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Ensure GMC standards reflect realities of medical practice, MDU urges

Changes to the GMC’s core guidance for doctors could lead to more regulatory investigations, the MDU warned today. The GMC is currently consulting on a new version of Good Medical Practice including widening the scope of the standards against which all doctors will be judged. Setting these standards is a key function of the GMC. By clearly… Read more »

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Nurse practitioners face multiple investigations into single incident

A review of nurse practitioner cases notified to leading medical defence organisation, the Medical Defence Union (MDU), has found nurses now face a similar range of medico-legal investigations into incidents as doctors. Between 2017 and 2021, the MDU helped 400 nurse members with medico-legal processes including complaints, claims, disciplinary procedures and NMC investigations. The MDU… Read more »

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The ultimate general election 2010 playlist

What could be more important, as the general election campaign intensifies, than discovering the aural pleasures of those who seek to represent us? By Alex Stevenson politics.co.uk has been sifting through responses to a questionnaire we sent out to prospective parliamentary candidates. We asked wannbe MPs: what’s your favourite political song? Their answers were as… Read more »