The Medical Protection New Zealand podcast

The role of Physician Associate (PA) has been added to the growing number of allied healthcare providers in New Zealand. The PA role has been intensely scrutinised in the UK following a number of high profile cases, resulting in a Government Inquiry. We discuss the report findings of the Leng report and its implications for New Zealand as our Medical Council deliberate on how to appropriately regulate Physician Associates here.

Privacy is nearly always complex and often difficult to understand. To bring clarity to common questions asked about privacy we are privileged to have Stephanie Gregor, the Manager for the Capability and Guidance area of the Privacy Commission come on this series of three podcasts.  We answer interesting questions such as who is a patient’s representative if they die intestate?  When can I withhold the name of a person who has provided unsolicited health information?  Can I look through any patient’s notes without consent if it’s for educational purposes?  We also discuss the upcoming amendment to the Privacy Act and many more topics.

Privacy is nearly always complex and often difficult to understand.  To bring clarity to common questions asked about privacy we are privileged to have Stephanie Gregor, the Manager for the Capability and Guidance area of the Privacy Commission come on this series of three podcasts.  We answer interesting questions such as who is a patient’s representative if they die intestate?  When can I withhold the name of a person who has provided unsolicited health information?  Can I look through any patient’s notes without consent if it’s for educational purposes?  We also discuss the upcoming amendment to the Privacy Act and many more topics.

Privacy is nearly always complex and often difficult to understand. To bring clarity to common questions asked about privacy we are privileged to have Stephanie Gregor, the Manager for the Capability and Guidance area of the Privacy Commission come on this series of three podcasts.  We answer interesting questions such as who is a patient’s representative if they die intestate?  When can I withhold the name of a person who has provided unsolicited health information?  Can I look through any patient’s notes without consent if it’s for educational purposes?  We also discuss the upcoming amendment to the Privacy Act and many more topics.

When doctors receive an HDC complaint about our clinical care, and expert opinion is always obtained.  How does the GP expert measure our care?  What are the most common errors GPs make?  We are privileged to interview Dr David Maplesden, HDC in-house GP expert, in this series of 3 podcasts.  Over the series David explains how he approaches the cases, his role and the common pitfalls that GPs make in the cases he sees including the interface between primary and secondary care, our responsibility to chase referrals, missed cancers, capacity assessment and much more.

When doctors receive an HDC complaint about our clinical care, and expert opinion is always obtained.  How does the GP expert measure our care?  What are the most common errors GPs make?  We are privileged to interview Dr David Maplesden, HDC in-house GP expert, in this series of 3 podcasts.  Over the series David explains how he approaches the cases, his role and the common pitfalls that GPs make in the cases he sees including the interface between primary and secondary care, our responsibility to chase referrals, missed cancers, capacity assessment and much more.

When doctors receive an HDC complaint about our clinical care, and expert opinion is always obtained.  How does the GP expert measure our care?  What are the most common errors GPs make?  We are privileged to interview Dr David Maplesden, HDC in-house GP expert, in this series of 3 podcasts.  Over the series David explains how he approaches the cases, his role and the common pitfalls that GPs make in the cases he sees including the interface between primary and secondary care, our responsibility to chase referrals, missed cancers, capacity assessment and much more.

What is the Council of Medical Colleges and what do they do?  What difference do they make?  We will answer these questions in this podcast.  We are privileged to interview Dr Samantha Murton, current President of the Council and incumbent President of the College of General Practitioners.

You are driving home after dinner with friends.  You are stopped at a checkpoint and find yourself over the limit when breath-tested.  What should you do?  What should you not do?  This scenario is not uncommon in NZ.  How about if the police want to interview you after a patient has complained that you examined them inappropriately?  Whilst uncommon, this certainly happens.  This podcast sets out advice for those caught in these stressful situations.

We are encouraged to discuss difficult cases and to review the cases where an unexpected poor outcome has taken place.  In the hospital setting Mortality and Morbidity meetings are very common.  If a complaint follows are the minutes of these meetings discoverable?  What about registrar reflections which are a requirement of specialty training? This podcast discusses these questions and how you can protect yourself.