All Episodes

Reducing Risk - New Privacy principle IPP3A: What is it and are you ready for 1 May 2026?

Reducing Risk - Can I safely consent on the day of surgery?

Safe Prescribing Episode 5: Dangerous Drugs – Focus on methotrexate

Why Choose Medical Protection

Safe Prescribing Episode 4: Standing Orders

Safe Prescribing Episode 3: Prescribing by Proxy - when care is shared

Safe Prescribing Episode 2: Prescribing by telehealth and narrow-scope clinics

Safe Prescribing Episode 1: 12-Month Prescriptions

Reducing Risk - Documentation where court proceedings are likely

Reducing Risk - Tips for the witness box and providing an expert opinion

Reducing Risk - Impact of complaints - Part 3

Reducing Risk - Impact of complaints - Part 2

Reducing Risk - Impact of complaints - Part 1

Reducing Risk - Physician Associates in New Zealand: Lessons from the UK

Reducing Risk - Stakeholder Series: Office of the Privacy Commissioner - Part 3

Reducing Risk - Stakeholder Series: Office of the Privacy Commissioner - Part 2

Reducing Risk - Stakeholder Series: Office of the Privacy Commissioner - Part 1

Reducing Risk - Stakeholder Series: Focus on the HDC in Primary Care - Part 3

Reducing Risk - Stakeholder Series: Focus on the HDC in Primary Care - Part 2

Reducing Risk - Stakeholder Series: Focus on the HDC in Primary Care - Part 1

Reducing Risk - Stakeholder Series: The Council of Medical Colleges

Reducing Risk - What should I do if I have been charged with Drunk in charge of a vehicle (or worse)?

Reducing Risk - Is it OK to talk? Protected quality assurance activities

Reducing Risk - Do I need patient consent to look for teaching cases? When I have a complaint can I look forward in the notes?

Reducing Risk - The new Medical Council Statement on Treating yourself and those close to you: what this means for doctors

Reducing Risk - HDC case files - Missing a pulmonary embolism, it’s easier than you think

Reducing Risk - HDC case files - Medication Errors in Primary and Secondary Care

Reducing Risk - HDC case files - Missed MI: Communication, students and resource constraint

Reducing Risk - Episode 43 - Safe provision of care during industrial action

Reducing Risk - Episode 42 - Do I still have to be a Good Samaritan when I am overseas?

Reducing Risk - Episode 41 - Do I have to be a Good Samaritan? What are my risks and obligations?

Reducing Risk - Episode 40 - Is the truth important? Fairness, the HDC and capacity assessments

Reducing Risk - Episode 39 - Must we comply with patient requests for clinicians based on race, gender or role? Part Two

Reducing Risk - Episode 38 - Must we comply with patient requests for clinicians based on race, gender or role? Part One

Reducing Risk - Episode 37 - Safe supervision of non-doctors and using standing orders

Reducing Risk - Episode 36 - Preventing Burnout: what you as an individual can do

Reducing Risk - Episode 35 - Preventing Burnout: What organisations can do

Reducing Risk - Episode 34 - Tackling toxic workplaces: part 2 - Dealing with bullying and harassment

Reducing Risk - Episode 33 - Tackling toxic workplaces: part 1 - Dealing with a difficult colleague

Reducing Risk - Episode 32 - Top tips for House Officers

Reducing Risk - Episode 31 - What is considered unprofessional behaviour?

Reducing Risk - Episode 30 - Medical Council’s views on cosmetic procedures

Reducing Risk - Episode 29 - Supervising other doctors: Guidance and what to do when things go pear-shaped

Reducing Risk - Episode 28 - Do I have a commercial conflict of interest? How to avoid complaint

Reducing Risk - Episode 27 - Get out of my consultation room! Ending the professional relationship safely

Reducing Risk - Episode 24 - Being asked to do more with less: Reducing your risk in Secondary Care

Reducing Risk - Episode 26 - ‘I am the Best’. What you can and can’t say about the services you provide

Reducing Risk - Episode 25 - Being asked to do more with less: from the HDC case files

Reducing Risk - Episode 24 - Being asked to do more with less: Reducing your risk in Primary Care

Reducing Risk - Episode 23 - AI in healthcare: what’s so risky about that? - Part two

Reducing Risk - Episode 22 - AI in healthcare: what’s so risky about that? - Part one

Reducing Risk - Episode 21 - Can I accept a large gift from my patient? Where are the Professional boundaries?

Reducing Risk - Episode 20 - Providing care to yourself and those close to you. What’s so wrong with that?

Reducing Risk - Episode 19 - Good prescribing. The prescriber’s pen is mightier than the sword..

Reducing Risk - Episode 18 - Sorry seems to be the hardest word. Disclosure of harm following an adverse event.

Reducing Risk - Episode 17 - Sexual boundaries and how to keep within them

Reducing Risk - Episode 16 - Your colleague has done what?! When you have concerns about health, conduct or competence

Reducing Risk - Episode 15 - Driving Drugged: The clinician’s guide to the Land Transport (Drug Driving) Amendment Act 2022

Reducing Risk - Episode 14 - Vicarious liability

Reducing Risk - Episode 13 - Privacy: Disclosure of health information in psychiatry, when to disclose without consent

Reducing Risk - Episode 12 - Privacy: Police and Government Agency requests

Reducing Risk – Episode 11 – Children’s notes – who has the rights to access?

Reducing Risk – Episode 10 – Privacy: Unsolicited 3rd party information

Reducing Risk – Episode 9 – Privacy: How to deal with a major data breach

Reducing Risk – Episode 8 – Consent: Treating the confused patient

Reducing Risk – Episode 7 – Consent: Withdrawal of consent/refusal of treatment – where documentation is key

Reducing Risk – Episode 6 – Consent: How detailed and how specific do you need to be?

Reducing Risk – Episode 5 – Consent: Urgency but no consent

Reducing Risk – Episode 4 – Consent: The test of capacity and EPA

Reducing Risk – Episode 3 – Consent: Are your clinical notes helping or harming you?

Reducing Risk – Episode 2 – Consent for every little thing?

Reducing Risk – Episode 1 – Medical Certification

Ep. 8: What to expect when the Coroner takes jurisdiction

Ep. 7: The anatomy of a privacy complaint. Will money change hands?

Ep. 6: What are your risks with ACC Treatment Injury claims?

Ep. 5: What to expect when you receive a notification from the Medical Council of New Zealand (Part 2)

Ep. 4: What to expect when you receive a notification from the Medical Council of New Zealand (Part 1)

Ep. 3: What to expect when you receive an HDC complaint

Ep. 2: How to manage a complaint 101

Ep. 1: What Medical Protection provides for our members and the value of being discretionary