Innovation: Smartphone technology in chronic disease management
How smartphone apps are transforming the management of some chronic conditions, such as diabetes and kidney disease.
Viewpoint: Doctors need time to rest, reflect and recover
MDDUS head of medical division Dr Naeem Nazem discusses the need to support doctors' physical and mental wellbeing
Insight Secondary Q3 2021
In this issue:
- Viewpoint: Doctors need time to rest, reflect and recover
- Innovation: Smartphone technology in chronic disease management
- Regulation: Clinicians refusing coronavirus vaccination
- Confidentiality: Parental responsibility - getting it right
- Dilemma: Making yourself your first concern
- Profile: On the inside: Covid-19
- DISCover how to transform your communication
- Human factors: Civility saves lives
- Case study - Consent not implied
- Case study - Difficult cannulation
- Case study - Smartphone recording
- Ethics: On hypocrisy
- Book choice: The Doctor Who Fooled the World
- Vignette: Lilian Lindsay (1871 - 1960)
Treatment abroad
...The patient asks his UK dentist – Dr U – to re-cement the bridge permanently without further endodontic treatment...
Consent not implied
...Dr P, aware that Mrs K is “exhausted and traumatised” by the birth, decides it would be unreasonable to disturb her in the middle of night...
Safety netting
How can you ensure a robust system where nothing important is missed?
Protection for English FY2s in Scottish GP practice
MDDUS has agreed to provide additional protection for FY2 doctors from England who are working in GP practices in Scotland.
MDDUS protection for owners of corporate dental practices
MDDUS Solutions has launched a new Dental Corporate Clinical Indemnity (DCCI) product, specifically designed to fill the gap in vicarious liability cover.
Report reveals scale of under representation and discrimination against BME doctors
DOCTORS in England from black and minority ethnic (BME) backgrounds now comprise 42 per cent of the NHS total, while the number of BME medical directors has increased to only 20.3 per cent.
Burnout “unsurprising” among medical trainees
A THIRD of medical trainees reported feeling "burnt out" to a high or very high degree because of their work, according to the GMC’s annual national training survey.