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  • Why do patients complain?
    24 April 2025
  • Follow guidelines to avoid valproate complaints and claims
    12 December 2024
  • Inquests – how can we help?
    15 April 2024
  • Criminality in consultations
    24 August 2023
  • GDPR in general practice
    24 August 2023
  • Emails in primary care – pitfalls and positives
    24 August 2023
  • Medicolegal risks of phlebotomy practices in Ireland
    24 August 2023
  • Phlebotomy in Ireland
    24 August 2023
  • Managing the menopause in primary care
    24 August 2023
  • The complex issue of medical tourism
    24 August 2023
  • Who are the Asthma Society of Ireland?
    24 August 2023
  • What’s the difference between claims-made and occurrence-based indemnity?
    15 August 2023
  • Campaign launches for expert witnesses
    15 August 2023
  • What does discretionary indemnity mean for you?
    18 July 2023
  • Top tips on tackling stress as an IMG
    18 July 2023
  • Top 5 considerations for IMGs thinking about working in Ireland
    18 July 2023
  • Things I wish I knew before moving to Ireland
    18 July 2023
  • The Six Cs: Common risks for new doctors and how to avoid them
    18 July 2023
  • The Clinical Indemnity Scheme: What is it, and why it may not be enough
    18 July 2023
  • The anatomy of a regulatory case
    18 July 2023
  • Support and resources for the IMC registration process
    18 July 2023
  • Social media: best practice in a clinical setting
    18 July 2023
  • How the IMC registration process works
    18 July 2023
  • Chaperones: what are they?
    18 July 2023
  • Medical records: Why it comes down to the detail
    18 July 2023
  • Let’s talk: tough conversations with colleagues
    18 July 2023
  • Legal protection for apologies
    18 July 2023
  • How to find your first role as an IMG
    18 July 2023
  • Advice for finding work in Ireland as a junior doctor
    18 July 2023
  • Challenging patients – what options are available?
    18 July 2023
  • Ask the experts: considerations for doctors relocating to Ireland
    18 July 2023
  • Introduction to the HSE
    18 July 2023
  • Electives packing list
    24 March 2023
  • Advice on applying for funding for your elective
    24 March 2023
  • Top 10 things to consider when planning an elective
    24 March 2023
  • Giving evidence in court
    14 November 2022
  • Parental disagreements over a child patient
    09 November 2022
  • Prescribing: the medical minefield
    07 November 2022
  • Hidden devices – tackling the issue of recordings
    07 November 2022
  • Managing the menopause
    07 November 2022
  • Dealing with negative online reviews
    20 July 2022
  • Dealing with difficult patients
    20 July 2022
  • One size fits all? Conversations with patients on bariatrics
    20 July 2022
  • From hero to zero: how general practice has changed
    18 July 2022
  • Decision-making support in primary care
    18 July 2022
  • The dangers of self prescribing
    18 July 2022
  • High cost of claims in Ireland: Medical Protection calls for action
    18 July 2022
  • The importance of handovers
    03 February 2022
  • Ask the expert: Patient's refusal to attend
    13 September 2021
  • Vaccinations: what are the medicolegal risks?
    09 September 2021
  • From general practice to Medical Protection
    09 September 2021
  • Considering patient satisfaction within telemedicine
    08 September 2021
  • Life as a GP trainee – during COVID-19
    08 September 2021
  • A quick guide to handovers
    02 September 2021
  • Steps to effective empathy
    02 September 2021
  • Power and responsibility as an intern
    02 September 2021
  • Making the most of your intern year
    01 September 2021
  • How to survive life as an intern
    01 September 2021
  • Working the night shift
    01 September 2021
  • Tackling stress
    01 September 2021
  • Starting out: 10 essential tips for your intern year
    31 August 2021
  • Shaping the future: is telemedicine here to stay?
    10 June 2021
  • Confidentiality and COVID-19
    07 June 2021
  • How GP training has adapted to COVID-19
    07 June 2021
  • Let’s talk: tough conversations with colleagues
    07 June 2021
  • Complaints and COVID-19
    04 June 2021
  • COVID-19: Building resilience and lifting morale
    04 June 2021
  • Why do patients complain?
    29 April 2021
  • The Six C's: Common risks for new doctors and how to avoid them
    29 April 2021
  • Tackling sepsis
    21 April 2021
  • Learning from cases – insight into the claims landscape for General Practitioners in Ireland
    17 March 2021
  • COVID-19 vaccinations and your indemnity
    18 February 2021
  • Surviving Medical School: Social media
    11 February 2021
  • Surviving Medical School: Taking care of yourself
    11 February 2021
  • Surviving Medical School: Communication between colleagues
    11 February 2021
  • Surviving Medical School: Avoiding plagiarism
    04 February 2021
  • Ask the Expert: Medicolegal risks of remote consulting
    14 January 2021
  • COVID-19 and good communication
    19 November 2020
  • Medical records during COVID-19
    19 November 2020
  • Teleconsultations: Practical Checklist of Top Tips [Podcast]
    05 November 2020
  • [Podcast] Getting to sleep in the time of COVID-19
    27 July 2020
  • What does discretionary indemnity mean for you?
    06 July 2020
  • [Podcast] Vital Signs episode 3: A Life in General Practice – Dr Mary Favier in conversation
    06 July 2020
  • Supporting doctors through the clinical negligence process
    06 July 2020
  • [Podcast] Vital Signs episode 2: Confidentiality in general practice – helping you to get it right!
    29 June 2020
  • [Podcast] Vital Signs episode 1- Dr Maitiú Ó Tuathail's experience as a newly qualified GP
    26 June 2020
  • The Technology: Formula 1 to Ventilators [Video recording]
    17 June 2020
  • The Technology: The Rise of Zoom [Video recording]
    17 June 2020
  • The Science: Public Health - What Should We Be Doing? [Video recording]
    17 June 2020
  • The Science: Modelling - What Can We Expect Next? [Video recording]
    17 June 2020
  • The Science: The Vaccine - How This Acts and When Available [Video recording]
    17 June 2020
  • The Science: The Virus - Latest Update on Pathophysiology [Video recording]
    17 June 2020
  • The People: Project Wingman - Creating First Class Lounges [Video recording]
    17 June 2020
  • The People: Diversity and Risk [Video recording]
    17 June 2020
  • The Technology: An Update from the CEO of NHSX [Video recording]
    17 June 2020
  • The Technology: Cybersecurity [Video recording]
    17 June 2020
  • The Medicine: Paediatric Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome [Video recording]
    17 June 2020
  • The Medicine: Transformation of General Practice [Video recording]
    17 June 2020
  • The Medicine ICU Panel Discussion - What Have We Learnt [Video recording]
    17 June 2020
  • Lessons From COVID-19: Making Sense of the Pandemic [Video recording]
    17 June 2020
  • What Might Healthcare Look Like Post COVID? [Video recording]
    12 June 2020
  • The People: The Science of Wellbeing [Video recording]
    12 June 2020
  • The Medicine: Has COVID changed the doctor-patient relationship forever? [Video recording]
    12 June 2020
  • From the advice line: e-referrals
    10 June 2020
  • Children First Act 2015 – a practical guide for general practice
    10 June 2020
  • Minor surgery, major risks
    10 June 2020
  • Open disclosure – how can practices prepare now?
    10 June 2020
  • Remote consulting in primary care [Podcast]
    09 April 2020
  • Webinar recording - Remote Consulting during the COVID-19 outbreak
    06 April 2020
  • COVID-19 and remote consultations – how we can help
    16 March 2020
  • Brexit update
    04 February 2020
  • Attending the Paralympic Games
    13 December 2019
  • The results are in
    28 November 2019
  • Investing in GP training
    28 November 2019
  • Practice nurse indemnity – is your nurse adequately protected?
    28 November 2019
  • Mandatory open disclosure
    28 November 2019
  • Reinventing record keeping
    28 November 2019
  • GP dilemma: prescribing valproate
    28 November 2019
  • Infection prevention and control – mitigating the key risks
    25 November 2019
  • Meet Dr Mary Favier – President of the ICGP
    25 November 2019
  • Should I report that my patient is unfit to drive?
    18 September 2019
  • Risky business - examining your repeat prescribing process
    22 July 2019
  • From the advice line
    15 July 2019
  • Team communication within general practice
    08 July 2019
  • Litigation update
    28 June 2019
  • Mitigating complaints in an out of office hours general practice setting
    24 June 2019
  • Legal protection for apologies
    18 June 2019
  • A tale of two doctors: the junior and the consultant
    22 May 2019
  • Should I declare that my patient is fit to run a marathon?
    15 April 2019
  • Dilemmas of consent in general practice
    05 February 2019
  • From the advice line
    05 February 2019
  • Children and young people: reduce the risk
    05 February 2019
  • Artificial intelligence: who’s liable?
    05 February 2019
  • Medical Protection tackles the rising cost of clinical negligence
    18 January 2019
  • Injection errors
    08 January 2019
  • Confidentiality: case law update
    08 January 2019
  • Getting ready for GDPR
    16 April 2018
  • The Anatomy of a Regulatory Case
    25 August 2015
  • Balancing the risks and challenges in medicine
    25 August 2015
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    25 August 2015
  • The brain drain
    11 May 2015
  • Making the case for legal reform
    11 May 2015
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