Professional Responsibility and Accountability (CSNO180507)

AvailabilityCourse has taken place
SubjectPractice Management
DescriptionAll-day course combining presentations with small group work. At the end of the course, delegates should have a firm grasp of their ethical, professional, and legal responsibilities to patients in the context of NHS/private general dental practice, and the ways in which they may be called to account if it is considered their professional performance in any area has fallen short of the standard of a reasonable and responsible GDP. Key to the course will be practical problem-solving using the types of complaints, claims and disciplinary actions commonly faced by members of the DDU
VenueKettering General Hospital, Kettering - Oxfordshire  View details
Date & timeFriday 18 May 2007, 09:00 to 17:00
LecturerMigration  View details
Target audience

Recommended to all

Development outcomeNo development outcome
Course styleLecture
Core topicNo core topic
CPD hours6:00
Cost£15.00
Aims
  1. Principles of clinical governance and risk management. The future - revalidation, one register for everything
  2. Clinical governance requirements in the NHS GDS
  3. Professional responsibilities and obligations - principles of a profession and professional ethics - responsibilities to patients and other members of the dental team - GDC requirements, including raising concerns
  4. Professional accountability - claims for negligence - what is negligence, what standards are required, clinical negligence preaction protocol and conditional fee arrangements, current trends - complaints - what are patients seeking when they complain, NHS and GDC requirements, GDC private complaints scheme, essentials of successful complaint resolution, small group work (analysis of a letter of complaint and drafting a response)
  5. GDC Fitness to Practise Procedures - Conduct, Health , Performance. The future - revalidation, one register for everything