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New Insights paper – Demographics, professions and concerns: What are the patterns in Practitioner Performance Advice cases?

Our Practitioner Performance Advice service has published its latest Insights paper: Demographics, professions and concerns: What are the patterns in Practitioner Performance Advice cases? This Insight looks at over 3,500 practitioners for whom we received a request for advice over a five year period from April …

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Roll-out of compassionate conversations workshops

Our Practitioner Performance Advice Education service is delivering a new evidence-based, half-day workshop, called compassionate conversations. This workshop has been designed for multi-disciplinary audiences who are regularly involved in conversations about individual healthcare practitioners’ performance. It focuses on compassion as a crucial component of such …

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Case of note: KC v. Dr. Edward Gaynor (High Court, 20 April 2023 – Judge Howells)

Introduction This claim arose from a consultation with the defendant general practitioner on 29 December 2016, at which Dr. Gaynor diagnosed a haematoma of the right groin.  In fact, the patient had an abscess which, a few days later, progressed to necrotising fasciitis necessitating amputation …

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