Helping to improve clinical risk, reduce litigation risk and improve healthcare standards.

Helping Manage Clinical Risk, Reduce Litigation Risk and Improve Healthcare Standards

In addition to latest news on THEMIS, you can find a selection of our latest clinical risk alerts here.

We provide our policyholders with clinical risk alerts based on advanced claims intelligence provided by our Lead Clinical Partner, TMLEP. These are provided to help keep clinical practice reactive to emerging clinical risk trends, ensuring we can help create a safer clinical world.

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Reducing the Risk of Litigation When Providing Ultrasound Services Under an SLA or AQP Arrangement

It is vital private ultrasound providers have up-to-date, clear and definitive SLA agreements with GPs, ensuring the risk of litigation is minimised.

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The Importance of Rescheduling Cancelled Liver Cancer Screening Appointments

This case, from our lead clinical partner, TMLEP, relates to a patient’s HCC Surveillance Ultrasound being cancelled and was not rescheduled resulting in a late detection of HCC.

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Generally Consenting for Chronic Nerve Pain and/or Nerve Damage

In this clinical risk alert, our lead clinical partner, TMLEP highlights that Nerve damage is a typically rare, albeit recognised complication that can arise from a number of different surgical procedures.

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The Risk of Endocarditis in Patients With a History of Prosthetic Heart Valve

This clinical risk alert, from TMLEP, highlights Endocarditis as a rare and often insidious disease, widely known amongst medical professionals as being notoriously difficult to diagnose.

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The Importance of Fully Removing the Appendix During an Appendectomy

This clinical risk alert from THEMIS lead clinical partner, TMLEP highlights the importance of surgeons being confident in the location of the base of the appendix and leaving no more than a 0.5cm stump appendix after an appendectomy to reduce the risk of a stump appendicitis.

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The Importance of considering Compartment Syndrome as a possibility in patients.

This case arises from an alleged failure by the staff in A&E failing to recognise Compartment Syndrome and therefore delaying emergency surgery to alleviate the condition resulting in permanent damage to the patient’s lower leg and foot.

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Mr Charles Willis-Owen BM BCh MA (Hons Oxon) MFSEM (UK) FRCS (Tr & Orth), Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon Royal Bournemouth Hospital

Enhancing Risk Management for Policyholders

By offering policyholders complimentary access to the very latest healthcare analytics updates from TMLEP, policyholders are kept up to date with access to clinical risk alerts that may impact their practice. As a THEMIS policyholder, this keeps clinical practice responsive to emerging trends that could lead to claims.

Mr Charles Willis-Owen BM BCh MA (Hons Oxon) MFSEM (UK) FRCS (Tr & Orth), Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon Royal Bournemouth Hospital
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