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Chapter 4 - Business Matters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2021

Keith Rix ,
Laurence Mynors-Wallis  and
Ciaran Craven
By
Danny Allen  and
Keith Rix
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Summary

It is from the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) or Ireland’s Health Service Executive or public voluntary hospitals that you are likely to start your expert witness career. Be mindful of your contractual obligations. You cannot get on with your medicolegal work and say nothing or your probity will be in question. However, many employers, in agreeing a job plan, are happy for consultants to do some medicolegal work in ‘work’ time. If you want to do it on your employer’s premises, you need permission. Your employer may want payment, but this will be a deductible business expense.

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Rix's Expert Psychiatric Evidence , pp. 53 - 64
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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Allen, D. (2014) Business for Medics: How to Set Up and Run a Medical Practice (Kindle Direct Publishing).Google Scholar

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