Keeping our insured up to date with emerging clinical risks and our product news.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.