Endocrine Abstracts

The need for Peer Review of UK endocrine units was agreed by the Clinical Committee of the Society for Endocrinology in 2001. The service is relevant to the agendas of clinical governance in endocrinology, and ensuring good quality universal care across the UK for patients. Peer Review presents an opportunity to improve patient care, support and facilitate service provision and innovation. Since Covid-19 (2020) there has been significant changes to the way we work and peer rev...

There have always been conversations between clinicians about management and potential referral of patients, predominately from primary care to specialists. This has been called variously ‘advice and guidance (A&G)’, ‘specialist advice’ or ‘advice and refer’ by NHS England (NHSE). In the last few years, A&G has become increasingly relevant with escalating clinic pressures and is now part of the NHSE/GIRFT ‘elective care recovery and t...

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