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Your Risks

Professional

Your professional reputation can hinge on the quality of your interaction with those that seek your professional care.  

Communication:

  • in the period prior to the  commencement of care, 
  • in obtaining consent to treat, 
  • and in recording the interaction
are all crucial, not only in providing quality professional care to patients, but also in being able to evidence that care.
 

Support & Communication

Guild Insurance recommends a proactive approach to risk management. Our customer support is designed to reduce risk and to achieve peace of mind for you.

Read more: Support & Communication

 

Consent

Communication and documentation are the key factors in achieving a level of consent that is informed. The risks & the benefits of your care needs to be made clear- and in terms that will make sense to the individual patient.

Read more: Consent

   

Pre Care

Health professionals have on occasion walked into, or contributed to a problem by not at first identifying exactly who and what they are treating. Discovery, and evidence of the result, is vital before the intended treatment path is applied.

Read more: Pre Care

 

Public Practice

Listed below are four issues that warrant consideration from a risk management perspective by those healthcare professionals who are involved in public practice. Consider each in the context of your professional reputation and the need to protect it.

Read more: Public Practice

   

Records

As a health care provider your records are at the very core of your on going patient care and evidence of care.

Read more: Records

   
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