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Welcome to the latest edition of Casebook.
The future of medicine is an exciting prospect, with the pace of medical developments growing ever more rapidly. The use of artificial intelligence (AI) proved to be a hot topic in our last edition of Casebook and so we’ve got even more insights to share with you. We share a viewpoint from the chair of the MPS Foundation, Prof Gozie Offiah, on an important white paper that the Foundation has funded and supported on the integration of AI into healthcare. Peter J Mordecai also shares his take on the intersection of AI, medicine, and law.
But the future isn’t just reliant on technology, it’s also the people working in healthcare who we must recognise and champion. For the first time in the UK there are more women doctors than men on to the GMC register, as reported in BBC News. With this timely news, we’re delighted to announce that Dr Fatma Sabet has been appointed to an MPS Foundation-funded fellowship at the University of Exeter to research the impact of menopause and advance knowledge on the support for healthcare professionals navigating menopause. We interview Fatma on the aims and hopes for this research.
We also share an exclusive interview with the new Chief Medical Officer for Health New Zealand, Helen Stokes-Lampard. Having only recently made the move to New Zealand, Professor Dame Helen has spent the majority of her career working as a GP in the UK and as Chair of the Royal College of GPs and the Academy of Medical Royal College. We discuss her career insights and new role.
Social activism is another vital element to discuss as we look to the future, with Dr Sabira Hughes sharing how healthcare professionals can express their views while also maintaining professional standards.
While we look to the future, we also highlight current practices. Dr Beth Walker and Dr Sophie Haroon discuss how to best support high risk patients amid increasing demand for private healthcare. In this edition Dr Emma Green also shares how consent has evolved with some defining cases that have led to the principles of consent and how they apply to current practice.
The eagle-eyed among you may have also noted a slight change to my job title here at Medical Protection, now the Medical Director and Chief Member Officer. The latter is a new role in which I am part of the Executive team, to which I bring my own clinical knowledge and member experience. The member voice has always been an integral part of Medical Protection, being owned by our members and for our members, and I’m keen to play my part in this to ensure we are always there to support members in the best way possible.
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