Patient safety ‘at risk’ as junior doctors left to run A&E and other departments, GMC warns Junior doctors are being left in charge of hospital A&E departments and other units, putting patient safety at risk, Britain’s medical regulator has warned.
Trainee medics are being “left to fend themselves” by being asked to look after patients they are not qualified to treat, the General Medical Council (GMC) said.
Its chief executive, Charlie Massey, said inexperienced young doctors left without supervision feel worried they might “inadvertently cause harm to patients” and risk losing their licence if they act beyond their competence. The Independent
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Trainee medics are being “left to fend themselves” by being asked to look after patients they are not qualified to treat, the General Medical Council (GMC) said.
Its chief executive, Charlie Massey, said inexperienced young doctors left without supervision feel worried they might “inadvertently cause harm to patients” and risk losing their licence if they act beyond their competence. The Independent
See also:
- Training environments 2017: key findings from the national training surveys General Medical Council
- Medical training too reliant on doctors' goodwill, says GMC General Medical Council
- Patients put at risk by inexperienced doctors left in charge of A&E The Daily Telegraph
- Inexperienced doctors are being left in charge of A&Es, regulator warns The Guardian
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