Overview of the uses and benefits of modelling – permitting situational awareness and allowing decisions on the approach to managing viral spread.

Understand the science of different approaches to vaccine development for SARS-COV-2 and the current position with respect to vaccine trials in the UK.

Understand the structure of the virus, how it replicates within cells and how possible drug treatments target the lifecycle of the virus.

Opening Address from Matthew Shaw Matthew Shaw, CEO of Great Ormond St Hospital Matthew Shaw provides an insight into how his idea for the Nightingale NHS Hospital in London became a reality.

Video recording: Speaking at Risky Business 2020 speaker Don Berwick, President Emeritus at the IHI, former advisor to Barack Obama, provides an opportunity to hear some novel, insightful and encouraging views about the future from one of the world’s great thinkers in the field.

Video recording: Speaking at Risky Business 2020 Speaker Laurie Santos, Professor of Psychology and Head of Silliman College at Yale University, shares practical advice on how to promote wellbeing during the pandemic.

Speaking at Risky Business 2020 Dr Pallavi Bradshaw highlights how disruption caused by COVID could affect medicolegal risk and what steps could be taken to reduce this. Increases awareness that there remain many unresolved legal and ethical issues which society must grapple with in the aftermath of the crisis.

Dr Lucy Hanington and Dr Clare Stapleton, Medicolegal Consultants at Medical Protection, look at doctors’ obligations during the current pandemic.

Joseph McCaughley, Litigation Solicitor at Medical Protection, looks at his recent successful defence of a member against a secondary victim claim for psychiatric injury.

This podcast is a COVID-19 hub to support our members, providing advice and guidance around medicolegal issues and maintaining their well being.

Medical Protection offers a confidential 24/7 counselling service to any members experiencing work-related stress, or stress that they feel could impact their practice. Find out more here

We are writing to you as colleagues and fellow MPS members to thank you for the work you are doing now and in the months ahead to tackle COVID-19, and also to tell you about the actions MPS is taking to support you during this time.

We are keen to support members with private practice who have seen a significant drop in their work and a dramatic fall in income. We are currently investigating ways to provide increased flexibility to make subscriptions more affordable for members during this challenging time. Once we have agreed the details, we will actively communicate and share our plans directly with members.

Information for non-practising or retired doctors in the UK who wish to return to work on the Covid-19 response

This article outlines our advice and guidance regarding the safety and suitability of remote consulting – also known as telemedicine.