The sharp end – dealing with knife crime

Witnesses of knife crime may often flee the scene but doctors and medical students are volunteering to educate people on how to react to and contain violence. Keith Cooper reports

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The Doctor (September, issue 13)

12 September 2019

Widening participation – the doctors from difficult backgrounds make it into medicine, the homeless world cup, is the Government's mental health plan merely a wish list and testing times for overseas doctors
Homelessness: tackling public perceptions

11 September 2019

An escape from the moment, and a chance to challenge public perceptions – Peter Blackburn meets the doctors and participants at the Homeless World Cup
Testing times – overseas doctors prove their skills at GMC centre

11 September 2019

Overseas doctors wanting to work in the UK have often faced long delays before they can demonstrate they are safe to practise. A new GMC test centre aims to cut waiting times. Tim Tonkin reports

We do not have enough staff to provide safe services – patient safety and staff health and wellbeing are now compromised on a regular basis

The BMA is campaigning for the introduction of laws that mandate the provision of safe staffing levels across the UK.
Why is it so hard to delegate?

As an FY2, I had a registrar who was knowledgeable, pleasant and well-organised but who struggled with delegation. I don’t think he particularly mistrusted me, but he seemed only to be able to feel really confident about what he’d seen with his own eyes.
A bad rep

One of the few advantages of no longer being on the medical register is the comforting knowledge that despite the gravity of one’s misbehaviour, either currently or in the past, one can no longer be struck off.

Are you paying to go to work?

We asked GPs and hospital doctors about pension tax charges and how they’re affecting work commitments. Here are the results.
Neil Armstrong's doctor

When Neil Armstrong's crew returned to earth, it was flight surgeon Bill Carpentier who looked after them. Fifty years on, he tells us about his weeks quarantined with the moonwalkers.
The hard road back

Alastair Watt was a respected and hard-working consultant. His death raises serious questions about how the NHS looks after its doctors when they return to work after illness.
A place of refuge?

Squalid and overcrowded – we visit one of the largest refugee camps in Greece.
Streets of Shame

Homelessness and the NHS - a tome of tragedies
Born of injustice

Separated at Birth junior doctor and mother of two is back in family court, under very different circumstances.
Separated at birth

The impact of poor access to mental healthcare during pregnancy.
Waiting games

Nikki Mattocks has struggled with her mental health her whole life, owing to experiences such as bullying, trauma and abuse. Read her story here.
An end to market madness?

Quietly, the NHS is being reorganised by health leaders but the pace of change is being forced by frontline services buckling under pressure of increased demand and diminishing resources.
When a doctor calls for help

Dr Meng Aw-Yong explores the impact of a GMC investigation and where doctors can turn for support.
Care across boundaries

How volunteering in the UK and abroad benefits doctors and the countries that host them.
Enjoy your elective

Follow these medical students and their elective journeys in Malta, Australia, New Zealand, the Himalayan region of India, and at home in the UK.
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