GPs & primary care professionals

Latest advice

This is the latest advice on medico-legal issues.

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• No such thing as bad publicity? - 4 September 2008
• A doctor’s criminal conviction is never spent - 17 July 2008
• Changes to GMC registration for doctors over 65 - 18 June 2008
• The importance of reviewing a complaint - 2 June 2008
• The Dentists Act 1984 (Amendment) Order 2005 – Article 35 - 20 May 2008
• New counter fraud code of practice - 8 May 2008
• Overseas treatment - 29 April 2008
• MDU agrees that apologies can help to resolve complaints - 15 April 2008
• New guidance on antibiotic prophylaxis - 1 April 2008
• Minimising radiation errors - 26 March 2008