Tag: GMC

New GMC confidentiality guidance and sessional GPs

Speaking up

Fit note GP guidance for urgent forms and letters

GP locums and patient harassment

GMC registration and ill health

Revalidation for locums – all in it together

NASGP and MPU-Unite joint membership

Why are heartsinks so attracted to me?

Why one doctor 'attracts' a certain type of patient that others don't is an interesting phenomenon. It could be that your colleagues give them short shrift and thus they go to you by default.

Isolation remains key issue for sessional GPs

Paula Wright, Chairman of North-east Employed and Locum GPs, takes us through the findings of the recent report into Sessional GPs from the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund.

Sleeping with the patient

MPS urges GP practices to set up confidential computer logins for locum GPs

Is there such a thing as informed consent?

A patient and a doctor lying hand in hand on the operating table. That was what came to my mind as I browsed ‘Consent: patients and doctors making decisions together’, the GMC’s new guidance. Consent, it rightly says, is a process, and obtaining it is a partnership. But ultimately the dialogue has to come to an end, and then the patient is on his own.