Medical Protection Society

This editorial collaboration between Medscape UK and Medical Protection Society (MPS) aims to deliver medicolegal content to help healthcare professionals navigate the many challenges they face in their clinical practice. MPS membership provides the right to request expert advice and support on a variety of medicolegal issues, including clinical negligence claims, complaints, disciplinaries, GMC investigations, and criminal charges.

• Presenteeism: Doctors Are Pushing Their Mental Health Aside Better access to good quality mental wellbeing support is vital for the health of doctors and retention in the profession.
  Medical Protection Society, April 8, 2025
• Make AI Work for Clinicians The Medical Protection Society has outlined the next steps needed to make AI safer for clinicians and patients.
  Medical Protection Society, March 26, 2025
• Foot Surgery, a Pulmonary Embolism, and a Negligence Claim The Medical Protection Society says lessons can be learned from the case of a patient given an incorrect risk score for pulmonary embolism and what followed.
  Medical Protection Society, March 24, 2025
• Can Doctors Also Be Social Activists? How can doctors maintain a balance between their right to freedom of expression and patient or employer expectations of how healthcare professionals should behave?
  Medical Protection Society, January 13, 2025
• NHS Trusts Must Improve Disciplinary Procedures An MPS report found significant delays in processes, with detrimental impacts on mental health.
  Medical Protection Society, November 6, 2024
• SAS Doctors Face Legal Disadvantages in GMC Investigations SAS and locally employed doctors are twice as likely to face fitness-to-practise hearings without legal representation, leading to harsher sanctions.
  Medical Protection Society, October 16, 2024

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