Spring 2024

A long shadow: facing multiple investigations

As one MDU member describes, when a single incident leads to multiple outcomes and investigations, it can be hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel without the right support.

In focus

Feature

Adopting AI in healthcare

Artificial intelligence promises to deliver revolutionary changes to our everyday lives. But how will that affect healthcare – and how can doctors prepare?

In focus

NHS pension changes: your questions answered

Changes to NHS pensions have left some healthcare professionals unsure how they're affected. Armstrong Watson's Morag Miller clears up the confusion.

Feature

LeDeR: learning from lives and deaths

Understanding the care of patients with specific needs is key to ensuring good care, and to improving future services – as the team from LeDeR explain.

Interview

Supporting Doctors in Distress

Members' dilemmas

Medico-legal dilemmas

Ethical considerations of an ECG

An unusual request from a deceased patient's relative raised some confidentiality concerns for a GP member, who called us for advice.

Medico-legal dilemmas

Parental concern dilemma

An MDU member asked for advice around consent and communication between a practice, a patient and a parent.

Leader

A stop-start approach to litigation reform serves no-one

Progress to reform our flawed litigation system has stalled, but the clock is ticking - and it's getting louder as costs start to rise again.