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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 »
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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Urgent and emergency healthcare in Britain has come under intense criticism in a new report published by the Healthcare Commission today. Those in worse performing areas have poor GP out-of-hours services, longer waits for care and a lack of services tailored to people with disabilities and long term illnesses. “People often don’t know which services… Read more »
The economic slowdown will force an end to the period of rising healthcare spending above GDP, it is claimed today. Professor Nick Bosanquet of Imperial College London writes in an online debate on bmj.com that with the government reaching the limits of its taxable capacity, healthcare spending cannot maintain its current rate of two per… Read more »
