... appropriate chaperones, and believe chaperones add to patient comfort and protect both doctor and patient. Health services Consultants Medical practice Surveillance United Kingdom In 2004 a Public Inquiry into the unprofessional behaviour of Dr Clifford Ayling, a General Practitioner from Kent...

...Jane Cowan Purpose With the new emphasis on patient safety in the General Medical Council's revised guidelines on good medical practice, this article seeks to draw doctors' awareness to their duties in this regard. Design/methodology/approach This article looks at recent important publications...

... services as part of their medical practice. The line dividing between conventional and aesthetic medicine is blurring as more people begin to regard aesthetic medicine as a form of medical science (Peng et al., 1995) and as part of conventional health services. In the UK, some hospitals...

... of non‐responding Clinical Audit Leads was also completed. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Clinical governance Auditing Production methods Control Medical practice National Health Service All effort goes on NSFs. Therefore there is no remaining capacity to do anything...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Medicines Medical practice Health and safety Youth United Kingdom In a letter in August 2004 the Chief Medical Officer (CMO), in conjunction with the Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) and the Chief Pharmaceutical Officer (CPO), announced important...

... service. Originality/value The evaluation of PIMs is in its practical and methodological infancy and this initiative represents the first attempt to utilise PIMs in the design of Primary Care psychological services. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Health services Medical practice...

.... Local governance itself, and alternative bases for quality management systems, should be examined as closely as these new documents. Medical practice Safety Quality standards ISO 9000 series For better or worse, the topic of making health care facilities safe places remains at the forefront...

... Limited 2004 Obstetrics Medical practice Medical treatment Safety The management of shoulder dystocia involves manipulating the foetal shoulders, to displace them from the antero‐posterior plane to allow delivery of the foetal body. These manoeuvres should be structured to minimise...

.... The IHD medications evaluated in our study included: aspirin (ASA), beta‐blockers (BB’s), angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEI’s) or angiotensin receptor blockers (ARB’s), and lipid‐lowering therapy. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Medical practice Heart Hospitals United States...

... of the recommendations nor attention to their adoption in clinical practice. Without substantial changes in their local use, practice guidelines will not be of any benefit in supporting the implementation of clinical governance. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Medical practice Clinical governance Carers Quality...