GP issues
General practitioners face a variety of ethical issues in their surgeries. These articles have special relevance to GP issues.
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At what cost? Stewardship and commissioning (triple helix - winter 2011)
key points - A key element of the NHS reforms will be the transfer of commissioning from Primary Care Trusts to the new Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs). The author explores the ethical dilemmas that clinician commissioners will inevitably face due to the conflict of interest between...
Dr Roxana Walker on doctors speaking about faith.
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CMF member Dr. Roxana Walker speaks to BBC Nottingham about the issues raised in the Dr Richard Scott case. He's the Christian GP who's been disciplined for speaking about his faith.
Duration: 4 mins
stewards of words (nucleus - winter 2010)
Andrew Flatt explores confidentiality. - The call to love our neighbour is a broad one, and encompasses use of information – whether to comfort, guide or advise. Knowledge is indeed power, and the facts we know as doctors – both in terms of therapeutic processes and specific patient stories –...
The vulnerable: their quality of care (triple helix - winter 2010)
key points - Care for the vulnerable dominates medicine, both clinically and ethically, and Jesus endorsed Old Testament obligations. In contemporary Britain, vulnerability extends beyond poverty and it is a lack of strong relationships with reliable people which makes many especially vulnerable,...
funding health and social care - who pays and how? (triple helix - spring 2010)
The rising costs of health and social care are an ever present but rarely acknowledged background to the end-of-life debate raging at the moment, and with the General Election expected on 6 May, the debate about social care funding has become particularly heated. Eighteen charities including Carers...
rickets resurgence in the UK (nucleus - spring 2010)
Hours spent inside by children playing computer games or watching television are thought to be contributing to the resurgence of rickets in the UK. Associated with poverty in Victorian Britain and malnutrition in developing countries, rickets is caused by chronic vitamin D deficiency, resulting in...
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Duration: 6 mins
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Dr Birtwhistle: praying for patients
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Dr Bernadette Birtwhistle started a debate at the BMA annual meeting that health professionals should be allowed to offer spiritual support to patients.
Duration: 1 mins
Staff behaving badly (triple helix - spring 2009)
Rachel Pope on negative behaviours in the workplace. - Following personal experiences the author, a physiotherapist, became interested in negative behaviours in the NHS. She discusses published examples with illustrate national data. Seeing these behaviours as broader than 'bullying', she conducted...