Since April 2000 Eunice Muir has been seconded from her post as Deputy Director of Nursing and Planning at Forth Valley Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. She is providing the clinical and managerial expertise to the implementation and assessment of the Risk Management Standards of the new Clinical Negligence and Other Risks Indemnity Scheme (CNORIS) for the NHS in Scotland (Scottish Executive: NHS MEL (1999) 86, NHS MEL (2000) 14, and NHS HDL (2000) 02). In this second article in our Risk Management series, she explains the reasons for having a risk management framework as provided by CNORIS.
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