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NICE encourages use of greener asthma inhalers
People with asthma will be helped to choose the inhaler that is best for them, and best for the environment, using a new patient-decision aid keep reading
Year: 2020
News
CQC: more focus on human rights needed by healthcare services when using the Mental Health Act
Services need to improve how they provide care and treatment for people detained under the Mental Health Act (MHA) in a way that respects their keep reading
Legal
GP, who sexually assaulted 24 patients, handed three life sentences
GP Manish Shah committed 90 assaults on patients he gave unnecessary examinations to and has been given three life sentences This is an edited version keep reading
Live it
The psychologically behind always being late
There are as many reasons for unpunctuality as there are habitually tardy people – and the underlying reasons can be complex. Phillipa Perry explains the keep reading
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PCNs: areas of potential collaboration for practice managers
How can practice managers operating within a primary care network collaborate on practice policies and processes, including business continuity, data protection, safeguarding, complaints and IT keep reading
News
RCGP’s take on new GP contract
New GP contract ‘catalyst’ to deliver promised funding and workforce to general practice, says RCGP This is an edited version of a press release first keep reading
Health & Patient Care
RCGP defends GPs on lung cancer diagnosis
The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) has responded to a Guardian article called ‘Late diagnosis of lung cancer hitting survival rate, study says’ that keep reading
Management
How to manage a team older than you
When the team you manage is older than you, it can be easy to develop imposter-syndrome and feel like you aren’t as qualified as them. keep reading
Health Tech
Creative healthcare: the low-down on GP website design and their developers
Practice Business explores why an easy to navigate, helpful practice website is a modern-day essential, and investigates the healthcare website developers on the market We’ve keep reading
Health Tech
‘There are 890 more patients than a year ago… something has to change’
Dunfermline’s Nethertown Surgery is to become the first practice in Fife to use a technology that hopes to revolutionise medical care This is an edited keep reading