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• Ending the treating relationship

  As a health professional, your focus is on being there for your patients and providing the best healthcare possible to meet their needs. However, there’ll be times when the treating relationship isn’t effective or appropriate and you wish to end it. Guild Insurance regularly receives queries about how to do this professionally while keeping patient care a core focus. Possible scenarios There’ll be occasions where you realise that the treatment you’re able to provide, according ...
• Are you sure your professional indemnity insurance is current?

  While making your way through emails one evening, you come across one from Ahpra (Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency). It informs you that they’ve received a notification about you from one of your patients, alleging your treatment has caused harm. You’re shocked and confused; this has never happened to you before. You immediately notify Guild Insurance, knowing they’re there to support you during moments like this. However, the situation becomes more concerning when Guild informs ...

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• Importance of Informed Consent

  All health practitioners would be well aware of their requirements to obtain informed consent from their patients before assessment or treatment takes place. However, Guild Insurance’s vast experience in managing claims made against health practitioners has highlighted that many don’t meet all their informed consent requirements. What is Informed Consent? Ahpra have outlined a practitioner’s informed consent requirements in their various Codes of conduct, and these can be found at www.ahpra.gov.au/Resources/Code-of-conduct. Ahpra define informed ...
• Why has my chiropractor touched me there?

  Guild Insurance has seen a gradual increase in the number of allegations against chiropractors where the patient claims the chiropractor has behaved in a sexually inappropriate manner during treatment. These claims may involve allegations regarding the way the chiropractor has touched them, or they may relate to what the chiropractor has said during the consultation. These are incredibly serious allegations that cause a great deal of stress for both the chiropractor and the patient. Case ...