But what are the rules surrounding this and what do doctors need to know?

Suzanne Creed, Clinical Risk Education Manager explains how to increase your understanding of conflict and provides some key strategies to deal with it more effectively.

Welcome to the September 2017 digital edition of New Doctor. Here we address a variety of medicolegal topics to help you develop your skills as a doctor.

MPS provides risk management consultancy, training and education to healthcare organisations spanning primary and secondary care. Our experience and expertise in this specialist field, spanning over a hundred years, enables us to work with clients in the development of bespoke workshops, courses and other education and risk management programmes to meet their specific needs.

If you’re not careful revalidation can take up more time, money and energy than you expect.

All qualified GPs should be participating in annual appraisal. They will be collecting supporting information for each appraisal, and for revalidation this information will be submitted to responsible officers who will make their recommendations to the GMC.

Revalidation is the process by which all doctors who wish to retain their licences must demonstrate to the GMC that they are up to date, fit to practise and complying with relevant professional standards.

The CQC is the regulator for health and social care in England. It monitors, inspects and regulates general practices to make sure they meet fundamental standards of quality and safety.

Making a list and checking it twice – the things to remember when it comes to making and retaining good patient records.

As a Quality Administrator you will be responsible for completing quality assessment checks for our Medical Legal Advisors and Consultants and to provide administrative support to our quality assessors.

We are currently recruiting for a Reporting Analyst to join our Leeds city office on a 12 month fixed term contract. As a Reporting Analyst you will be responsible for reporting and providing organisation insight using analytics methods and other data mining techniques. You will work closely with our internal teams to generate on-going and new reports where appropriate.