Episodes
83
Latest episode
Jun 2026
Language
EN
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.
Join us as we continue our discussion with Health and Disability Commissioner Morag McDowell.In part two of this series, we explore the new approach to earlier complaint resolution through the Agreed Breach process, the role of Significant Adverse Event reviews in HDC decisions, and how different agencies and regulators interact in the complaints process.
Join us as we discuss key issues with Health and Disability Commissioner Morag McDowell.In part one of this two-part series, we explore current trends in the health system that are affecting care, how the HDC approaches expert opinion, and the growing role of telehealth.
Welcome to two episodes where we discuss the use of social media by clinicians and health providers in NZ.This second episode examines the risks clinicians face when posting publicly on social media, including accuracy and balance requirements under the Medical Council’s advertising statement and the ongoing duty to maintain professional standards online.It outlines how casual comments, criticisms of other professions or misleading promotional statements can trigger complaints, and describes the Council’s process when online conduct is reviewed.It also considers how clinicians should manage patient posts, defamation concerns and personal online presence while maintaining privacy, professionalism and legal compliance.
In part one of this two-part series, we examine how clinicians and health providers in New Zealand use social media, and the medicolegal risks that can arise when seeking clinical advice or discussing workplace issues on platforms that are not secure or private.The episode explores how identifiable patient information may be inadvertently disclosed, how this can lead to breaches of the Health Information Privacy Code, and how those breaches may trigger employer action or Medical Council review. It also outlines safer ways to seek clinical guidance and highlights prudent approaches to departmental messaging that protect confidentiality and meet legal obligations.
This is a new Principle added to the Privacy Act which requires clinicians to notify patients whenever you receive information that has not been collected directly from the patient. On first glance this looks very onerous. Stephanie Gregor, Manager – Capability and Guidance at the Privacy Commissioner’s Office joins us to explain how to incorporate this new principle into practice without being buried with admin.
This episode examines day-of-surgery consent in Aotearoa New Zealand for elective planned surgery, with a focus on recent Health and Disability Commissioner findings highlighting the risks when key information is first provided on the day of an operation.It explores how timing, environment, and communication standards under the Code must support genuine choice, particularly when surgical plans, techniques, or team roles change.The episode aims to help clinicians manage these obligations collaboratively while maintaining safe and lawful consent processes.
There are some medications that come up time and again when we consider prescribing errors where serious harm has been done to a patient.The list includes lithium, clozapine, anti-inflammatories and anticoagulants, but one other medication that should always make us take extra special care when prescribing, is methotrexate.This podcast considers a case where methotrexate prescribing led to a patient’s admission to ICU, but there have been New Zealand cases in the past where patients have died.In this podcast we use methotrexate as an example of how you can make your prescribing safer.
It can be confusing as to which indemnifier to choose. Especially when insurance companies are not explicit concerning what they do not cover.Fortunately, Medical Protection is not an insurance product, we are a mutual owned by our members so provide wider cover.A recent start up indemnity insurer has disseminated slanted information about Medical Protection. This podcast sets the record straight and answers the question of why choose Medical Protection.
In this episode we look at the use of standing orders and the obligations that signing a standing order form creates for the clinician and what steps we have to take to ensure we are fulfilling the requirements of the regulations.
In modern practice we all frequently work in health care teams where other team members, who do not have prescribing rights, ask us to write scripts for patients they are seeing.Sometimes this is for patients we have seen in the past, but sometimes it may be for a patient we don’t even know.In this podcast we consider the medicolegal risks of prescribing when you yourself are not seeing the patient...• How can you ensure the patient has been properly informed about possible side effects?• Will you be held responsible if something goes wrong?• Am I even allowed to write a script for a patient I haven’t seen?• Has the Medical Council statement on Good prescribing managed to stay up to date with how modern teams work with allied health professionals often seeing patients, either in person or on telehealth, and employers then expecting doctors to prescribe for those patients?
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