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Security and protection of personal data is a key concern when emailing clinical information.
Guidance on making the difficult and emotive decision to withdraw life sustaining treatment from patients in a vegetative or minimally conscious state.
The MDU helped a GP respond to a patient's family, who made a complaint after complications meant the patient's body couldn't be donated to a medical school after his death as he had wanted.
Organ donation will be moving to an 'opt out' system in 2020.
GPs play a pivotal role in identifying children at risk and should be familiar with local child protection procedures.
Your round-up of the latest medico-legal news, with a focus on patient safety, clinical negligence, new legislation and guidance impacting your practice.
Patients with mental disorders or learning disabilities do not necessarily lack capacity to consent to disclosure of confidential information.
Text messages are a low-cost and low-effort way for GPs to keep patients updated, particularly for large-scale communications such as flu jab reminders.
Doctors and other healthcare professionals have a duty to be alert to signs of domestic abuse.