Health records are essential to professional practice and quality healthcare. Records also provide crucial evidence of care provided. However, maintaining quality records is not easy when faced with competing demands, and their importance can be overlooked.
With our expert panel, this session will focus on the critical importance of keeping appropriate records and how they are your number one risk-mitigation tool.
From a medico-legal perspective, this webinar cover:
- The value of records in determining the strengths & weaknesses of a claim.
- Requests for records by patients/solicitors.
- How your records will be analysed.
Learning outcomes
At the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:
- Discuss professional obligations for medical record-keeping requirements for good clinical practice.
- Identify essential health record information that may be used to defend any claim.
- Reflect on current health record keeping practices and identify areas for improvement to minimise clinico-legal risk.
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