Health and Safety
Covid-19 - PPE and Infection Control
Guidance From June 2022 June 2022 - NHSE have issued a letter updating the IPC Guidance. UKHSA has updated its UK IPC guidance for COVID-19: information and advice for health and care professionals with new COVID-19 pathogen-specific advice for health and care professionals. This advice...
Covid-19 - Practical and Operational Issues
We are aware that there is a lot of information coming from a number of directions. With this in mind we are creating webpages for various issues that we have been asked about. Workforce Covid-19 - NHS Volunteer Responders - NHSVR for the NHS COVID-19 vaccination...
Covid-19 - Staff Risk Assessments
Risk Assessment Frameworks for Staff in General Practice during Covid-19 Covid-19 has presented a significant challenge in assessing and mitigating risks to all staff in healthcare settings. The early data from Italy indicated a high rate of infection and death amongst healthcare workers and...
Covid-19 Patients refusing to wear face coverings
We have been asked on a number of occasions if practices can refuse to see patients that will not wear a face covering in a face-to-face consultation. You cannot refuse to see someone on the basis that they refuse to wear a face covering. However, there are factors that you can...
Health & Safety - Legionella
Legionnaires' disease is a potentially fatal form of pneumonia caused by the inhalation of small droplets of contaminated water containing Legionella. All man-made hot and cold water systems are likely to provide an environment where Legionella can grow. Where conditions are favourable (ie...
Health & Safety Audio & Video Podcasts and Recorded Webinars
You can record your reflections on this form or via your learning diary here: https://www.fourteenfish.com/about/learningdiary learningdiary. CQC is particularly keen to see any evidence of your watching/listening and how you apply it. Fire Evacuation - is your practice compliant? Louise...
Health and Wellbeing: Burnout
Ok, it's time to get more serious now. If the constant stress of work and life is leaving you feeling disillusioned, helpless and worn out then you may be suffering from burnout. Burnout is a state of emotional, mental and physical exhaustion caused by excessive demands and prolonged stress....
Health and Wellbeing: Organisational Stress
So far we have considered the implications of stress and burnout for individuals. However we have another important dimension to consider - what are the practices responsibilities to manage stress caused by or made worse by work. As we have seen individuals differ in their risk of experiencing...
Health and Wellbeing: Stress
'Stress is a condition or feeling experienced when a person perceives that their demands exceed the personal and social resources the individual is able to mobilize'. In short, it's what we feel when we think we have lost control of events. The key concept here, is that it is an emotional and...
Health and Wellbeing: Introduction
We live and work in difficult times. Everyday the news seems full of bad news stories, the pressure of daily life seems to increase exponentially and there never seems to be enough time in the day. The NHS is facing unprecedented challenges as it struggles to meet increasing demands and...
Hepatitis B and Occupational Health
This is a complex area and one that keep cropping up. If in doubt after reading this then please contact the office. 1. Is there a requirement under the Regulations to prescribe and administer Hepatitis B vaccination for occupational health purposes? The Regulations requires GPs to manage...
Infection Control & Cleanliness - Audio & Video Podcasts and Recorded Webinars
You can record your reflections on this form or via your learning diary here: https://www.fourteenfish.com/about/learningdiary CQC are particularly keen to see any evidence of your learning, and how you apply it. Cleanliness in General Practice Wessex LMCs Practice Nurse Advisor, Zoe Tobin,...
Mental Capacity
Adults have a right to make their own decisions, even decisions which may seem unwise to others. The Mental Capacity Act 2005 is legislation that protects and describes this right and it also safeguards for those who lack capacity. It is actually relatively easy to read for a piece of...
The Emergency Doctors Bag
What drugs should I carry or have accessible? GPs must be able to defend themselves on grounds of good clinical practice. Different practices operate in different settings with different resources around them i.e. a GP practising in a remote rural setting will have different considerations from...
