Healthcare staff should make sure that only genuine penicillin allergies are recorded, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has said.
A good occupational health and safety management system can help to reduce risk and improve working conditions for everyone in an organization. However, it can be harder for business leaders to grasp the importance of tackling less tangible threats to health, such as noise and stress, as well as more obvious ones like trailing cables. New guidance aims to help organizations find their own route into improved occupational health and safety.
A new code of conduct published by the Department of Health and Social Care aims to help NHS patients benefit from artificial intelligence (AI) and other data-driven technologies.
The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges has released new guidance for hospital doctors, encouraging them to write directly to patients after outpatient appointments, rather than write about them to their GPs.
The Professional Record Standards Body (PRSB) has published revised standards on health and care records, aiming to ensure patient safety and better care.
