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Management of Risks & Practices in Healthcare, an Interesource
Group led initiative, is a project co-funded by the European Commission
under the Leonardo da Vinci Programme. MORPH, a transnational study,
examines risks in healthcare institutions focusing on the implementation
of best practice training. Interesource Group (Ireland) Limited,
project originator and coordinator have established a Europe-wide
consortium consisting of the Division of Legal Medicine, University
College Dublin, Ireland; the Department of Medical Physics, University
of Dundee, Scotland; Foundation for Promotion of Entrepreneurship (FPE),
Poland and the Health Care Association, Bulgaria.
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Recent figures released by the
Irish Department of Health & Children show that there is a
continuing increase in the cost of medical indemnity for medium to
high-risk medical practitioners. The total cost of all medical indemnity
to the Irish Exchequer in the year 2010 amounted to over 41 million
euro. According to the Department of Health & Children the reduction
of indemnity costs requires action to lessen the number of adverse
incidents which give rise to claims. The absence of risk management and
medico-legal protocols and procedures result in costly lawsuits which
stretch scarce resources and place a huge degree of stress on healthcare
professionals and patients alike. The term "risk management" has
emerged to describe a collection of policies, practices and procedures
which are designed to identify, quantify and reduce the risks which
healthcare institutions and individual practitioners face. |
MORPH aims to identify trends and practices in healthcare
institutions and increase awareness of risk management across Europe. In
order to equip practitioners and professionals involved in healthcare
with the necessary risk management skills, the project will produce an
educational tool for training that consists of reports and a collection
of essays, an interactive CDROM comprising of best practice video
interviews and a series of case studies. (c) 2011, aldrien
Friends:
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