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Summer 2017

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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.

In focus

In focus

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.
Complaints Being sued
Leader

The ticking clock of clinical negligence reform

The new government must reform the outdated clinical negligence system, before it's too late.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