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- Doctors need insurance for new mental capacity assesments warn MDU - 11 November 2008
Doctors who assess the mental capacity of mental health patients must have insurance against any liabilities that may arise, under new legislation which has just come into force. The MDU, says the regulations mean that doctors who are reliant on discretionary indemnity will not be eligible to carry out these assessments.
- Learn and share lessons from complaints says MDU - 10 October 2008
As the National Audit Office publishes its report on complaints handling today, highlighting a lack of learning from complaints, the MDU, the UK’s largest provider of insurance indemnity to doctors, stresses the importance of setting up a system to learn from significant events, including complaints, and sharing this knowledge with others.
- UK out in the cold on insurance question says MDU - 2 October 2008
The Medical Defence Union, the UK’s leading medical defence organisation, today warned that the UK was in danger of being one of the last countries in the EU to persist with an outdated system of indemnifying doctors which risks leaving patients uncompensated.
- MDU continues "doctors for doctors" tradition with new Chief Executive - 16 September 2008
The MDU, the UK's first and largest medical defence organisation for doctors, today announced that it has appointed Dr Christine Tomkins as its new Chief Executive. She will take over from present Chief Executive Dr Michael Saunders after his planned retirement from the MDU Board at the end of April 2009.
- MDU helps doctors meet professional expectations - 26 August 2008
The Medical Defence Union has announced a new addition to its educational programme, the MDU Professionalism in Medicine & Healthcare Workshop. Targeting hospital doctors and those in general practice, the workshop focuses on the nature of professionalism and how it applies to daily clinical practice.
- MDU advice line the first call for members - 14 August 2008
Disclosing information about a child to an estranged parent and a patient refusing treatment following a paracetamol overdose were among the 25,000 calls to the MDU 24-hour advice line last year, revealed in the MDU’s Annual Report and Accounts 2007* published today.
- MDU highlights medico–legal risks of expert witness work - 25 July 2008
The Medical Defence Union (MDU), the UK’s leading medical defence organisation, has welcomed newly-published guidance from the GMC, Acting as an Expert Witness, which sets out the role and duties of doctors who act as expert witnesses.
- MDU says revalidation must be fair and evidence–based - 24 July 2008
Following the publication of the Chief Medical Officer’s (CMO) Report, Medical Revalidation – Principles and Next Steps, today the MDU welcomes the plans for robust and evidence based assessments of doctors and will work on behalf of our members to ensure that revalidation delivers this.
- Doctors to the rescue ... again and again - 2 July 2008
Asthma attacks, heart attacks, fainting, broken bones and car accident injuries are just some of the problems which have confronted doctors who have stepped in to help a member of the public outside while off-duty according to a survey of Medical Defence Union (MDU) members.
- MDU communications skills workshops for doctors - 26 June 2008
The Medical Defence Union has announced that a limited number of places are remaining for its upcoming communications skills workshops for doctors taking place at its head office in London.
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