Medico-legal education
You may occasionally encounter scenarios where you question what’s the right thing to do. We're here to support you with clinical and legal challenges.
Updated telehealth guidelines
The new telehealth guidelines emphasise telehealth consultations should meet the same standards as care provided in a face-to-face consultation.
Treating friends, family or staff
You should avoid treating family members friends or staff whenever possible. This factsheet offers advice for managing these requests and highlights the issues.
Missed or delayed diagnosis
At times a diagnosis can be delayed or missed for many different reasons. Once this is identified the next steps in the process and patient care are very important. This factsheet outlines your responsibilities.
Doctor reprimanded over failure to seek help or participate in patient care
Doctors are expected to recognise and work within the limits of their competence and scope of practice and to consult and take advice from colleagues when appropriate. Failing to do so can lead to significant patient harm, as this case involving a locum VMO working in a regional hospital illustrates.
Claims and medico-legal queries – Medicare
Calls to Avant’s Medico-legal Advisory Service (MLAS) about Medicare have increased recent years, suggesting a growing concern about Medicare.
VMO’s Medicare billing
The escalating sequence of events illustrates the risks to clinical practice, professionalism and patient care that can occur when practitioners become isolated.
Medicare compliance
The Department of Health continues to focus on Medicare Benefits Scheme (MBS) compliance, which means that it is increasingly likely that your MBS practices will come under scrutiny at some stage.
Responding to a direct patient complaint
This factsheet explores the management of a patient complaint that comes to you or your practice directly.
What to do if you receive a complaint from Ahpra
In this 5-minute video Lauren Antonini, Solicitor at Avant, outlines what you should do if you receive a formal complaint and offers advice to help you prepare.
Moving into private practice
- A guide to starting, acquiring or buying into a medical practice
- Top five to help you start out in private practice
- Thriving not surviving as you move into private practice
Looking after your wellbeing
- Managing fatigue
- Suffering burnout
- Managing occupational stress
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