Know Your Risks

Risk relates to more than just professional care. Managing your risks is about protecting your reputation and ultimately your ability to be a successful health care professional. Awareness can provide enormous opportunity and knowing your risks is the first step to ensuring that they are managed.

The aim of the following information is to help you understand what your risks are and how to manage them.

Basics matter ...

Guild's experience in assisting healthcare professionals to reduce risk, manage their compliance and defend claims, shows that best practice behaviours in daily processes (such as diagnostics, record keeping and patient communication) provide your best defence. The table below (Behavioural Risks) provides a quick 'refresher' on behaviours which will lower your risk of being the subject of claims or complaints.

Know your risks

There are distinct behaviours that can either contribute to or minimise your risk. To follow are a number of specific behavioural indicator areas   Your response to the questions in this table will provide some guidance with regard to your level of exposure at the practice.