Equipment Breakdown and Maintenance
Professionals, in all different fields, rely on their equipment and tools of varying types to run their business. This equipment could be very specific to a field of work, such as an x-ray machine, or it could be very common and used by all, such as an air conditioner. Regardless of what it is, when equipment is no longer working as it should, this can significantly impact a business’ operations. Understanding Insurance Breakdown insurance is ...
Stay on the right side of Ahpra’s advertising requirements
While there are laws for advertising any business in Australia, The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (Ahpra) has specific requirements for anyone advertising a regulated health service. And these requirements apply equally to all types of health professionals regulated by Ahpra. These advertising requirements are set under Section 133 of the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law. Therefore, breaching an advertising requirement is a criminal offence for which prosecution and financial penalties can apply. For an ...
Record keeping requirements.
Clinical record keeping is unfortunately one of those dreaded risk management topics. Guild Insurance understands that it isn’t the most interesting topic for health practitioners to spend time thinking and talking about. However, it’s incredibly important, and Guild’s experience suggests many health practitioners would benefit from learning more about good record keeping. Clinical records and insurance claims Clinical records can impact insurance claims in two ways: Poor records which lack detail can lead to incorrect ...
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