Head of School Seminar - Good Doctors: Competence and Professionalism Event as iCalendar

As members of the public, and potential patients, we want to be assured that all practising doctors are good doctors. We should not have to take ‘pot luck’ when we seek medical care. Yet patients in New Zealand cannot confidently rely on medical professionalism or regulatory oversight to ensure good medical practice. An estimated 5% of doctors are ‘problem doctors’ who practise below the threshold of good medical practice.

This seminar draws on a decade’s experience in handling patient complaints as Health and Disability Commissioner, and research as New Zealand Law Foundation International Research Fellow in addition to Ron’s book The Good Doctor: What Patients Want. Ron will present a ‘prescription for change’ that seeks to support professionalism, while giving patients and the public justified assurance of medical competence.

Speaker : Ron Paterson is Professor of Health Law and Policy at the University of Auckland. He was New Zealand Health and Disability Commissioner from 2000–2010. With law degrees from Auckland and Oxford Universities, Ron has held Fulbright and Harkness Fellowships. He has researched and lectured on health law and policy in the UK, the US, Canada and Australia. His book The Good Doctor: What Patients Want was published by Auckland University Press in June 2012. Ron is Chairman of the New Zealand Banking Ombudsman Scheme and a member of the Board of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians

There is no charge and all are welcome to attend, please RSVP to Evie Kinane at e.kinane@auckland.ac.nz . Tea and coffee will be provided. Feel free to bring your own lunch.