Updated Articles

  1. Testamentary Capacity

    Last Updated: 17/03/2025 in Insight Articles Medical Records and Reports
    MIPS members are often asked by patients, their solicitors, or their family to assess or attest to a patient’s testamentary capacity either before or after the patient’s death. This can be complex and fraught with challenges. This article sets out...

  2. Guidelines for Completing a Death Certificate: What Practitioners Need to Know

    Last Updated: 14/03/2025
    At some point in a practitioner’s career, it is likely that you will receive a request to complete a death certificate. This is particularly the case with general practitioners, practitioners who operate at nursing homes and geriatricians. A death...

  3. Outcome appraisal of death certification and the coronial process - Post webinar activity

    Last Updated: 13/03/2025 in CPD Education
    1  hour Reviewing Performance  + 3 hours Measuring Outcomes   Online Form - Webinar: Outcome appraisal of death certification and the coronial process - Post Webinar Activity ...

  4. Your membership classification – is it right for your practice?

    Last Updated: 13/03/2025
    Your MIPS’ membership renewal invitation will be sent in May 2025.  Ahead of this you need to check your classification is correct and accurately reflects the healthcare you provide.   This will ensure the accuracy of your indemnity insurance d...

  5. Improving practice through coronial insights - Pre webinar activity

    Last Updated: 13/03/2025 in CPD Education
    0.5-hour  Educational Activity + 1.5 - hours Reviewing Performance   This  reviewing performance activity invites you to  explore  the role of the  coronial system in investigating deaths and reflect on your understanding  o...

  6. Beyond the Fine Print – Contractual Considerations for Medical and Dental Practitioners

    Last Updated: 12/03/2025 in CPD Education Webinars
    Join us for an insightful discussion on employment and contractor agreements in healthcare. Using real-life examples and case scenarios, our speakers will explain key contractual terms, highlight common challenges, and share strategies to help you p...

  7. Post-webinar activity: Reflecting on your duty of care and the underpinning, legal, ethical and regulatory principles

    Last Updated: 05/03/2025 in CPD Education Webinars
    1-hour Reviewing Performance Activity Part A - Reading Section Doctors are legally obliged to provide their patients with care and treatment that reaches a reasonable standard of care and one which would be seen to be competent and...

  8. Navigating Employment Contracts: a reviewing performance activity for healthcare practitioners - Pre Webinar Activity

    Last Updated: 27/02/2025 in CPD Education
    0.5 hours Educational Activity + 1.5 hours Reviewing Performance Part A – Critical reading section (0.5 hours Educational Activity) From an evidence-based perspective, critical reading is an instructional tool that develops healthcare pr...

  9. AI Scribes Fact Sheet

    Last Updated: 25/02/2025 in CPD Education
    How to use this fact sheet  If you intend to use an AI scribe in your practice, this information will help you understand – and comply – with important privacy and medico-legal obligations. Your decision to use an AI scribe should be based on your...

  10. NSW Healthcare Liability Act 2001 & Insurance Regulation Order 2006

    Last Updated: 20/02/2025 in Medico-Legal News Legal & Regulatory
    Insurance Regulation Order 2006  Part 2 – Decisions concerning individual cover Division 1  1 Preliminary  For the purposes of this Part a refusal to provide approved insurance includes:  not accepting an offer to...
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