3 in 10 doctors fear being blamed or facing legal action after admitting mistakes
Three in 10 doctors are worried about the repercussions of admitting to clinical errors, including facing legal action, a Medical Defence Union (MDU) survey has found. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - June 27, 2022 Category: Primary Care Tags: News Source Type: news
'Running on empty': one in four GPs warn extreme tiredness is affecting patient care
A quarter of GPs say they are regularly sleep deprived at work, while the same proportion admit extreme tiredness has impaired their ability to care for patients, a Medical Defence Union (MDU) survey shows. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - January 7, 2022 Category: Primary Care Tags: Wellbeing for GPs Source Type: news
Sponsored feature: Managing medico-legal risks with missed appointments
Dr Kathryn Leask, medico-legal adviser at the Medical Defence Union, explains what practices should when patients fail to turn up for appointments Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - May 22, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: noraelias at cogora.com Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Latest News Personal Practice Source Type: news
Sponsored feature: top tips on maintaining confidentiality in the practice
Dr Kathryn Leask, medico-legal adviser at the Medical Defence Union, on how practices can ensure they uphold confidentiality at all times
Maintaining patient confidentiality is essential to the trust that exists between practice and patients. Practice staff have a duty to protect a patient’s sensitive information and most breaches of confidentiality are made inadvertently. Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - April 24, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: Angela Sharda Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Latest News Personal Practice Source Type: news
Sponsored feature: mind the gap – the introduction of state indemnity
Dr Kathryn Leask, medico-legal adviser at the Medical Defence Union, explains why MDU membership remains essential following the introduction of state-backed indemnity
On 1 April this year, state-backed indemnity for primary care work under an NHS contract was introduced in England and Wales, and practice managers may be wondering how this affects the current indemnity from their medical defence organisation. Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - April 5, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: Angela Sharda Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Latest News Personal Practice Source Type: news
Sponsored feature: five steps to successfully resolving patient complaints
Medical Defence Union (MDU) medico-legal adviser Dr Kathryn Leask on how practices can effectively address complaints at an early stage
Dealing with a practice complaint can be time consuming and, depending on the context, distressing.
However, in the Medical Defence Union’s (MDU) experience, the time taken to provide a response will be well spent if the complainant’s concerns can be addressed at the first opportunity. Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - March 14, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: Angela Sharda Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Latest News Personal Practice Source Type: news
Sponsored feature: raising concerns about a colleague
Medical Defence Union (MDU) medico-legal adviser Dr Kathryn Leask explains the steps practice managers need to take when raising concerns about a colleague whose health may be affecting their work.
In the MDU’s experience having concerns about a colleague’s health or performance can put practice managers in a difficult position. While you may be concerned for the colleague’s wellbeing you also have an obligation to ensure their situation does not impact on patient safety. Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - February 20, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: Angela Sharda Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Latest News Personal Practice Source Type: news
Doctors warned to hide their families on social media to avoid abuse from patients
The Medical Defence Union says it receives ‘hundreds of calls’ each year from staff - and some have received 'disturbing' threats to their home address, email or mobile numbers. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - February 11, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Sponsored feature: patients behaving badly
In an ideal world, all patient interaction would be easy and we would get on well with everyone registered at our practice. However, this isn’t always the case and when practice staff encounter patients whose behaviour is difficult to deal with, it can be tricky to know how to respond as Dr Ellie Mein, medico-legal advisor at the Medical Defence Union (MDU), explains.Hide related content:
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Source: Management in Practice - January 23, 2019 Category: Practice Management Authors: Angela Sharda Tags: *** Editor ' s Pick Personal Practice Source Type: news
Medics told not to sell real human skeletons via online auction sites
The UK's Medical Defence Union, founded back in the 1880s, said that it's occasionally asked about how to appropriately deal with human remains. It said skeletons can not be sold on like other items. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - October 29, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Doctors 'significantly overinvestigated' for manslaughter, say medico-legal experts
The bar should be raised to ensure that doctors are only invesigated for gross negligence manslaughter (GNM) in cases that are the 'medical equivalent of driving down the wrong side of the motorway', the Medical Defence Union(MDU) has warned. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - March 27, 2018 Category: Primary Care Tags: Practice News Source Type: news
MDU stands by 50% fee cut and says existing indemnity model unaffordable
The Medical Defence Union (MDU) has defended its decision to halve fees and adopt a new GP indemnity model, warning that maintaining its existing scheme was simply unaffordable. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - October 18, 2017 Category: Primary Care Tags: Practice News Source Type: news
Half-price MDU indemnity deal could leave GPs facing long-term costs, DH warns
GPs who move to a cheaper indemnity deal offered by the Medical Defence Union (MDU) from 1 November could be forced to pay thousands of pounds for long-term 'run-off cover', guidance published by the DH suggests. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - October 18, 2017 Category: Primary Care Tags: Practice News Source Type: news
GPs urged to lobby MPs over indemnity crisis
Medical Defence Union asks GP members to write to their MPs to demand support on indemnity costs Related items fromOnMedica GPs to get £10m indemnity boost for cover during winter period Clinical negligence claims against hospitals almost double in a year GPs not to blame for increase in negligence claims Half of doctors practise differently after complaints Advice for doctors criticised online (Source: OnMedica Latest News)
Source: OnMedica Latest News - October 9, 2017 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
