Children and consent for medical treatment All adult patients in Australia are presumed to be competent to provide consent to their own treatment. But can children and young people give consent?
Reflective learning: What the Dr Bawa-Garba case means for GPs in Australia Following Dr Hadiza Bawa-Garba’s successful appeal of a lifetime ban from the UK medical register, many practitioners remain concerned about their own learning processes. But medico-legal experts told newsGP that Australian practitioners are on safer ground.
RACGP broadly supports new medical code of conduct The RACGP is largely in favour of the Medical Board of Australia’s revised code of conduct for doctors.
More than 90% of adult patients say their GP is listening to them The vast majority of Australian patients are happy with how their GP listens to them, shows respect and gives them time, new data from the AIHW’s patient experience survey shows.
Medical negligence: What GPs need to know For the fifth of a series on legal matters in general practice, newsGP spoke with two experts regarding what GPs need to know about medical negligence.
It should be My Health Record RACGP President-elect Dr Harry Dr Nespolon looks at the current debate about privacy and medical records, which he says extends far beyond My Health Record.
Dr Bawa-Garba successfully appeals removal from medical register The UK Court of Appeal restored the Medical Practitioners Tribunal’s original order that Dr Bawa-Garba be suspended from practice for 12 months.
Give patients the full truth on cancer: RACGP President-elect RACGP President-elect Dr Harry Nespolon has questioned the push for low-grade cancers to be relabelled.
Managing de-implementation in general practice New guidelines arrive with great fanfare, but what happens to older recommendations that become obsolete? newsGP talks de-implementation with Dr Justin Coleman.
RACGP releases new standards for after-hours and medical deputising services The RACGP has released its Standards for after-hours and medical deputising services (5th edition).