Here to ensure that lessons are learned
When harm is caused, either to yourself or a loved one, you want to know how it happened and to ensure it doesn’t happen to others.
Our specialist injury solicitors work with you to get answers and to seek changes to make things safer for others.
Whether you’ve sustained an injury as a result of medical negligence, been involved in a life changing accident, or suffered the death of someone close to you, our legal experts understand how important it is to seek answers about what happened.
These stories show how our team seeks to identify issues in care and safety, and to ensure lessons are learned when things go wrong.
From the pond into the sea: are lessons being learned on smoothing the transition from child to adult health services?
In 2014, the Care Quality Commission published: From the pond into the sea: Children’s transition to adult health services, providing recommendations for transition.
We are now a decade on. Have lessons been learned over the last 10 years on how to better smooth the way for children and their families as they are dropped into the sea?
Susan Fenwick's story
Find out how we secured answers for Sue after her husband died through negligent cardiac care.
Susan Fenwick first reached out to the RWK Goodman team in 2021 after negligent cardiac care led to her husband’s death. Our expert medical negligence team, led on this case by Joachim Stanley, discovered significant issues with the care delivered by Great Western Hospitals Trust. This ultimately led to a six-figure settlement of Sue’s claim.
Do we actually learn lessons from Inquiries?
Marcus Coates-Walker, Barrister at 1 Crown Office Row explores whether Inquiries actually give families the outcomes they deserve.
With ever-increasing political pressure for answers, and drive to hold publicly-funded institutions to account, there has been a growing demand to hold inquiries to seek answers, and importantly, learn from tragic events to stop something similar happening again.
There have been many high-profile inquires, including; the Iraq conflict, the culture, practices and ethics of the press (Leveson), the Grenfell Tower disaster, the Manchester Arena bombing and the UK’s handling of Covid-19. In the healthcare sector, we have also seen the Infected Blood Inquiry, and the Ockenden review (an independent review into the maternity services at Shrewsbury & Telford and Nottingham Hospitals).
Improving patient safety through inquest investigations
Becky Randel explains how inquest investigations can help to improve patient safety.
When families approach us to investigate something that might have gone wrong leading to their loved one’s death, the biggest concern is often that there is a patient safety issue going unaddressed, which could lead to someone else getting hurt. Representing families regularly at inquests means we often see the ‘bigger picture’ of patient safety concerns, particularly where we see several deaths with similar features.
Speaking with INQUEST about their No More Deaths campaign
INQUEST have witnessed coroners and inquiry chairs time and again repeating the same issues and recommendations.
We spoke to Rosanna Ellul, Senior Policy and Parliamentary Officer, about INQUEST’s campaign for a National Oversight Mechanism.
More recently we also welcomed Deborah Coles and Aniesha Obuobie onto our podcast to discuss the campaign more widely.
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