Summer 2017

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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Leader

The ticking clock of clinical negligence reform

The new government must reform the outdated clinical negligence system, before it's too late.

Dr Christine Tomkins2

Case study

Treating adolescents

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

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Feature

Visionary ideas: the Arclight and RCP bedside vision check tool

The MDU is proud to help open members' eyes to two new tools that help quickly and easily assess patients' vision.

Consent should be a collaborative process...

In focus

Anaesthesia and consent: interpreting and applying new guidelines

Jo Nixon looks over the latest guidance on consent from the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland.

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In focus

Remediation: insight and improvement

Jerard Ross explains how remediation can help you improve and rebuild your practice after something has gone wrong.

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Case study

Patient consent: an anaesthetist's dilemma

An anaesthetist was unsure how to proceed after clashing with a colleague over patient consent to receive blood products.

News

MDU to co-host PIAA international medical indemnity conference

The MDU is proud to co-host the PIAA's international medical indemnity conference in central London this October. Our chief executive Dr Christine Tomkins has the details.

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