Clinicians, patients, quality and professional regulation
This page focusses on the relationship between patients and the health services. It doesn't give a very balanced view of health services, because it focusses on things that have gone wrong, although it does try to present different points of view. Doctors blogs seem to be as vitriolic as other people's, but just as interesting. We know that doctors are not the only significant health professionals, but they still get most of the attention. In case you get the wrong impression please be assured that we do know there are many excellent doctors and many of them are our members. And medical humour is not to everyone's taste either.
- Two Paths for Medical Practice Julian Tudor Hart Sept 1992
- Abetternhs's Blog
- Black Triangle - a medical/pharmaceutical blog
- Bristol Royal Infirmary Inquiry
- British Medical Association
- Campaign Against Unnecessary Suspensions & Exclusions in the NHS
- Country Doctors Association
- David Cameron: Speech on Primary Care April 2008
- Disciplinary procedures for doctors and dentists
- Doctor Bloggs
- Doctors and dentists: discipline and suspension
- Doctors for Reform
- Doctors' morale and well being (BMJ)
- Dr Foster's guide to hospital consultants
- Dr Grumble's blog
- Dr Rant's blog
- The English Physician blog
- Ferret Fancier
- Freedom to care - a site about whistleblowing
- Galen
- General Medical Council
- General Practice Assessment Questionnaire
- Good doctors, safer patients: Proposals to strengthen the system to assure and improve the performance of doctors and to protect the safety of patients July 2006
- Good Patient BMJ 2003
- General Practice Assessment Questionnaire
- Health Committee Report on Patient Safety 2009
- Hippocrates
- Independent Inquiry into Modernising Medical Careers
- Inquiries Act 2005
- Learning from Bristol: are we? Ian Kennedy 2006
- Longitudinal cohort study of quality in general practice (QUIP)
- Militant Medical Nurse
- Musings of a disheartened doctor
- National Health Service as precursor for future society: Julian Tudor Hart
- National Patient Safety Agency
- NHS Blog Doctor
- NHS bureaucrats care for themselves, not the patients 2010
- NHS Patients Survey Programme
- Nick Robinson on Gordon Brown versus doctors - and extensive comments June 2007
- Onmedica Blogs
- Patient Protect
- Patients not numbers, people not statistics - Patients' Association 2009
- Picker Institute Europe
- Professional Concern
- Professional conduct and regulation (BMJ collection)
- Quality and Outcomes Framework for GP practices
- Raising concerns and whistleblowing BMA
- Database of Guidance for GPs
- Regulating Health and Social Care Professionals SHA Conference October 2006
- Richard Neale, Committee of inquiry to investigate how the NHS handled allegations about the performance and conduct of Richard Neale
- Q Fever
- Quackwatch
- The Shipman Enquiry
- Trusts still fail to give whistleblowers a voice 2009
- U. K. Community Issues Party
- We must accept that health care is a risky business Peter Walsh 2003
- What do you think of your doctor? Picker Institute 2006
- Why Pakistani Medical Graduates Must Remain Free to Emigrate