Private doctors are only covered if the initial assessment was conducted in a multidisciplinary hospital clinic. So if a AUSPATH/TransHub listed GP or another type of community specialist starts the prescribing, none of that patient's future doctors would be indemnified by MDA.
This has had significant ripples in the medical community, practitioners are scrambling and afraid for their own wellbeing, I do hope this translates to patient wellbeing.
It seems the the more recent Family Legal Paper was presented to the medical indemnity organisations and may have had an impact in this 1st decision. I hope that other's follow suit. If other indemnifiers don't adopt a similar stance, they will have to wear the long term risk of community 'affirming' doctors who change ships.
Private doctors are only covered if the initial assessment was conducted in a multidisciplinary hospital clinic. So if a AUSPATH/TransHub listed GP or another type of community specialist starts the prescribing, none of that patient's future doctors would be indemnified by MDA.
This has had significant ripples in the medical community, practitioners are scrambling and afraid for their own wellbeing, I do hope this translates to patient wellbeing.
It seems the the more recent Family Legal Paper was presented to the medical indemnity organisations and may have had an impact in this 1st decision. I hope that other's follow suit. If other indemnifiers don't adopt a similar stance, they will have to wear the long term risk of community 'affirming' doctors who change ships.
Dear GP, I'd like to talk to you about this in confidence. Could you please call me on 0424 263 733.
thanks, BL