MDDUS
“A better informed, more engaged patient base can only be a good thing for the practice of effective
evidence-based medicine”
standards and duties to the Court which can sometimes mean giving bad news about the best way forward. But it also means being tough in the extreme when we see cases
which should never have been brought. Tat’s why we welcome some of the changes brought about by the Jackson Report in England and the Taylor Report in Scotland. We think changes to Court process and funding mechanisms, far from obstructing access to justice for worthy claims, will allow those claims to be addressed more quickly by helping remove from the system those challenges which are frankly tendentious and mischievous and whose existence simply causes unnecessary anxiety to doctors and dentists doing their best on behalf of their patients. We will therefore continue to encourage legal reform in our areas of expertise, seek to continue to improve our own methods of legal working, but, above all, stay true to the highest standards of
SPRING 2015
professional integrity as we do so. I think I have to pass on trying to find an environmental theme
for MDDUS (although we are doing our level best to adopt the highest carbon management standards) but as I write this, trying to look forward, I am conscious that so much of what I have said actually has been in the life blood of the Union, not simply under Gordon’s distinguished tenure, but since our beginning in 1902. Being tough, realistic and driven by value (in every sense of the
word, not just financial) is absolutely what the Union has stood for and will continue to stand for. So maybe I can occasionally risk looking in the rear view mirror, with a view to feeling inspired by what has been achieved so far, rather than being intimidated at having to live up to it!
n Chris Kenny is CEO of MDDUS 11
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