Clinical Excellence Awards 2017
ACCEA have now announced that the 2017 round will open on 28 February 2017 and will close at 1700 hours on Tuesday 25 April 2017. The ACCEA website is yet to be updated for the 2017 round so please keep checking, however there is to be no change on the forms used for 2016 so
New Confidentiality guidance published by the GMC
The General Medical Council (GMC) has today (Wednesday 25 January) published revised, expanded and reorganised guidance on confidentiality for all doctors practising in the UK. The guidance – Confidentiality: good practice in handling patient information – comes into effect from Tuesday 25 April 2017. Revisions have been made to the guidance, last published in 2009,
New bedside vision check tool to help prevent hospital inpatient falls
A new tool from the Royal College of Physicians (RCP), that enables ward staff to quickly assess a patient’s eyesight in order to help prevent them falling or tripping while in hospital, is being made available to Trusts and Local Health Boards in England and Wales from Monday 23 January 2017. ‘Look out! Bedside vision
Comment on ‘Visual acuity and its predictors after surgery for bilateral cataracts in children’ – (Eye Journal AOP)
Comment on ‘Visual acuity and its predictors after surgery for bilateral cataracts in children’ Eye advance online publication, January 20 2017. doi:10.1038/eye.2016.320 Authors: E Long, P Wan & Y Zhuo
Neovascular age-related macular degeneration: is it worthwhile treating an eye with poor visual acuity, if the visual acuity of the fellow eye is good? – (Eye Journal AOP)
Neovascular age-related macular degeneration: is it worthwhile treating an eye with poor visual acuity, if the visual acuity of the fellow eye is good? Eye advance online publication, January 20 2017. doi:10.1038/eye.2016.324 Authors: A Rasmussen, J Fuchs, L H Hansen, M Larsen, B Sander & H Lund-Andersen