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Primary care news round-up (27th June to 3rd July 2024)

Practice Index

The BMA replied: “The increasing demonstrable confusion that has been caused by the use of ‘medical professionals’ to apply to staff other than doctors has the potential to lead to significant patient harm and is clearly a departure from the assurances the GMC offered in 2020.”

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Nursing Leadership: What Is It and Why Is It Important?

Relias

Maintains a physical presence through onsite visits, rounding, or huddles to provide direct support and appreciation. Can analyze reports and data dashboards but maintains focus on people — consistently supporting, motivating, and inspiring others. healthcare and positioning it for advancement.

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MIT hosts COVID-19 policy debate

Sensible Medicine

Yet, from 2020-2022, I was not asked to debate these topics at any university. I encourage the readers of Sensible Medicine who work at universities to email your chair and to request a Grand Rounds on controversial COVID-19 policy. And yet, there are very few such debates. And if you run a conference series then what's stopping you?

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Meet a Champion of Nursing Diversity: Suzette Porter

Minority Nurse

Then COVID hit in 2020, and my manager decided she would retire. So what I do with my team is I huddle with them. I huddle with my staff in the morning at the beginning of a shift. I started in 2019 and graduated in 2021 with my MBA. So from there, from 5 CE, I went over to 4 St. So on 4 St. John, we moved from 4 St.

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Doctor’s Failure to Follow Up on Medical Test Leads to Large Settlement

Pulmonology Advisor - Practice Management

In June of 2020, Dr P ordered a chest scan for the patient. The scan of Mr W’s left lung revealed a complicated bulla (a rounded air-filled space in the lung, often found in emphysema and COPD, which has been linked to lung cancer in some cases1,2). That fall, in November 2020, Mr W had a telehealth appointment with Dr P.

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“The virus is the boss” — U.S. lives and livelihoods at the beginning of 2021

Health Populi

economy lost 140,000 jobs — the greatest job loss since April 2020 in the second month of the pandemic. The 2020-21 economic recession is the first time in U.S. Health Populi’s Hot Points: While the 2007-8 Great Recession was considered more of a “He-Cession,” this round of U.S.

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The She-Cession – a Financially Toxic Side-Effect of the Coronavirus Pandemic

Health Populi

This round of the pandemic Great Lockdown forced workers who could do so to work from home via online connections – their companies’ virtual private networks, and households’ broadband WiFi accounts. Men are still the primary breadwinners. “When the economy crumbled, women fell — hard.”

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