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Public Letter to DHSC, MHRA, HoC, NICE: Call for a ‘Medical Regulatory Agency’

Post date 29 August 2021
Categories In 2021, Compliance, News, NICE 2021, Policy Positions, Press Releases

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A call for change in the face of long-standing regulatory failure The following public communication from our Governance Board regards the opportunity for a new “Medical Regulatory Agency”, ready for the post-brexit and the machine learning digital eras. The letter also contains background pertaining to long-standing regulatory failure, unlawful medical norms, contra-scientific medical belief systems and…Continue readingPublic Letter to DHSC, MHRA, HoC, NICE: Call for a ‘Medical Regulatory Agency’

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Announcing our Committees and Working Groups

Post date 18 August 2021
Categories In News, Press Releases

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Today we announce the Doctors with M.E. Committees and Working Groups structures. These allow our Registrants to participate on ongoing or ad hoc bases, driven by their interests and events. Compliance, legal, policy and practice management professionals are fundamental to driving change. We have thus introduced Compliance and Policy Affiliate registration status, to ensure that all…Continue readingAnnouncing our Committees and Working Groups

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Rapid Response and Expert Comment: NICE Guideline Delay and Accommodation of Unlawfulness

Post date 17 August 2021
Categories In 2021, Compliance, News, NICE 2021, Opinion, Policy Positions, Press Releases

We are very disappointed to hear of the ‘pause’ in publication of the NICE ME/CFS Guideline, already delayed in April. Following the hard work of the Guideline Development Group, we received news of the further delay of guideline publication with both dismay and profound concern for practitioners, their organisations and patients. Continued delay or deviation…Continue readingRapid Response and Expert Comment: NICE Guideline Delay and Accommodation of Unlawfulness

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Expertise procurement risk and reputational risk – medical and legal

Post date 23 July 2021
Categories In Compliance

Care should be taken to reassess existing expertise sources in the field of post-viral disease and to distinguish between 1) the marketability or familiarity of expertise versus 2) disproportionate risk of divergence from legally sustainable standards. It is rare for institutionalised medical norms to exclude scientific consensus to the degree witnessed in this field. This…Continue readingExpertise procurement risk and reputational risk – medical and legal

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Compliance, medico-legal considerations and enforceable obligations

Post date 23 July 2021
Categories In Compliance

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Unmanaged post-viral disease liability, risk exposure and rising pandemic exposure (draft) Compliance obligations for professionals, operational and expertise risks in practice management, social care, occupational health intermediation, insurance underwriting, claims management and reinsurance Summary The role of habitualised unlawful clinical judgement and discrimination that leads to elevated probability of evidentiable malpractice is outlined. Obligations and…Continue readingCompliance, medico-legal considerations and enforceable obligations

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Freedom of Information Act risks – flawed clinical judgement, discrimination and education refusal

Post date 23 July 2021
Categories In Compliance

The Freedom of Information Act 2000 affords patients, litigants and the scientific community several routes to highlight policy, reveal shortcomings and to enforce lawful clinical and administrative decision-making. It must be noted that the low and/or prejudicial standards of communication and record keeping that are often normalised in this professional field (link) can be revealed…Continue readingFreedom of Information Act risks – flawed clinical judgement, discrimination and education refusal

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Obligation to procure ME/CFS medical education

Post date 23 July 2021
Categories In Compliance

Educational materials defined by legally demonstrable scientific consensus are of material legal consequence versus liability for clinical outcomes, breaches of duty of care and relevant statutory and policy discrimination frameworks discussed in this document. This lack of medical education is documented empirically, by the UK National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence and addressed by…Continue readingObligation to procure ME/CFS medical education

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Knowledge-gap risk and audit trails (examples plus research-market inefficiencies)

Post date 23 July 2021
Categories In Compliance

Liability-generation from elevated probability of unlawful clinical and administrative judgement does not only stem from practitioners’ incorrect beliefs regarding disease aetiology (causes) and pathology (symptoms). Practitioners also generate further excess risk from their knowledge gap versus formal ME/CFS and related diagnostic criteria, which offer 1) rigour and ease of diagnosis and 2) risky diagnostic audit…Continue readingKnowledge-gap risk and audit trails (examples plus research-market inefficiencies)