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Risk management: top issues and advice

Members of the MDU's expert team share their top tips on risk-management and traversing some common medico-legal issues.

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Learning lessons from complaints and claims about suicide

It's vital that lessons are learned from cases where a patient has taken their own life in order to improve suicide prevention, as Dr Beverley Ward explains.

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The ticking clock of clinical negligence reform

The new government must reform the outdated clinical negligence system, before it's too late.

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Treating adolescents

An example case from an MDU member highlights some key medico-legal issues for doctors treating adolescents.

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