Dr Chris Moughan is Medical Advisor to the Treatment Injury Centre, ACC Wellington. Chris graduated from Otago University in 1976 and gained his FRNZCGP in 1988. Chris worked as a GP specializing in Obstetrician, in Hastings from 1980. Chris moved into Occupational Medicine in 2000, and has been an ACC Treatment Injury Medical Advisor to the since 2007.
| Iatrogenic Injuries – ACC’s General Practice Perspective
ACC Breakfast Session |
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| Friday, 15 August 2014 | Start 7:00am | Duration: 60mins | Plenary |
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In 2005, the Accident Compensation Act changed from Medical
Misadventure to Treatment Injury in order to shift from a focus on
medical error to one of the client and their needs. ACC receives
approximately 10,000 claims for treatment injury per year of which
over 60% are accepted for cover. Whilst the primary focus of the
Treatment Injury Centre is determining cover for treatment injury
claims, an ancillary role is to report any reasonable belief of risk
of harm that becomes apparent in the course of claim assessment.
Usually this involves reporting the facility to the Director General
of Health but when peer review has been critical of the standard of
treatment, the individual may be reported to their registration
authority. This presentation will include a number of interesting case
studies which will assist the audience to understand treatment injury
and provide ‘food for thought’ that may be applied to clinical
practice.
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