Medico-legal advice: Coping with winter pressures
With warnings about the pressures facing the NHS this winter, Dr Caroline Fryar, MDU head of advisor...
How to ensure safe online prescribing
As more patients begin to access GP services online, prescribing online is becoming common. Dr Naeem...
Conducting online consultations - medico-legal advice
From next year all practices in England will be expected to provide online consultations. The MDU's ...
How simple steps can help practices improve end-of-life care
Earlier this year Marie Curie and the RCGP launched the Daffodil Standards, which help practices imp...
New rules on reporting deaths to the coroner explained
New regulations that specify the circumstances in which a death must be notified to the coroner were...
Medico-legal: When patients want to record their consultations
MDDUS risk adviser Alan Frame explains patients' right to record consultations with a doctor and wha...
GP dilemma: Responding to a firearms license application
How should GPs approach a police request for medical information relating to a firearms application?...
GP dilemma: Summer events and accepting hospitality
There are always plenty of social events and activities during the summer - but can doctors accept h...
Medico-legal: Declaring patients fit to fly
GPs can often find they are asked to declare patients 'fit to fly'. Dr Rachel Birch from Medical Pro...
The importance of taking and recording clinical observations
Taking and recording observations, even when the results are normal, can help to reassure patients o...
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