In addition to latest news on THEMIS, you can find a selection of our latest clinical risk alerts based on our claims intelligence. These are provided to help keep clinical practice reactive to emerging clinical risk trends, ensuring we can help create a safer clinical world.
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.
The claim relates to the alleged failure to appropriately advise the Claimant of the effects of radiotherapy treatment, resulting in a secondary infection and scarring.
This case, from TMLEP, arises from an alleged failure to refer a diabetic patient to a multidisciplinary team despite presenting with severe foot deformity and swelling, resulting in below-knee amputation.
This case, from our clinical partner, TMLEP, arises from an alleged failure to disclose all the material facts to the Patient prior to performing ankle surgery on a child by an orthopaedic surgeon and to not advising physiotherapy in the first instance.
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.