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Follow on Google News | Solicitors Launch Scheme To Help Healthcare ProfessionalsHealthcare professionals facing investigation, or regulatory or employment sanctions, are to receive assistance from MedicAssistanceScheme - a web and telephone advice service provided by multi-office law firm Richard Nelson Solicitors
By: Duncan Finlyson Those requiring assistance will have access to the Scheme’s web site and to a telephone helpline providing up to one hour’s preliminary guidance, free of charge. Callers will receive a realistic assessment of their situation and have outlined to them the options available. Alternatively queries can be submitted via the online enquiry facility at http://www.medicassistancescheme.co.uk The scheme, which is launched by UK-based, multi-office firm Richard Nelson Solicitors (http://www.richardnelsonsolicitors.co.uk) Deborah Nicholson, Director of Healthcare Law at Richard Nelson Solicitors said: “Many healthcare professionals are fortunate enough to be members of a medical defence organisation that can assist them when problems arise. However, many are not or find that the problem with which they need help falls outside the benefits of membership. The MedicAssistanceScheme fills that gap by providing professional advice to anyone who would otherwise not have access to appropriate defence expertise.” Obtaining timely and effective advice can be critical for many in the health sector since following many complaints a regulator may seek an interim order suspending or restricting a practitioner’ Deborah Nicholson commented: “We want the MedicAssistanceScheme to become not only a resource for those seeking urgent and immediate advice but also somewhere healthcare professionals can turn when they require more general guidance, assistance and information about their respective regulator or about that which is required of them in practice. In this way we see our scheme helping to protect the public by making those who serve them more aware of their obligations and duties.” For more information: Legal - Deborah Nicholson, Director of Healthcare Law, Richard Nelson Solicitors, Priory Court, 1 Derby Road, Nottingham NG9 2TA Tel: 0115 986 3636 Fax: 0115 986 2626 Email: deborahnicholson@ Technical - Duncan Finlyson, Solicitor, Richard Nelson Solicitors, 8, The Courtyard, 707, Warwick Road, Solihull B91 1TT Tel: 0121 707 7666 Email: duncanfinlyson@ # # # About MedicAssistanceScheme - a comprehensive service to all healthcare professionals including, but not limited to, doctors, dentists, nurses, midwives, opticians, pharmacists, paramedics, physiotherapists and chiropractors. It provides both access to immediate telephone advice as well as a wide range of additional information on its web site at http://www.medicassistancescheme.co.uk . It’s aim is to supplement, not replace, the services which many receive from organizations such as the Medical Defence Union, the Medical Protection Society and the Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland as well as provide help to all of those who are not able to obtain assistance through these bodies. The Scheme is operated by Richard Nelson Solicitors, which also operates a number of other specialist web sites dealing with motoring offences (http://www.keepmedriving.co.uk), employment (http://www.employmentlawhelp.co.uk) and sports law (http://www.sportslawadvice.co.uk) End
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