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THE poor professional standards of a minority of senior healthcare workers, acting as mentors for medical students, are contributing to a decline in patient care and dignity, according to a new report by researchers at Dundee and Cardiff universities.
The eight year study by researchers at the two universities has uncovered evidence of senior healthcare practitioners, charged with teaching healthcare students across the NHS, talking about patients in their charge inappropriately, breaching confidentiality rules, and allowing students to practise on patients without valid consent.
http://www.scotsman.com/news/education/nhs-professionalism-study-shows-decline-in-care-1-2984523
The eight year study by researchers at the two universities has uncovered evidence of senior healthcare practitioners, charged with teaching healthcare students across the NHS, talking about patients in their charge inappropriately, breaching confidentiality rules, and allowing students to practise on patients without valid consent.
http://www.scotsman.com/news/education/nhs-professionalism-study-shows-decline-in-care-1-2984523