25 Nov 2010
| by Julie Wilson
It is vital that a practice has a robust, effective, safe and well-designed test result system...Well-designed test result systems can help to reduce the likelihood of adverse events and keep ...
have risks associated with their test result system.
Practices use laboratory services on a daily ...
as necessary. Is the system you have at your practice robust, effective and safe? When was the last time a test ...
15 May 2008
is central to the trust between doctor and patient. The duty of confidentiality is defined and protected ...
condition, can be extracted from NHS systems. The guidance states that NHS organisations (including GP ...
18 Jan 2012
| by Dr Peter Mackenzie
and diagnosis was delayed.
Failure to diagnose serious illness can also occur because of systems failures, including IT systems breaking down or reports being filed incorrectly.
GPs are responsible for ensuring proper follow-up for the tests and investigations that they are aware of, so consider whether the systems ...
30 Sep 2010
| by Dr Emma Cuzner
direct care to individual patients is a doctor's central role, but it is not the whole story ...
23 Jan 2008
with this is to use your practice s adverse incident reporting system. As a matter of courtesy you should tell your ...
System run by the NPSA, and can be done easily and anonymously online. Most importantly, your practice ...
03 Mar 2011
| by Dr Emma Cuzner
A landmark legal judgment about whether doctors could prescribe contraception to patients under 16 without parental authority has been central to decisions about consent for healthcare treatment of younger patients for 25 years.
Victoria Gillick, a mother of 10, hit the headlines in the 1980s when ...