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Dubai Healthcare City
‘s regulatory standards reinforced with introduction of eccentric Appeals Board for medical professionals and medical operators
• Programme with ridicule Appeals Board conference sessionheld for
DHCC
-licensed professionals and operators
• Four-member house introduced with internal and general experts
Dubai – The Appeals Board, that provides medical professionals and medical operators with an eccentric complement to interest opposite decisions relating to chartering or complaints, was rigourously introduced at
Dubai Healthcare City
(
DHCC
) on Sep 15, 2014.
A programme was organized by
Dubai Healthcare City
during that an preparation event on a workings of a Appeals Board was hold as good as a ridicule conference session.
Members of a Appeals Board were rigourously introduced to
DHCC
-licensed medical professionals and operators during a programme.
The members are Dr Guy Fish, Senior Vice President during Fletcher Spaght, US,who is a stream Chairman of a Board; Melanie Ho, Sales Consultant, TBC, Singapore; Dr Alawi Al-Shaikh, Chairman, Institute of Cardiac Sciences at
Sheikh Khalifa Medical City
, Abu Dhabi, UAE; and Dr Matthew Lohn, Managing Partner, Field Fisher Waterhouse, UK. Each member was delicately deliberate and vetted before appointment by
DHCC
, and will offer for an initial tenure of dual years.
The Appeals Board, determined in suitability with territory 102 of a Governing Regulation No.1 of 2013, is a miracle for
DHCC
‘s regulatory framework.
The introduction of a Appeals Board outlines a poignant connection by
DHCC
, permitting a medical veteran or a medical user in the
Dubai Healthcare City
to interest opposite decisions relating to chartering of medical professionals, including Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) professionals and medical operators, and to interest opposite complaints in propinquity to activities carried out in
DHCC
.
The arrangement of a Board underscores a fair, pure and estimable complaints routine that is in place in
DHCC
for both patients and medical professionals, a health and wellness end that brings together a resources of services in healthcare, medical preparation and research.
As per a new Appeals Board, a medicine can record a current interest by ancillary his/her notice of interest with new justification that was not deliberate during a initial conference and demonstrating that there is a pure probability that a initial preference was irrational or unfair. An interest might also be filed if it is upheld by any justification that was not accessible during a time a strange statute opposite a veteran was made.
In suitability with territory 94 of a Healthcare Professionals Regulation No. 2 of 2013, a preference of a Appeals Board is final.
Marwan Abedin, CEO,
DHCC
, said, The Appeals Board is partial of a most broader regulatory horizon that is in place to instil certainty in
DHCC
‘s medical standards and a governance structure. Effective and pure law is a essential cause for any medical city. As
DHCC
rolls a enlargement skeleton – opposite a backdrop of a flourishing population, medical tourism initiatives and a Phase 2 wellness judgment – we are responsive of law as an critical motorist to support long-term expansion and safeguard an best sourroundings of care.”
Regulation and licensure of all medical professionals and medical operators together with a doing of any complaints outset from a sustenance of clinical services is rubbed by a Center for Healthcare Planning and Quality (CPQ), an eccentric regulatoroverseen by
Dubai Healthcare City
Authority (DHCA), a ruling physique and regulator of
Dubai Healthcare City
.
Earlier this year, CPQ perceived a 2nd Edition of a Outpatient Clinic Quality Standards accreditation, current from May 2013 to Apr 2017 from The International Society for Quality in Health Care (ISQua), a tellurian personality in assessing a standards in medical reserve and quality.
The Customer Protection Unit (CPU) of CPQ is obliged for a complaints government system; any censure is recorded, investigated and analyzed before a preference is taken for possibly exclusion or for disciplinary action.
Prior to a arrangement of a Appeals Board, a Licensing Board of CPQ would describe a preference opposite all complaints as good as a final appealed decision. Typically complaints embody medical errors, inapt treatment, miscommunication and negligence. This year, CPQ perceived 24 complaints from Jan to June.
Members of a Appeals Board – biographies
Guy Fish, MD, Senior Vice President during Fletcher Spaght, US
Fishis a US physician, house approved in Internal Medicine; he binds an AB in Biochemistry from Harvard College, an MBA from a Yale School of Management, and an MD from a Yale School of Medicine. Doctor Fish was Chairman of a Licensing Board for Dubai Health Care City for 6 years until 2014. Prior to
DHCC
regulatory work, he was a Board Member and Chairman of a Licensing Committee for a Board of Registration in Medicine for a Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and served on a Finance and Audit Committees of a Federation of State Medical Boards. In his veteran career, Dr. Fish is Senior Vice President during Fletcher Spaght – a hybrid of health caring try capitalists and consulting to
health caring innovators/startups.
Dr Alawi A Alsheikh-Ali, Chairman, Institute of Cardiac Sciences at
Sheikh Khalifa Medical City
, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Dr Alsheikh-Ali is authority of a Institute of Cardiac Sciences, and consultantcardiologist and cardiac electrophysiologist, at
Sheikh Khalifa Medical City
in AbuDhabi, and an Assistant Professor of Medicine (adjunct) during Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, MA, USA. He is a obligatory boss of a Emirates Cardiac Society. Dr.Alsheikh-Ali is a connoisseur of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA, USA), Boston University (Boston, MA, USA), and Tufts University School of Medicine (Boston, MA, USA). He finished his internship, residency and fellowships during Tufts Medical Center (Boston, MA, USA). He is American-board approved in internalmedicine, cardiovascular diseases, and clinical cardiac electrophysiology.
Dr.Alsheikh-Ali has some-more than 100 counterpart reviewed publications to his credit, and his publications have seemed in heading journals including a Lancet, Annals of Internal Medicine, and Circulation.
Matthew Lohn, Managing Partner, Field Fisher Waterhouse, UK
Matthew is a Senior Partner during Fieldfisher. He is a Chair of a firm’s Supervisory Board and also practises as partial of a Public and Regulatory law team. He specialises in advising orthodox and Royal Charter regulators, Central Government and a far-reaching operation of Non-Departmental Public Bodies on all aspects of their regulatory work. Matthew has sold knowledge in advising on correspondence and fortify issues in healthcare. His work also encompasses associated issues including tellurian rights, information send and legal review. He acts for a regulators of a medical, dental and nursing professions in a UK. Matthew chairs a Disciplinary Panel for a British Horseracing Authority and has recently been allocated to a Determinations Panel of The Pensions Regulator.
Melanie Ho, Sales Consultant,TBC, Singapore
HO is a Deputy Head of a Specialist and Private Client Dispute Practice. Her areas of use embody medical law, insult law, use and blurb contracts, government house disputes and white collar crime.
A vast partial of her portfolio involves medical work, from polite loosening where she represents plaintiffs opposite doctors and hospitals to behaving for a Singapore Medical Council (“SMC”) where she represents a SMC in disciplinary movement taken opposite a doctors, including appeals to a High Court and a Court of Appeal. She provides advisory support to a SMC and a Singapore Dental Council in serve to representing these regulatory bodies during disciplinary inquiries.
She is recognized as a heading counsel in a area of life sciences – regulatory in Who’s Who Legal’s The International Who’s Who of Life Sciences Lawyers given 2013 and The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers 2013.
-Ends-
About Dubai Healthcare City
Launched in 2002 by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of a UAE and Ruler of Dubai,
Dubai Healthcare City
(
DHCC
) is a giveaway section mandated to accommodate a direct for high-quality, patient-centred healthcare.
Through vital partnerships,
DHCC
brings together a resources of services in healthcare, medical preparation and research, pharmaceuticals, medical equipment, wellness and associated support.
Located in a heart of Dubai,
DHCC
comprises dual phases. Phase 1, dedicated to medical and medical education, covers 4.1 million block feet, and Phase 2, that is dedicated to wellness, will cover 19 million block feet. Development in Phase 2 is underway.
DHCC
, overseen by the
Dubai Healthcare City
Authority (DHCA), operates in:
•Healthcare: The
DHCC
is home to some-more than 120 medical comforts including hospitals, outpatient medical centres and evidence laboratories with some-more than 4,000 protected professionals. Through a imagination of heading medical institutions and providers, patients have entrance to a A-Z of peculiarity healthcare.
•Education and Research: Through a Mohammed Bin Rashid Academic Medical Centre (MBR-AMC),
DHCC
aims to settle an integrated educational and clinical sourroundings to build ability and allege medical preparation in a region.
•Investment:
DHCC
offers medical and medical providers with a ‘one-stop shop’ resolution to set adult operations and relief of giveaway section benefits. The investment product portfolio has clinical, commercial, retail, business centre and free-hold land.
•Regulatory: Under DHCA, a Centre for Healthcare Planning and Quality (CPQ) is an eccentric regulatory physique obliged for chartering medical providers and professionals, and environment and progressing general best use in medical smoothness and studious caring within
DHCC
.
For serve information, greatfully visit: www.dhcc.ae
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