair
New reassurance from the GMC that it will take the “extraordinary circumstances” of the pandemic into account when it considers concerns raised about doctors during Covid-19.