Changes to the GMC’s core guidance for doctors could lead to more regulatory investigations, the MDU warned today. The GMC is currently consulting on a new version of Good Medical Practice including widening the scope of the standards against which all doctors will be judged. Setting these standards is a key function of the GMC. By clearly… Read more »
A review of nurse practitioner cases notified to leading medical defence organisation, the Medical Defence Union (MDU), has found nurses now face a similar range of medico-legal investigations into incidents as doctors. Between 2017 and 2021, the MDU helped 400 nurse members with medico-legal processes including complaints, claims, disciplinary procedures and NMC investigations. The MDU… Read more »
Latest articles
Labour will be pushed into the third place behind the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats at next month’s local elections, experts have predicted. Analysis by election experts Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher for the Sunday Times shows Labour trailing the other two main parties in 34 English local authorities going to the polls on June 4th…. Read more »
Under-fire communities secretary Hazel Blears says she understands public ‘hatred’ of the parliamentary expenses system after admitting she did not pay capital gains tax on profit from the sale of a London flat. Ms Blears is the latest minister to be caught up in the furore over expenses, although in this case she says she… Read more »
