Historical versioning
Access prior versions of recommendations by date.
Medico-Legal Governance
Defensibility against hindsight bias, coroner questions, and GMC scrutiny.
Access prior versions of recommendations by date.
“Show guidance as it stood on 14 March 2023.”
Evidence packs that freeze guideline state for audits or statements.
Explicit warnings when PDFs are outdated or superseded.
Stable identifiers for recommendations used in notes or audits.
Protects clinicians against retrospective judgement using guidance that did not exist at the time.
Medico-legal exposure from shallow checks and missing context.
Version drift creates discoverable medico-legal risk.
Risk of relying on outdated thresholds in claims review.