Care Focus: Critical incident - Inquest
This event took place on 12 May 2025, and is now available to watch on-demand.
There’s been an unexpected death in the care home – what do you do?
Hear from Assistant Coroner, Partner and Barrister, Fiona Butler and inquest Barrister, Sarah Vince, as they discuss the inquest process; helping you to understand the coroner’s role, how to assess organisational risk, and how to support your staff.
An inquest is more than a fact-finding exercise. What you say can have implications for the criminal investigation, for your professional registrations and in civil proceedings. There is also a grieving family. Preparation and transparency are key.
This session aims to help you understand how to react when the unexpected happens, to ensure your organisation is well prepared and well supported:
- What evidence to gather.
- Can we talk to the family?
- How to work alongside the police.
- What do staff need to be told?
- What is article 2 and does it really apply?
- Prevention of Future Deaths reports.
The Care Focus webinar series are free of charge and exclusively for independent health and care providers and their insurance sector.
They are suitable anyone working in the health and care sector including senior leaders, executive and non-executive directors, heads of legal and in-house legal services, risk and complaints teams, registered managers, inquest and claims managers, safety and learning practitioners and colleagues involved in the management of investigations.
Our in-person and online events are designed exclusively for clients and targets. As such, we reserve the right to cancel bookings. If you’d like to speak to a member of the team regarding your attendance, please contact us.
Our speakers
Fiona Butler
Barrister (Partner)
fiona.butler@brownejacobson.com
+44 (0)115 976 6283
Sarah Vince
Barrister (Principal Associate)
Sarah.Vince@brownejacobson.com
+44 (0)330 045 2269
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