Organisation stuff

Question 1

What are the DVLA rules around drinking and driving

Answer 1

Alcohol misuse - tell DVLA and can’t drive for 6m

Alcohol dependency - can’t drive for a year

Question 2

DVLA rules for drugs

Answer 2

no driving for 6m if e.g. cannabis

If crack/ methadone/ meth/ cocaine then 1 year

Question 3

How long can a sick note last

Answer 3

maximum of 3 months in the first 6 months of a patient’s illness. If after 6m can be as long as you want

Question 4

When can you put old age on a death certificate

Answer 4

80+

Question 5

Fitness to fly rules for heart issues:
- CABG
- MI
- Uncontrolled HTN
- stroke

Answer 5

10d after CABG

7-10d after uncomplicated MI (4-6 weeks if complicated)
PCI - 3d

If uncontrolled anything can’t fly

Stroke 10d

Question 6

At what age can a child legally consent to sex

Answer 6

13

Question 7

Resp fitness to fly rules
- pneumonia
- Pneumothorax

Answer 7

Pneumonia - must be no residual infection

pneumothorax - 2 weeks after successful drainage or BTS says a week after check XR

Question 8

Pregnancy fitness to fly rules

Answer 8

Most airlines want a certificate after 28 weeks to say everything ok

If single pregnancy not after 36 weeks
If multiple not after 32

Question 9

Flying rules if had a cast on for fracture

Answer 9

if flight is less than 2h wait 24h

If flight is more than 2h wait 48h

Question 10

Flying rules if had abdominal surgery

Answer 10

10d

24 if laparoscopic or colonoscopy

Question 11

Who can claim universal credit and what is it?

Answer 11

A benefit system that includes 6 old benefits in one e.g. child benefit/ jobseekers/ income support

To be eligible
- Live in UK and be 18+ (rarely 16/17y/o if e.g. estranged from family.
- Have less than 16k in savings
- Be below state pension age

Question 12

How long is statutory sick pay paid

Answer 12

up to 28 weeks.
Minimum around £120 a week
Need to earn average £123 a week
Have to have been ill for 3+ days

Question 13

Foster care rules

Answer 13

limit of 3 foster children per family (Schedule 7 of the Children Act 1989)

all children in long-term foster care require a 6-monthly medical examination

Question 14

Who automatically qualifies for a blue badge

Answer 14

People automatically qualify for a badge if they are over two years old and meet at least one of the following criteria:

Receiving the Higher Rate of the Mobility Component of the Disability Living Allowance

Receiving a Personal Independence Payment for being unable to walk further than 50 metres (a score of 8 points or more under the ‘moving around’ activity of the mobility component)

Registered blind (severely sight impaired)

Receiving a War Pensioner’s Mobility Supplement

Has received a lump sum benefit within tariff levels 1-8 of the Armed Forces and Reserve Forces (Compensation) Scheme and has been certified as having a permanent and substantial disability which causes inability to walk or very considerable difficulty in walking.

Question 15

From what age is it presumed that a young person is able to consent to their own treatment

Answer 15

16

Question 16

Within what time frame should reports be sent to insurer
Who pays the fee

Answer 16

within 20 working days
Insurance usually pay.
DO NOT send copy of notes

WRITTEN Consent is needed from the patient. If they ask you not to include something you then have to tell the insurer you can’t do it but don’t need to give a reason. The applicant has 21 days from the time of notification to exercise the right to see the report

Question 17

When can a matB1 form be issued

Answer 17

After 20 weeks

Question 18

What makes you eligible for maternity pay

Answer 18

You’ve been employed continuously for at least 26 weeks

Question 19

How long do you get mat pay for

Answer 19

Paid max 39 weeks. Earliest it can start is 11w before birth

Question 20

What level of heart failure cant you drive

Answer 20

Class 4 - they need to tell DVLA

Question 21

What AAA can’t you drive

Answer 21

if over 6.5 (tell DVLA at 6)
5.5 if group 2

Question 22

What time frame to acknowledge a complaint

Answer 22

3d

Question 23

How long do you have to provide someone with their medical records after written request

Answer 23

28d

Question 24

What is the Carr Hill formula

Answer 24

formula used to adjust the global sum dependent on the demographic of the practice.

Question 25

RIDDOR reportable things

Answer 25

Carpal tunnel syndrome Cramp of the hand or forearm Occupational dermatitis Hand arm vibration syndrome Occupational asthma Tendonitis or tenosynovitis Occupational cancer Exposure to a biological agent

Question 26

How long do breaks have to be and how long between shifts

Answer 26

Entitled to 20 mins 11h between shifts

Question 27

How much emergency supply can a pharmacist give

Answer 27

smaller quantities of insulin salbutamol full cycle pill 5 days phenobarbital / CDs in schedule 4 or 5