How has the pandemic affected patient complaints?
Examining complaints about delays in treatment caused by pandemic disruption – and how to manage them.
Summer 2021
Summer 2021
Summer 2021
In focus
Leader
Time for a regulation reset
The pandemic has provided fresh impetus to improve healthcare regulation. Now is the time to deliver reform.
Feature
Working for you: MDU external relations
From campaigning for fairer compensation to lobbying for fairer and more efficient GMC processes, we are active in defending our members' interests.
Claims analysis
The bare bones of orthopaedic claims
Analysing clinical negligence claims against orthopaedic surgeons and offering advice on managing risk.
Interview
Interview
Addressing patient safety: the Confidential Reporting System for Surgery (CORESS)
Professor Frank Smith of CORESS explains how the charity gives surgeons a new opportunity to share and learn from their experiences.
Coping with complaints?
News
MDU e-learning: understanding and coping with complaints
More free e-learning modules from the MDU
News
Latest on-demand webinars: managing complaints, GMC prescribing guidance
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Medico-legal dilemmas
Medico-legal dilemmas
Red flags in coroners' inquiries and FAIs
Coroners' inquires and fatal accident inquiries exist to establish the facts of a death, but criticism at an inquest can have consequences for doctors.
Medico-legal dilemmas
Prescribing for a patient overseas
A member called for advice about whether they could prescribe for a relative who lived abroad.
In focus
In focus
Employment law advice MDU members concerns
One of the benefits of membership for Groupcare members is access to free employment law advice. Here we look at the types of issues you've faced - and how we can help.
In focus
New GMC prescribing guidance: what you need to know
The GMC's new prescribing guidance, Good practice in prescribing and managing medicines and devices, came into effect from early April '21.
Interview
Interview
Improving opportunities for HIV testing: lessons learned from late HIV diagnoses
Members of the team at the British HIV Association Audit and Standards Committee share their insight into learning from late diagnosis to help reduce deaths.