Medical

Health Boards should ensure that the level of medical staffing planned and provided is sufficient to provide safe high-quality care.

Health Boards should ensure that any patient with suspected CDI receives full clinical assessment by senior medical staff, that specific antibiotic therapy for CDI is commenced timeously.

Health Boards should ensure that clear, accurate and legible patient records are kept by doctors, that records are seen as integral to good patient care.

Health Boards should ensure that where a death occurs in hospital the consultant in charge of the patients care is involved in completion of the death certificate wherever practicable.

Armed Forces medical personnel can and should be involved in providing advice that a CPErS is not fit for detention or questioning. Alternatively, the medic may validly advise that no …

The medical policy for CPErS should include: (1) CPErS must undergo a medical examination within four hours of capture, unless there are compelling circumstances; (2) CPErS should be examined by …