Education and risk management

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MPS facilitates risk assessments in clinical settings, collaborating with academic institutions to deliver accredited courses in risk management

MPS strongly believes in the preventative value of education and risk management. MPS has a wealth of experience and expertise in helping doctors and other healthcare professionals with ethical and legal problems, and in reducing the risks that arise from their practice. This provides a unique insight into the reasons why things go wrong and why complaints and litigation occur, and into what can be done to reduce this.

MPS facilitates risk assessments in clinical settings, collaborating with academic institutions to deliver accredited courses in risk management, and offering a range of workshops designed specifically for healthcare professionals. The educational programmes available are based on more than 100 years’ experience and expertise in this field, and include courses and other programmes covering:

  • Clinical risk management
  • Practice systems and processes
  • Communication and interpersonal skills
  • Professionalism and ethics
  • Medicolegal issues.

One of the features of many complaints and claims against healthcare professionals is that of poor communication.

In 2007, MPS acquired The Cognitive Institute of Australia, a specialist provider of communication skills and risk management training to healthcare professionals throughout the world. Their widely acclaimed courses form a key part of the courses now offered by MPS. We also produce a range of educational materials, including Casebook and other medicolegal publications, information leaflets and online educational products. The publications section of the MPS website contains useful advice for reference or download, and printed copies of our publications are also available to members.

Stakeholder engagement

We play an active role in the health-policy sphere, exercising our influence to ensure that legislation and government policy decisions take into account the views and interests of members and the wider profession.

This takes the form of lobbying members of parliament and the devolved bodies, responding to consultation documents, hosting conferences and collaborating with other healthcare organisations.

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