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1 April 2013
Maintaining professional boundaries with patients and the development of laws governing anatomy and dissection.
29 November 2012
This issue of the MDU Journal discusses the importance of raising concerns, revalidation, and hindsight bias in medico-legal reporting.
12 November 2012
In this issue we look at child protection and reflect on foundation year training.
2 October 2012
The latest edition of Good Practice discusses the challenges presented by CQC, and explains how the MDU Guide to CQC can help, and Dr Yvonne McCombie examines the GP’s pivotal role in identifying domestic abuse and the consequent complex medico-legal issues.
This issue of inpractice focuses on change and the impact it can have on staff in your practice, the MDU Guide to CQC, a helpful interactive online guide to assist you with your preparations and dealing with sickness absence.
3 May 2012
Our main feature in this edition of Good Practice explores the issue of doctor-patient communication and describes how GPs can try to ensure they and their patients are on the same wavelength.
17 April 2012
In this issue, we look at what makes a successful clinical handover and how FY doctors can play a central part.
29 March 2012
This issue's lead feature contains practical advice on the medico-legal aspects of 'putting things right' after an adverse incident.
1 February 2012
This issue of inpractice addresses the changes to RCN practice nurse indemnity and includes features on dealing with requests for disclosure of information about children to parents, and some advice from Peninsula Business Services to assist practices who find themselves on the receiving end of an Employment Tribunal.
30 November 2011
This issue's lead feature concerns consent. The articles discuss in-depth the issues of obtaining valid and informed consent from patients and doctors’ legal and ethical obligations.