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Licence to practice now required by all doctors
(The Scotsman 17/11/2009)
ALL doctors in Scotland who want to practice medicine will require a licence to allow them to continue seeing patients. The move is part of measures to ensure GPs are subject to regular checks. From now on all doctors in the UK must be registered with the General Medical Council and also have a licence to practice. In Scotland, 18,867 doctors now have a licence to practice. The move is the biggest change in medical regulation since the first medical register was published 150 years ago.
Doctors 'should avoid treating family'
(BBC 21/10/2009)
Many doctors will identify with the scenario of being asked to reassure a relative with a worrying mole or prescribe antibiotics to a friend with a temperature, often in the middle of a busy restaurant or at a house party. The problem is that treating friends and family holds significant pitfalls for the doctors themselves and is generally not in the long-term interests of patients either. Of course, there are some situations where there is little alternative.
(BBC 02/10/2009)
Somali Dr Hafsa Abdurrahman Mohamed, 26, describes what it is like working at a hospital in Marere, a town in the southern Islamist-controlled part of the country. She was one of the 20 student doctors to graduate from a medical school in the capital, Mogadishu, in December 2008 - the first to do so for nearly two decades. The best thing about my work is when the baby is born and together with the mother, they are both safe; the moment when the baby cries out. I want to help Somali women.
'Deaths rise' with junior doctors
(BBC 23/09/2009)
A small but statistically significant number of patients die each year when junior doctors start work in August, a study suggests. Researchers looked at 300,000 patients admitted as emergencies to English hospitals between 2000 and 2008. They compared death rates between the first week of August, when new doctors arrive, and the previous week in July. After adjusting for various factors, they report in PLoS One that the August patients were 6% more likely to die.
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Adam Morris: Diagnosis is bleak for junior medics
(The Scotsman 24/08/2009)
IT HAS been billed as one of the most radical shake-ups to the health service in a generation. Since 1 August, all hospital workers have been legally forbidden from working more than 48 hours in a week. The European Working Time Directive (EWTD) - which has been brewing in Brussels for years - has split opinion in the medical world, and now there is serious doubt in many circles as to whether or not these rules can be abided by without compromising patient care.
(BBC 22/08/2009)
Seven years after seeking asylum in the UK, Dr Sarkhell Radha has finally started working as an orthopaedic specialist trainee. But Dr Radha, an Iraqi Kurd, said he has had to overcome discrimination, as well as physical and verbal abuse, along the way. When Dr Radha left southern Kurdistan he was fleeing persecution and torture. He left behind a family, a good job and his home.
(The Scotsman 20/08/2009)
FOUR junior doctors who were wrongly told they had passed all their final exams have been suspended. The four started work at hospitals in South Wales two weeks ago but Cardiff University found they were given the wrong exam result for one module of their degree which resulted in them being suspended.
'I'll show you'
(BBC 02/08/2009)
Robert Lee left school with a clutch of poor GCSE grades. He trained in catering and then set up his own fish and chip shop business in the Midlands. But he knew that he wanted something else and decided to go back to fulfil his dream of becoming a doctor. This month, after eight years of studying, Robert graduates as a doctor and has already set his sights on his next challenge - plastic surgery.
Time rules 'catastrophic' for NHS
(BBC 31/05/2009)
New rules on how many hours doctors can work will be "catastrophic" for the NHS, a senior surgeon has claimed. Waiting lists could soar and hospital units forced to close to emergencies, John Black, president of the Royal College of Surgeons, has said. The European Working Time Directive limits the number of hours doctors and surgeons can work each week to 48. The Department of Health said it was listening to concerns and providing expert support to staff.
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