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01 July 2024
Practitioner wellbeing: limiting the impact of notifications
At Avant, we regularly see the significant impact that complaints from patients can have on a medical practitioner. Doctors want to do the best for their patients and receiving a complaint can be confronting and distressing, as well as cause anxiety about loss of reputation, income or career.
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01 July 2024
Member profile: Improving patient outcomes with better care models
Professor Neil Spratt is a clinical neurologist and researcher whose work aims to improve treatment and outcomes for stroke patients.
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25 June 2024
Regulator clamps down on RTPM notifications
A recent spike in regulatory action targeting doctors who fail to check Real Time Prescription Monitoring (RTPM) systems suggests that regulators are intensifying their scrutiny of RTPM compliance.
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20 June 2024
GP breached patient privacy by disclosing information to police without a warrant
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05 June 2024
Consequences of injudicious texting
Doctors should be aware that text messages to colleagues or others can be considered part of a patient's records.
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26 May 2024
Keeping calm: how to manage confronting situations
Tips for medical staff and managers on how to manage confrontational situations with patients, including de-escalation techniques and setting boundaries.
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09 May 2024
Dealing with a regulatory complaint
Receiving a regulatory complaint is confronting and stressful. In this factsheet we explore the process and your response.
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07 May 2024
Prescribing principles: Part three – An update
In this medico-legal webinar, Avant experts, take you through a prescribing scenario with a series of cascading events that result in serious consequences. The scenario helps highlight important considerations when a friend or family member needs medication and asks you for a prescription. Our experts discuss: issues associated with treating family or friends prescribing drugs of dependence need for authorities real time prescription monitoring. Avant experts will also detail the consequences from the cases so you can understand how the regulators viewed such situations.