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The Medical Protection podcast discusses key and current medicolegal risks and issues affecting clinicians across Aotearoa New Zealand. Our team of Medicolegal Consultants will talk about a range of topics and provide helpful advice and guidance on changes to the medicolegal landscape and how to steer clear of any medicolegal risks. These podcasts will help you to keep yourself and your patients safe, providing them with the best medical care possible. Our first series focuses on explaining and demystifying the ways that health meets the law. Our first podcast in this series will explain the benefits of membership with Medical Protection. The remainder of the series will explore the different avenues complaints may find their way to you and how to navigate each process.

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November 9, 202630 min

Reducing Risk Episode 90 - Stakeholder series: What might happen if I notify myself to Medical Council’s Health Committee? (Part 2)

We are privileged to have Professor Ron Paterson, current chair of the Health Committee, previous Health and Disability Commissioner and Ombudsman joins us for this podcast. Most doctors feel apprehensive about any contact with the Medical Council. This includes when illness impacts their ability to care for patients. Professor Paterson discusses when you ought to notify the Health Committee, the process once you do and why it’s not as difficult as you might think.

October 26, 202646 min

Reducing Risk - Episode 89 - Stakeholder series: What might happen if I notify myself to Medical Council’s Health Committee? (Part 1)

October 11, 202643 min

Reducing Risk - Episode 88 - Cultural Safety: The HDC’s approach to allegations of racism

Cultural safety is an essential part of care. Complaints about poor attention to the cultural needs of our patients seem to be increasing. When patients come into the hospital or clinic there are ways we can help to ensure that the care we provide, even in the acute situation, provides for each patient’s cultural needs. This podcast explores learnings from several HDC cases and provides you with practical tips to help prevent complaint.

September 27, 202650 min

Reducing Risk - Episode 87 - Can I sign a death certificate if I’m not sure of the cause of death?

Dr Garry Clearwater is the Chief Medical Advisor to the Coroner. He is also an ED Consultant, Cremation Referee and previous GP. Garry demystifies how to fill in death certificates, including what to do when we aren’t certain of the cause of death. We also discuss the recent change in the Burial and Cremation Act where we may not need to view the body after death.

September 13, 20261 hr 0 min

Reducing Risk - Episode 86 - Unexpected death in the community

Unexpected death in the community: What’s so urgent about a death cert at 2am? Many of us have experienced being woken up in the middle of the night by the police wanting us to sign a death certificate for one of our patients. Why do the Police do this? What is their role when there is an unexpected death in the community? How can we work together, and not in conflict? Detective Inspector Felicity Cato is the Coronial Investigations Manager in the National Criminal Investigations Group. She comes to explain the role of the police in this situation and how we can more easily work together.

September 6, 2026Episode 742 min

Reducing Risk - Episode 85 - House Officer Series - Patient harm following a communication fail (Episode 7)

In this HDC case, a patient is admitted to ED with abdominal pain. Communication issues between ED, General Surgery and General Medicine leads to patient deterioration. We explore the importance of good communication between clinicians, good documentation and closing the loop

August 30, 2026Episode 447 min

Reducing Risk - Episode 84 - Wellbeing episode 4: Tips to a sustainable professional life

Our work life spans many decades. How do we sustain a long career? In this podcast we discuss this question with our guest speaker Dr Heidi Baker, who is a Paediatrician, Emergency Specialist, professional supervisor & coach.

August 24, 2026Episode 642 min

Reducing Risk - Episode 83 - House Officer Series - Do you know what you don’t know? (Episode 6)

You are on call and a patient comes in afterhours for anti-thrombolysis following a stroke. There is confusion about the availability of alteplase in the hospital and you’ve never prescribed this before, in fact is there even a protocol? Where do you start? We discuss learnings from this HDC case where the HO made critical errors which led to the death of the patient.

August 17, 202642 min

Reducing Risk - Episode 82 - Wellbeing episode 3: Burnout and communication under pressure

In this episode we explore what burnout looks like in the senior clinician and how it affects communication. Dr Ashwina Rao, an anaesthetist and trainer in communication for doctors returns to discuss strategies to maintain good communication to minimise patient and clinician risk.

August 10, 2026Episode 538 min

Reducing Risk - Episode 81 - House Officer series - Burnout and imposter syndrome (Episode 5)

Burnout and imposter syndrome is very common among junior doctors, but this doesn’t have to be you. This podcast looks at the symptoms and strategies to build your resilience in the workplace so that you can thrive.