Tailored support for your organisation

Turn to us if a patient makes a claim against your organisation or the employed/contracted staff who provided their care.

We offer bespoke indemnity arrangements for your dental organisation while retaining individual professional membership for your healthcare team.

Our solutions are designed to leave no indemnity gaps, whether you’re working in a community interest company, social enterprise or private company.

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What are the benefits?

  • Indemnity and defence costs for claims brought against the company for its activities in providing clinical professional services.
  • Indemnity includes support for Good Samaritan acts for your identified staff.
  • Indemnity for legal expenses incurred in defending allegations of corporate manslaughter, harassment and unlawful discrimination.
  • Indemnity for a company for legal expenses incurred in relation to an investigation or enquiry by a governmental or regulatory authority (but not a registration body).
  • Indemnity extension can be arranged to provide for legal costs incurred by the company for individual directors for the company who are dentists, but who are not otherwise indemnified, who have to attend GDC enquiries into their fitness to practise in relation to their involvement in the company's affairs.

Extra benefits from our partners

Employment law

  • Free 24-hour employment law advice by telephone or email from Peninsula1.
  • Expert help with drafting follow-up letters you may need to send.
  • Telephone coaching to help you manage difficult or complex employee relations.
  1. Peninsula is the leading provider of employment law and health and safety services in the UK. Established since 1983, Peninsula has over 30,000 business customers who have already integrated Peninsula’s services to work as part of their HR and health and safety departments.
     

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Case scenarios

Corporate groups are not immune to clinical negligence claims. Here are some examples of scenarios where we have helped.

Foreign body
Foreign body

A 25-year-old student attends a GP walk-in centre which is run by a corporate body.

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Prescription error
Prescription error

An elderly woman with atrial fibrillation is stable on a daily dose of 2mgs/3mgs of warfarin.

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Delayed diagnosis
Delayed diagnosis

Concerned about an unsightly mole, a businessman visits a private dermatology clinic where it is excised.

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Infection control
Infection control

A dental corporate employs a temporary sterilisation technician to disinfect and sterilise instruments at one of its practices to cover a period of sick leave.

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