Sunday, December 11, 2011

Don't name and shame GPs | Ben Daniels

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Instead of publishing online medical errors, the NHS needs to encourage a more positive way to prevent slipping

compensation payments are negligent GP. As a way to fight against this, the government suggests that we name and shame by the publication of data from our mistakes and online performance. The idea is that this will allow patients to choose their doctor based on their history and market forces resulting from the loss of customers (patients) will motivate us to improve.

Personally, the idea of ??making a mistake and lack motivation something serious enough. Every night I go home knowing that I could have made a mistake with potentially catastrophic consequences. It is terrible and most doctors will tell you about it wakes up in a cold sweat, petrified that could have made the wrong decision for a patient, we saw that day. Of course, there is a high degree of conservation of this fear. Making a mistake can not make us lose our jobs, but despite the general consensus that doctors are just for the money, we care about our patients and the idea that someone could get hurt in part because of us is a horror that we have to live.

  • Given that continually have this level of fear is not surprising that many doctors have a low threshold to refer patients for specialized care. This may seem an obvious solution, but we are also under enormous pressure to keep our part numbers below. The NHS is relatively cheap, in part because doctors are worried successful yard away from hospitals and specialists. High levels of reference are expensive and drive up wait times. Most likely come a time when doctors are too eager to send their patients to the hospital will be penalized for the use of resources.
  • clear that doctors are under pressure from all sides, but sometimes they make mistakes that we strengthen and take responsibility. Five years ago I was diagnosed a patient who has a panic attack when he had symptoms of heart disease. It was certainly a mess for me, although my error does not harm the patient. If the current proposals go ahead, my patients are entitled to know about the previous blunder? Would enroll in another surgery next? All my patients who want to get a heart monitor now attached to the chest and an interview with 10 minutes on every detail of their chest pain. If you experience a panic attack before I came, it's time to stop! My practice has changed because I'm afraid that a patient could potentially damage the future due to my misjudgment. I am not convinced that the addition to give up performance statistics altered really do much difference.
am ready to own and take responsibility for my mistakes, but we all agree that the real key is to avoid making mistakes in the future. Instead of spending money to dredge my past for me the label of a set of statistical data on performance, you may be better to find more positive ways to prevent future breaches. In our practice, we found by talking openly about our mistakes helped. With patients who had a serious diagnosis is late, looked through the notes together to address what we might do differently next time. If there was a medical field, we felt it was not the level of knowledge, we encouraged each other to catch up on the latest research.

was 300 million GP consultations in England last year and just over 7000 complaints to the Medical Defence Union. That's about 42,000 a complaint for each consultation. Most doctors are good in their work and this is reflected in the current high levels of confidence in our profession. When mistakes are made, we must take responsibility for them, but also be encouraged to learn from them in a supportive and open. I do not really think that the current proposals that offer this. I also suggest that you do not really address the issue of doctors not to persistent poverty. If a doctor can not learn and makes the time to make the same mistakes again and again, probably something more to do than just naming and shaming him on a government site.


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