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Clinical records, consent, confidentiality, communication, competence, and prescribing - what medical students and junior doctors need to know about these common medicolegal risk areas and how to avoid them.
Read moreThe receipt and storage of images of patients is currently a common source of queries from our members, largely due to the increased use of remote consultations during the COVID-19 pandemic. Ayisha Hooper, Case Manager at Medical Protection, reviews the relevant guidance.
Read moreA GP faces a clinical negligence claim on the grounds of failure to undertake cardiac-related investigations. This case report looks at how MPS successfully sought mediation as an alternative form of dispute resolution, avoiding formal court proceedings.
Read moreDr Jayne Molodynski, medicolegal consultant at Medical Protection, provides advice and guidance on whether a patient can request amends to their medical records
Read moreDr Emma Davies, medicolegal consultant at Medical Protection, answers some questions around the professional and personal use of social media and the potential pitfalls faced by those working in healthcare
Read moreHandling disclosure requests concerning children and young people can be a complex and emotive issue. Kate Cowan, case manager at Medical Protection, looks at the issue in more detail
Read moreFin Wright, case manager at Medical Protection, provides guidance to practices who are approached by the police regarding a disclosure of medical records
Read moreAyisha Hooper, case manager at Medical Protection, looks at the reasons why practices can be approached by solicitors for the disclosure of medical records
Read moreBrian Caldwell-White, case manager at Medical Protection, provides guidance on handling requests to release the medical records of a deceased patient
Read moreThe quality record-keeping of a GP member is key to the defence of this claim.
Read moreA patient makes a claim against an anaesthetist member following intra-operative accidental awareness, which she alleged resulted in psychiatric injury.
Read moreMedical Protection’s Medicolegal Adviser Dr Clare Redmond discusses how to manage a situation where a patient asks to be discharged
Read moreA patient makes a claim against an anaesthetist member following intra-operative accidental awareness, which she alleged resulted in psychiatric injury.
Read moreIn this article, medicolegal consultant Dr Rachel Birch talks with Dr Richard Fieldhouse, Chairman of NASGP, about how the experiences of locum GPs have led NASGP to design systems to save practices and locum GPs time, provide information and improve patient care.
Read moreWe have made a list of the things to remember when it comes to making and retaining good patient records.
Read moreGood medical records – whether electronic or handwritten – are essential for the continuity of care of your patients. Adequate medical records enable you or somebody else to reconstruct the essential parts of each patient contact without reference to memory. They should therefore be comprehensive enough to allow a colleague to carry on where you left off.
Read moreThis video provides some valuable lessons in diagnosis, documentation and the information that needs to be communicated to patients.
Read moreA private neurosurgeon faces questions on consent, following a lumbar microdiscectomy sciatica and back pain.
Read moreDr W faces a regulatory hearing after a delayed diagnosis – find out how record-keeping helped the defence.
Read moreOphthalmologist Dr P receives a claim alleging poor consent and technique – but is that the real cause?
Read moreTreatment of an itchy rash leads to a claim against GP Dr U, but was he negligent?
Read moreAfter a serious car crash, Dr C is called before an inquest – Medical Protection is called in to support.
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