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5 days ago | 
gponline.com | Ben White
We know GPs are keen to explore and adopt artificial intelligence (AI) tools, which may help to facilitate more efficient working. Transcribing software is a prime example of that and at Medical Protection we have received many calls to our advice line from GPs wanting to ensure they are aware of any medicolegal risks associated with its use.
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1 week ago | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Casey M Haining |Lindy Willmott |Ben White
CNS Care Navigation Service GP General Practitioner SPS Statewide Pharmacy Service VAD voluntary assisted dying VADANZ Voluntary Assisted Dying Australia and New Zealand Introduction All Australian jurisdictions, except the Northern Territory, have passed voluntary assisted dying (VAD) laws.
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2 weeks ago | 
medicalprotection.org | Ben White
Dr Ben White, Deputy Medical Director, addresses some key questions around the use of AI in medical practice. ______We know healthcare professionals are keen to explore and adopt Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools which may enhance patient care and help to facilitate more efficient working. However, we also know from our medicolegal advice line that members are aware of some risks associated with the use of AI, and want to better understand these risks.
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3 weeks ago | 
gponline.com | Ben White
Prescribing for adult patients with ADHD following discharge from secondary careWith specialist services under huge demand, GPs are increasingly being asked to prescribe ADHD medication to patients. Dr Ben White from Medical Protection outlines the issues doctors need to consider in these situations.
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1 month ago | 
mja.com.au | Del Villar |Eliana Close |Ben White
Med J Aust || doi: 10.5694/mja2.52634 Published online: 14 April 2025 All Australian states and the Australian Capital Territory have voluntary assisted dying (VAD) laws. Medication management will be topical in these laws’ mandatory reviews following a Queensland coronial inquest into the death of a person who consumed a VAD substance prescribed for their spouse.
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Feb 2, 2025 | 
agedcareinsite.com.au | Ben White |Lindy Willmott |Rachel Feeney
Voluntary assisted dying is lawful in all Australian states. This allows terminally ill adults who are suffering and have decision-making capacity to choose to receive help to die. Victoria’s law was the first, coming into effect in 2019. New South Wales was the last state, with its voluntary assisted dying law beginning in late 2023.
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Jan 28, 2025 | 
medicalxpress.com | Ben White |Lindy Willmott |Rachel Feeney
Voluntary assisted dying is lawful in all Australian states. This allows terminally ill adults who are suffering and have a decision-making capacity to choose to receive help to die. Victoria's law was the first, coming into effect in 2019. New South Wales was the last state, with its voluntary assisted dying law beginning in late 2023.
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Jan 27, 2025 | 
theconversation.com | Ben White |Lindy Willmott |Rachel Feeney
Voluntary assisted dying is lawful in all Australian states. This allows terminally ill adults who are suffering and have decision-making capacity to choose to receive help to die. Victoria’s law was the first, coming into effect in 2019. New South Wales was the last state, with its voluntary assisted dying law beginning in late 2023.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
spcare.bmj.com | Lindy Willmott |Rachel Feeney |Ben White
AbstractObjectives As more countries legalise assisted dying, it is of increasing significance for policy-makers and the medical profession. Doctors are needed for patients to access this choice; however, there is currently limited participation. Few studies identify what factors, if any, facilitate participation in assisted dying and how the inter-relationship of multiple factors may also influence participation.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Ben White |Hanny Wijaya
1 SHARE TENANCY AND AGRARIAN COMMODIFICATION In the early 1970s, when the second author studied sharecropping relations in the Javanese village Kaliloro, it was widely assumed the Green Revolution in rice cultivation would lead to the disappearance of share tenancy and its replacement by cash rental and/or petty capitalist farming using wage labour.
