Healthcare Records on Trial
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Healthcare Records on Trial – Learning Presentation
Complimentary Session: Learn how to produce professional records which will enhance your credibility as a witness.
Online
30 min
About this course
Are you fully aware of the implications of what you or your staff record?
This intensive one-day course is aimed at addressing some of the practical implications of healthcare records for medical, health and social care professionals. It will help you to produce professional records which will enhance your credibility as a witness.
Course syllabus
Objective of the Presentation: Encourage attendees to reflect on the methodologies of how to produce professional records which will enhance your credibility as a witness.
Key learning points:
- Accountability,
- Professional Regulation,
- Duty of care to patient,
- GDPR and data protection,
- Patient consent to record keeping,
- The importance of good record keeping,
- Evidence: fact v opinion,
- How good records can save you going to court,
- How to complete statements,
- Patient access to records,
- How your records stand up to scrutiny in legal proceedings,
- The process of discovery in litigation,
- How opposing lawyers look at your records,
- How to stand over your records in the witness box,
- The structure of the Courts, including the Coroners Court.
