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Press release 04/07/2013

Response to NHS England’s publication of mortality rates for individu...

Response to NHS England’s publication of mortality rates for individual hospital consultants

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Dr Stephanie Bown, MPS Director of Policy and Communications said, 'MPS strongly supports transparency in the NHS and believes that this is key to protecting and promoting public confidence in the medical profession.

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01/07/2013

Recording consent and consent forms

Recording consent and consent forms

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Apart from certain treatments carried out under the Mental Health Act and some forms of fertility treatment, there is no legal requirement to obtain written consent, but most health organisations have policies stipulating when written consent should be obtained. Employees are expected to be familiar with these and adhere to them.

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Press release 11/06/2013

MPS survey on Chief Inspector of Hospitals reveals doctors’ concerns

MPS survey on Chief Inspector of Hospitals reveals doctors’ concerns

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A survey of nearly 800 UK hospital doctors conducted by the Medical Protection Society (MPS) has revealed 55% see the Chief Inspector of Hospitals’ role as just another layer of bureaucracy that will achieve no real change.

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Press release 20/05/2013

'Patients at risk if out-of-hours review ignores GPs’ concerns', warn...

'Patients at risk if out-of-hours review ignores GPs’ concerns', warns MPS

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Commenting on the news that Jeremy Hunt wants to place responsibility for round-the-clock care back in the hands of GPs, Nick Clements, Head of Medical Services for the Medical Protection Society said, 'The fictional world of Doc Martin is a long way from the reality of modern practice. The village doctor working all hours is simply unsustainable in many surgeries, which are struggling to cope under huge pressures, exacerbated by increasingly bureaucratic processes that divert resources away from patient care.

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Press release 09/05/2013

87% of doctors think online medical records will raise patient expect...

87% of doctors think online medical records will raise patient expectations, MPS report reveals

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The Medical Protection Society (MPS) has launched a report on the views of doctors and the public on online medical records. One of the issues highlighted is the disparity between the services that patients expect they will receive through online access to their records and what doctors think is realistic in the immediate term.

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Factsheet 01/05/2013

Confidentiality – Disclosures without consent - Northern Ireland

Confidentiality – Disclosures without consent - Northern Ireland

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Certain circumstances can mean you are obliged to disclose information about a patient, even if you do not have their consent; under other circumstances, disclosure may be justifiable. This factsheet gives you further information about these circumstances.

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01/05/2013

Access to medical reports

Access to medical reports

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Doctors may, on occasion, receive a request from a patient’s employer for a medical report to be delivered directly to the HR department, without the patient seeing it. However, before any medical report can be provided, you must be satisfied that the patient has given valid consent to the release of the information.

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Articles and features 09/04/2013

Skin Lesion Photography

Skin Lesion Photography

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MPS statistics suggest that a case relating to the delayed diagnosis of melanoma is opened every two weeks. Dr Pawan Randev argues that skin lesion photography is a way of improving feedback on dermatology referrals

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Press release 08/04/2013

Eight in ten doctors are concerned online medical records will increa...

Eight in ten doctors are concerned online medical records will increase workload, MPS survey reveals

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A survey by the Medical Protection Society (MPS) reveals that 84% of doctors think that online records will mean spending more time explaining the contents of records to patients. Although doctors and the public agree the most important use of medical records is to give the doctor an overview of all the medical treatments a patient has received, there is a mismatch in expectations about how records should be written.

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