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The UK Prescribing Safety Assessment (PSA) is a ground-breaking medical exam with strong stakeholder support and is associated with increased confidence in prescribing and decreased reporting of medication-related patient harm. The

A continued reliance on paper, revealed by a BMJ survey, is less safe and efficient. And difficulties with sharing electronic records are preventing even the most advanced trusts from realising their full potential, writes Jo Best Three quarters of trusts in England that responded to a BMJ survey are still reliant on paper patient notes and drug charts, despite progress towards electronic records and prescribing. The survey results came in just as an expert panel convened by a House of Commons ...

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The UK government has failed to meet a key target to eliminate paper prescribing in hospitals and to introduce digital or “e-prescribing” across the entire NHS by 2024, an expert panel has concluded.1 The pledge, which was designed to improve hospital pharmacy services, is one of a string of pharmacy pledges that the government is failing to deliver on, said the panel convened by the Commons Health and Social Care Committee. The panel, chaired by the senior doctor and former Royal College of...

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One in five female doctors in the UK are aged between 45-54 when menopause is likely to occur - about 10 per cent of the entire GP workforce.

Nearly 40% of doctors who trained abroad do not have legal representation, compared with 25% of doctors who qualified in UK

A leading nurse academic has been appointed to an expert panel tasked with evaluating the government’s progress on its health and social care workforce

The GMC's first update on plans to eliminate bias in regulation and education shows a slight drop in disproportionate referrals of ethnic minority doctors.

Every year, the UN celebrates the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. For 2022, the focus is placed on recognizing the role women and girls play in STEM as beneficiaries and as agents of change.