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The clinico-legal risk of administering vaccines
9 Feb 2021
Over the last decade, Australia has successfully achieved control of several vaccine preventable diseases with high routine vaccination coverage.1 There has been significant investment in the provisio ...
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Chairman's and CEO's report
29 Nov 2020
To the Members of Medical Indemnity Protection Society Ltd (MIPS): 2019/20 was a challenging and uncertain year for MIPS, MIPS members and the entire community as the world has grappled with the impa ...
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PSR orders repayment of over $21M to Medicare
23 Nov 2020
The Professional Services Review 2019-20 Annual Report iterated the seriousness of any healthcare practitioner being referred to the authority for their Medicare billing. Of the 96 cases reviewed and ...
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Ethical negotiation of consent
23 Nov 2020
As a healthcare practitioner, you may think of your role as one in which your main accountabilities are to assess an individual’s health and to deliver appropriate care interventions.
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AHPRA Annual Report 2019-2020
19 Nov 2020
The most common types of complaints against medical and dental healthcare practitioners were regarding clinical care with the former registering 54.2% and the latter 62.0% of their respective practiti ...
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Why should I insure my clinic
18 Nov 2020
Practice indemnity (or medical/dental malpractice insurance) should be a part of any business risk management strategy to protect what you have worked so hard to build.
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Navigating fitness to drive assessment
18 Nov 2020
The complexities of assessing an older patient’s fitness to drive coupled with laws which differ across the states and territories make this a challenging task for healthcare practitioners.
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22% of all cyber security breaches within healthcare
18 Nov 2020
Once an individual’s health information is breached it can be used for a variety of crimes from identity theft to medical fraud. An individual’s health information is valued at a significantly higher ...
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Three years on from AHPRA’s chaperone review
18 Nov 2020
Among other things, the Chaperone Report recommended that the use of mandated chaperones as an interim restriction in response to allegations of sexual misconduct be abandoned and replaced by other im ...
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IMEs - Tips for improved health assessments
17 Nov 2020
Injuries and illness are significant public health concerns. An assessment by a healthcare practitioner is often required when individuals make a claim on a variety of insurance policies covering item ...
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