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Best practice: Altering clinical records – do’s and don'ts

Clinical records should be made contemporaneously - but there are occasions when it's reasonable to alter an existing record.

  • 20 January 2023
  • Article
  • Insight - Secondary
  • Q1

Ethics: Hard choices – on difficult decisions

Professor Deborah Bowman reflects on the complexities of making difficult decisions.

  • 20 January 2023
  • Article
  • Insight - Secondary
  • Q1

Viewpoint: A place of acceptance

Medico-legal adviser Dr Gordon McDavid offers a personal perspective on the workplace challenges facing LGBTQ+ healthcare professionals.

  • 20 January 2023
  • Article
  • Insight - Secondary
  • Q1

Case file: Post-incident meeting

...Dr N should be allowed to review the patient records before providing responses to questions relating to her involvement in the care provided...

  • 20 January 2023
  • Case study
  • Insight - Secondary
  • Q1

Case file: Gut pain

...it is claimed that Dr C neglected to adequately examine Ms R and failed to diagnose her appendicitis...

  • 20 January 2023
  • Case study
  • Insight - Secondary
  • Q1

Innovation: Virtual wards in action

One initiative to ease pressure on overstretched hospital services.

  • 20 January 2023
  • Article
  • Insight - Secondary
  • Q1

Feature: The surprising history of medical defence

Allan Gaw recounts how increasing litigation in the late Victorian era led to the establishment of mutual medical defence.

  • 19 January 2023
  • Article
  • Insight - Secondary
  • Q1

Case file: Wrong email attachment

...Ms J sends a formal letter of complaint expressing her distress at having personal and private information mistakenly disclosed...

  • 19 January 2023
  • Case study
  • Insight - Secondary
  • Q1

Best practice: Are you delegating safely?

Clinicians can delegate responsibility for a task but not accountability.

  • 19 January 2023
  • Article
  • Insight - Secondary
  • Q1

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