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  1. ► Key practice challenges - 2020 and beyond

    Created on: 10/12/2020
    Learn about personal wellbeing, telehealth, opioid prescribing, and aged care.

  2. Open disclosure

    Created on: 08/12/2020 in Code of conduct and regulatory
    Equip yourself with effective tips on how to implement open disclosure frameworks in your practice

  3. Indemnity definitions made simpler

    Created on: 08/12/2020 in Advice and support General advice and support
    Understand your medical indemnity obligations

  4. Health practitioner’s mental health – an MDO’s perspective

    Created on: 08/12/2020 in Health and financial wellbeing
    Learn how to identify and support those around you who may be experiencing mental health challenges.

  5. ✔ Interview tips

    Created on: 08/12/2020 in Professionalism and ethics
    Equip yourself with effective tips to ace your next jobt interview.

  6. 🗒 My job/my career – how to deal with challenges

    Created on: 08/12/2020 in Professionalism and ethics
    Tips to look after yourself and where to seek assistance

  7. 🗒 Ethical negotiation of consent: Supporting decision-making in everyday practice

    Created on: 08/12/2020 in Professionalism and ethics
    As a healthcare practitioner, you may think of your role as one in which your main accountabilities are to assess an individual’s health and to deliver appropriate care interventions. However, after landmark clinico-legal disputes in Austra...

  8. 7.2% increase in notifications against practitioners - AHPRA Annual Report 2019-20

    Created on: 08/12/2020 in Code of conduct and regulatory
    There was a 7.2% increase in the number of notifications made against medical practitioners in the last year (5,745 vs 5,359) and a 4.7% increase in notifications for dental practitioners.   The most common types of notifications are complaint...

  9. Why should I insure my clinic?

    Created on: 08/12/2020 in Membership
    Although your individual MIPS membership includes indemnity insurance that can respond to your direct treatment of a patient, and supervision of others, here's why you also need to cover your practice

  10. Navigating the ‘fitness to drive’ assessment

    Created on: 08/12/2020 in Advice and support
    Guide for healthcare practitioners to assess an older patient’s fitness to drive with a brief outline of differing laws in each state.
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