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Advisory
There may be a time in your professional career when you have to face a medico-legal or ethical problem. If such a situation should arise, our team of medico-legal advisers are here to provide specialist advice and assistance.
No defence provider in the UK has as many doctors providing specialist advice and assistance to members 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.
We can help you with a range of situations such as:
- Medico-legal and ethical advice about issues arising from patient care such as confidentiality and consent.
- Assistance in dealing with complaints
- Inquests
- Adverse incident inquiries
- Disciplinary proceedings
- Proceedings of registration bodies like the GMC in respect of professional performance, conduct or health
- Criminal investigations into clinical care that you have provided
