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Current
Issues
which are relevant to GPs on the Mornington Peninsula.
Listed below are a number of links
to information that is topical at the moment. These links will be
updated regularly when new information or topics become current.
Avian
Influenza
see avian influenza page
Clinical
Risk Management
In response to the medical indemnity crisis and rising medical indemnity
subscriptions GPs have asked by insurers to submit clinical risk
management plans.
Risk management to many general practitioners is a new concept. It is
the term applied to the logical and systematic method of establishing
the context, evaluating, analysing, evaluating, treating, monitoring and
communicating risks associated with any activity that will enable
organisations to minimise loses and maximise opportunities. (AS/NZS
4360:1999) To
the general practitioner it is about minimising the possibility of a
complaint or legal action by having in place and using a variety of
systems and processes.
The risk
management principles are: -
- Identify all possible
important risks using a risk management process
- Ensure risk management
becomes a day to day activity in the practice
- Ensure staff know
about and use policies and procedures necessary to minimise and
manage risk
- Ensure employees are
aware of risks and how to manage them
- Assign accountability
for risk
- Monitor risk profile
and implement a continuous improvement approach to risk management
GPs interested in further
information about risk management can find information at: -
Medical Defence
Association of Victoria
http://www.mdav.org/risk/index.html
PowerPoint presentation
to GPs by Dr Jonathon Burdon from MDAV
Medical
Indemnity Protection Society
www.mips.com.au
Risk Management: A
Standards Australia Portal
http://www.riskmanagement.com.au/
The Australasian
Institute of Risk Management
http://www.airm.org.au/
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