Indemnity for OH Professionals

What cover is required, and what is available to the OH specialism?

Summary:

Is indemnity cover for healthcare professionals a legal requirement or an optional extra? Is it an individual or corporate responsibility? Rebecca Ghani looks at the law, current practice, and what is available to OH practitioners whose risk levels and insurance requirements may be very different to others in the healthcare arena.

ALL registered healthcare professionals in the UK will soon be required to have indemnity arrangements in place to continue to practise. Indemnity for clinical negligence covers not only…      

Rebecca Ghani is news and features writer for Occupational Health [at Work].

Author: Ghani R

Tags department of health employment law gmc general medical council insurance Liability NMC - Nursing and Midwifery Council oh policies smes - small and medium-sized enterprises

Occupational Health at Work June/July 2014 (vol. 11/1) pp16-22

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