From 1 October 2013, MPS is changing its membership rules for healthcare professionals who conduct fetal ultrasound scans. Members need to ensure that they are in the correct membership category if fetal scanning forms part of their professional practice.

Dr Graham Howarth looks at how understanding the reasons behind challenging interactions with patients can help improve outcomes.

In the September 2013 edition of the Medical Tribune HK, MPS medicolegal advisor Dr Marika Davies explores how to stay safe when using social media.

Dr Graham Howarth, MPS Head of Medical Services (Africa), considers how vicarious liability relates to your risk, the circumstances in which it may arise and what you can do to reduce the risks.

Following a significant increase in medical negligence claims and complaints, an MPS survey of nearly 700 South African private GPs has found that 58% are practising defensively.

MPS’s Sara Williams explores unprofessional practice in the July edition of the Medical Chronicle.

We outline the steps doctors can take to ensure they have comprehensive protection in place should anything go wrong.

Sarah Whitehouse explores the importance of managing and retaining medical records.

MPS has written to the HPCSA to urge them to expedite regulations that require all doctors to have adequate professional indemnity or insurance protection for clinical negligence.

The Medical Protection Society (MPS) and the Malaysian Medical Association (MMA) held the Surviving the Medicolegal Jungle road show at the end of February 2013.

MPS has responded to the National Treasury’s consultation on a series of draft regulations it published in the Government Gazette on 30 November 2012.

Singapore Minister of Health, Mr Gan Kim Yong, met with the Medical Protection Society (MPS) at the end of July 2012 to discuss issues of mutual interest such as support and regulation of health professionals in the UK and Singapore.

MPS welcomes the Supreme Court ruling that pregnancy resulting from medical misadventure, in the form of a negligently performed female sterilisation operation, is a personal injury for which ACC cover lies.

Dr Elizabeth Ormerod and Dr Andrew Muirhead-Smith reflect on how they remember the Christchurch earthquake as junior doctors

The Medical Protection Society (MPS) is reminding doctors that the patient’s interest should always be the main priority and their judgment should not be clouded by money or gifts.