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Medical Board proposes health checks for doctors over 70 🩺 What will this mean for rural health? Read about the proposed changes on Rural Health Pro: https://loom.ly/v3-cmEA #ruralhealth #ruralhealthpro #gp #doctor #healthlaw #consultation #ruralgp

Dr. Allan Grill, Assistant Dean of the Queen's University-Lakeridge Health Campus, highlights the risks posed by Canada's family physician shortage and outlines three short-term solutions. He points to the Queen's-Lakeridge Health MD Family Medicine program as a prime example of initiatives aimed at training family doctors right within the communities where they will ideally live and work upon graduation.

What an insightful way of looking at the problem of ensuring everyone in Canada can find a family physician! This article gives me hope that a solution is possible.

The NHS is grappling with an alarming trend as junior doctors increasingly abandon permanent roles in favour of higher-paying locum work. The flexibility, financial rewards, and independence offered by locum positions are proving too enticing to resist for many young medics. Read more here:https://lnkd.in/eHUVUyXQ

It’s been nearly a decade since the landmark Supreme Court judgment in Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board [2015] UKSC 11 reshaped patient consent in medical treatment. This pivotal decision emphasised the necessity for doctors to ensure patients are fully informed about the material risks and alternatives related to their treatments, writes Max Cosstick for the latest issue of PI Focus. The Montgomery ruling underscored that patients must be aware of any material risks involved in recommended treatments and any reasonable alternatives. This principle is grounded in the notion of bodily autonomy and the right to informed consent, transforming the dynamic between patients and healthcare providers. Since Montgomery, the legal landscape has continued to evolve. Recent cases like Sidra Bilal & Hassaan Aziz Malik v St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and CNZ v Royal Bath Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have further refined what constitutes reasonable alternative treatments and underscored the importance of patient choice, particularly in childbirth settings. The latest General Medical Council guidelines echo Montgomery’s ethos, outlining seven principles of decision-making and consent, ensuring that patient autonomy remains central to medical care. This post was merely a summary of one of the many insightful articles to be read in PI Focus – APIL’s bi-monthly member magazine. If you like what you’ve read, and want to read more fascinating articles from experts across the PI sector, join APIL today to access your PI Focus magazine: https://bit.ly/3Hd6Rkw #PIFocus #MedicalLaw #PatientConsent #ClinicalNegligence #Montgomery

💡 iQ Medical Supporting University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust on Stop the Pressure Day 💡 Today our very own Lisa Hinchliffe is at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham today, proudly supporting the Tissue Viability Team during their Stop the Pressure Day. Are you really looking, are you really listening…? This year’s focus is particularly meaningful, highlighting the importance of inclusivity and recognising pressure damage across all skin tones and addressing the unique challenges of caring for End of Life patients. At iQ Medical, we’re committed to supporting our healthcare heroes. Our team will be out and about this week in support of Stop the Pressure Campaigns. Did you know that in older people Pressure Ulcers are associated with a Fivefold increase in mortality with hospital mortality reported at 25% to 35%. The more we can do to raise awareness the better the chances of survival rates and reduced mortality rates. #StopThePressure #TissueViability #HealthcareHeroes #PatientCare #PreventPressureUlcers

If you seek some academic summer reading, please eel free to download the article I have co-written with Stinne Glasdam and Sigrid Stjernsward. We have explored how different understandings of care and treatment conflicted between ethnic minority patients with palliative care needs and nurses with a ethnic majoiry backgrund. The nurses often represented a medical, neoliberal logic of disease, treatment, and care, while the patients often represented a non-medical logic of disease, formed by their lives. In the article we show how the structural framework, like political healthcare logics, strategies, and priorities, can inflict suffering on patients and create frustration amongst professionals. Hope you will give it a read! https://lnkd.in/dxs2ipsc

Treating breathlessness—why it’s important and finding new approaches. In a new interview on the hub today, we speak to Anna Moore, a respiratory doctor who has a long-standing interest in breathlessness management. In this interview, Anna explains some of the causes of breathlessness including its links to a wide range of socioeconomic factors. She outlines the person-centred, multi-disciplinary approach her team at Barts Health NHS Trust is taking to help people overcome breathlessness and highlights the need for more research in this area: https://lnkd.in/eqmb3Mev #pslhub #patientsafety #avoidableharm #healthinequalities #patientengagement

In their @Health_Affairs Forefront article, Vinaya Gogenini, @WendyBarrMD, & @FMresearchplcy discuss the constraints of funding instability for teaching health centers, why it's a national health issue, and what policy makers should do about it. https://bit.ly/4aVtDu7

Fascinating and timely research! Hyunkyung Yulia Yun's study highlights the critical importance of continuity of care, particularly for older adults. The findings on increased hospital visits, lower quality care, and higher costs associated with switching clinicians are alarming. This research has significant implications for healthcare policy and practice, emphasizing the need for strategies that promote care coordination and clinician-patient relationships. Congratulations on this impactful work!