The GMC has produced a interactive teaching session to increase awareness of the legal issues around the complex decision making that can occur at the end of life. This includes an interplay with the mental capacity act & safeguarding. The GMC have also produced case studies which the FY2 doctors, whom we trialled this session on, received well and worked through. We complimented this with clinical teaching around pain and safe prescribing by our team.
This was the first time we had done this but it was highly evaluated by all concerned and we hope to role out a program of sessions using this format.
At the end we also found time to pose for a Hello My Name Is photo - timely after the launch of the National campaign by Dr Kate Granger. As the GMC new tag line says " Working with doctors , working for patients" and they are doing just that. A link to the new updated GMC guidance is referenced.