Insight Secondary Q3 2023
In this issue:
- Leadership: Managing change - 10 essential tactics
- Candour: Is it safe to apologise?
- Innovation: Voice in the bank
- MDDUS: “Tired. Concerned. Trying not to lose hope.” A report from the NHS frontline
- Case file: Botox remote
- Case file: Redaction request
- Case file: Infected rash
- Risk: NHS staff jumping the queue
- Catalysing civility – resolving workplace conflict
- GMC: A brush with the law
- Ethics: How should a person be?
- Viewpoint: Malpractice in the media
- Vignette: Dame Margaret Turner-Warwick (1924 – 2017)
Insight Secondary Q2 2023
In this issue:
- 10 questions to ask before giving feedback
- Risk: When a patient refuses a chaperone
- Innovation: Online tool reduces disparities in pregnancy risk assessment
- The mission to make the NHS greener
- Advice for junior doctor members during industrial action
- Feature: A more perfect language than that of words - the inspiring figure behind the Hunterian Museum, London
- Case file: Just a sprain
- Case file: Threshold for a GMC investigation
- Case file: Disputed consent for surgery
- Dilemma: Consent and Gillick competence
- Ethics: The human touch
- Viewpoint: Tackling race hate - a challenge the NHS cannot ignore
- Vignette: John Alcindor (1873-1924)
Insight Secondary Q1 2023
In this issue:
- Going hungry on shift
- Risk: Burnout risks patient safety
- Innovation: Virtual wards in action
- Best practice: Are you delegating safely?
- Case file: Wrong email attachment
- Case file: Gut pain
- Case file: Post-incident meeting
- Feature: The surprising history of medical defence
- Viewpoint: A place of acceptance
- Best practice: Altering clinical records – do’s and don'ts
- Mental health: Support in a time of crisis
- Ethics: Hard choices – on difficult decisions
- Vignette: Jane Elizabeth Waterston (1843-1932)
Insight Secondary Q4 2022
In this issue:
- Probity – the hidden pitfalls
- Accessing patient records – when is it ok? When is it not?
- Advice: Unwanted advances
- Case file: Printed scan report
- Case file: Bariatric surgery consent
- Case file: A rare complication
- What does ‘safe space’ mean for NHS safety investigations?
- Ethics: Out of office – the ethics of taking a break
- First person: A long road
- Risk: Don't get caught out on indemnity
- Innovation: Real-time TB diagnosis on the street
- Viewpoint: End the silence
- Book choice: Am I normal?
- Vignette: John Boyd Orr (1880-1971)
Insight Secondary Q3 2022
In this issue:
- Viewpoint: A lifetime perspective
- Professionalism: Pitfalls in social media use
- Advice: Recording telephone consultations with patients
- Advice: Responding to online criticism
- Innovation: Digital biomarker to help diagnose epilepsy
- Profile: Taking aim
- Feature: How the physician to the gladiators became the father of modern medicine
- Case study: Iatrogenic stroke
- Case study: Serious clinical incident statement
- Case study: Patient buying medication online
- Dilemma: Off label request
- Ethics: A girl I used to know - on Derry Girls and ethical development
- Book choice: Hybrid Humans - Dispatches from the frontiers of man and machine
- Vignette: John T Shepherd (1919-2011)
Insight Secondary Q2 2022
In this issue:
- Viewpoint: Mental health - leading by example
- Avoiding “baked in” bias in AI healthcare applications
- Conflict with colleagues – nipping issues in the bud
- Professionalism in action: tackling the waiting lists
- Informal advice or crossing a line?
- Resilient practice – addressing human factors
- No man’s land - the pioneering women of WW1
- Medical case study: Vaccine error
- Medical case study: Post-op tooth pain
- Medical case study: Friendly care
- Wellbeing: No healthcare without self care
- Ethics: Lessons learned - ethical and educational
- Book choice: Recovery – The Lost Art of Convalescence
- Vignette: Elsie Widdowson (1906-2000)
Insight Secondary Q1 2022
In this issue:
- Viewpoint: Mental health - leading by example
- Risk: Providing incident statements and reports
- Advice: Preparing for Covid inquiries
- Best practice: Ensuring safe handovers between primary and secondary care
- Lowering the temperature in hostile patient encounters
- Building barriers – positive controls to improve patient safety
- The defiant doctor - the case of Dr Bonham
- Medical case study: A glass too many
- Medical case study: Change in bowel habit
- Case study: Genetic disclosure
- Dilemma: Covert recording made public
- Legal: Being a competent expert witness
- Ethics: On broken teapots and “holding” to account
- Book choice: Many different kinds of love - A story of life, death and the NHS
- Vignette: Innes Hope Pearse (1889-1978)
Insight Secondary Q4 2021
In this issue:
- Viewpoint: Looking after our own
- Finding PPE that's fit for all
- Innovation: Getting at healthcare data "locked" in NHS records
- Reducing risk in clinical handover
- Risk: What's up with WhatsApp?
- Improving self awareness to reduce risk
- A difficult decision - the case of Anthony Bland
- Medical case study: A statement of fact
- Medical case study: Misleading melanoma
- Medical case study: Wound care accusation
- Ethics: On meeting ethical distress
- Book choice: The Sleeping Beauties - And Other Stories of Mystery Illness
- Vignette: Pat O'Callaghan (1906-1991)
Insight Secondary Q3 2021
In this issue:
- Viewpoint: Doctors need time to rest, reflect and recover
- Innovation: Smartphone technology in chronic disease management
- Regulation: Clinicians refusing coronavirus vaccination
- Confidentiality: Parental responsibility - getting it right
- Dilemma: Making yourself your first concern
- Profile: On the inside: Covid-19
- DISCover how to transform your communication
- Human factors: Civility saves lives
- Case study - Consent not implied
- Case study - Difficult cannulation
- Case study - Smartphone recording
- Ethics: On hypocrisy
- Book choice: The Doctor Who Fooled the World
- Vignette: Lilian Lindsay (1871 - 1960)
Insight Secondary Q2 2021
In this issue:
- Viewpoint: Fine balance needed with remote consultations
- The pitfalls of treating colleagues
- MDDUS Solutions: A new choice for doctors
- Social media risks
- Nothing but the truth
- Making decisions about CPR
- “A responsible body of medical men”
- Case study - Colleague intervention
- Case study - Expert evidence
- Case study - Unseen complication
- Reflective practice
- Ethics: On moral distress
- Book choice: Intensive care
- Vignette: Baldev Kaushal (1906-1992)