Shared Insights
Browne Jacobson’s Shared Insights – connecting health and care professionals to share learning and best practice and tackle some of the sector’s biggest challenges together
Shared Insights is an online forum hosted by Browne Jacobson on Microsoft Teams to connect leaders and professionals from across the health and care sector to discuss the challenges you face and share solutions, ideas and best practice to tackle them. Shared Insights is a national forum which has connected leaders and professionals across all 7 NHS regions to share learning and experience. At every session, we hear from speakers who are industry experts and also from specialist lawyers who share their knowledge and expertise free of charge to inform these discussions about the biggest issues in health and care. Shared Insights has proved to be a vital resource for those on the front line of health and care to exchange ideas and talk about the issues that matter to you.
Discuss the big issues that matter to you with the Shared Insights community
Shared Insights aims to:
- Connect health and care organisations and professionals to discuss the key challenges you face.
- Share learning and experience across the sector – featuring leading national experts and specialist lawyers as well as health and care leaders and front line professionals to consider the issues from all perspectives.
- Create conversations that make a difference.
You can read the key insights from our previous Shared Insights sessions below.
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Previous Shared Insights
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Implementing learning from claims to help improve patient safety - Focus on Diabetes and Lower Limb Complications
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Shared Insights: Coroners’ Question Time
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Shared Insights: Looking ahead to 2023 – what Health and Care employers need to know
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Shared Insights: Prolonged disorders of consciousness
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Shared Insights: The Patient Safety Incident Response Framework
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Shared Insights: Focus on emergency medicine
In our latest Shared Insights session, Focus on Emergency Medicine, chaired by Jennifer Fagin and Amelia Newbold, we were pleased to be joined by: Dr Alex Crowe, Deputy Director Incentive Schemes & Academic Partnerships, NHS Resolution and Consultant Nephrologist and Miss Susie Hewitt MBE, Consultant in Emergency Medicine, University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust.
Legal Update - Shared Insights
Shared Insights: The Fitness to Practise Regime
In this session, our speakers discussed the Fitness to Practise Regime and how we can help.
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Shared Insights: Coroners' Question Time
In this session, our speakers discussed fundamentals of disclosure, general points on disclosure & Post-Pandemic, interested Persons & Patient Safety Incident Response, and how we can help & Takeaway Tips.
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Shared Insights: Overview of inquests in relation to deaths in custody
In this session, our speakers discussed gave an overview of inquests in relation to deaths in custody and discussed three key themes; Documentation Provision, Communication, and Decision making. They also discussed Healthcare in a prison setting - manging the unique challenges.
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Shared Insights: The impact of Ockenden and implementation of the IEAs from ward to Board
In this session, our speakers discussed the final Ockenden report, the Midwifery Perspective, the Board Perspective, and the Wider national initiatives - Monitoring May.
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Shared Insights: Medical Mediation in Health and Social Care
In this session, our speakers discussed recognising and managing conflict, the benefits of mediation and the practicalities, and the safety and learning perspective.
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Shared Insights: Safeguarding Forum. Child Safeguarding in childcare proceedings
Our speakers looked at Child Safeguarding in childcare proceedings.
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Shared Insights: Mental Health Units (Use of Force) Act: What does it mean for hospitals in the mental health and acute sector?
Our speakers looked at the Mental Health Units (Use of Force) Act and what it means for hospitals in the mental health and acute sector.
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Shared Insights: Mental Health in Maternity
Our speakers looked at the legal framework for maternal mental health issues, the obstetrician’s perspective & the psychiatrist’s perspective.
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Shared Insights: Preparing for 2022 – the big issues for legal teams across health and social care
We were delighted to be joined by Dr Nigel Sturrock, Regional Medical Director for the Midlands at NHS England and NHS Improvement. He gave an overview of the pressures placed on the NHS by the pandemic, including the impact on urgent and emergency care, elective procedures and staffing.
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Shared Insights: Safeguarding Forum - Safe discharge and conveyance of patients
It is important to bear in mind the legal framework when planning discharge and conveyance plans but practicalities are also key.
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Shared Insights: Coroners’ Question Time, part 2
The panel of experienced Coroners gave an outline of the current backlog and the pandemic recovery plan implemented in their jurisdiction.
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Shared Insights: Mental health patients: learning from incidents and inquests
Our speakers looked at themes arising from inquests, learning from participating in RCAs, the clinician’s perspective and a difficult case study.
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Shared Insights: Managing violent, abusive and racist patients
Rebecca Fitzpatrick, Helen Badger and Carl May-Smith, Partners at Browne Jacobson provided an overview of the legal frameworks in place that can assist Trusts when managing violent, abusive and racist patients
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Shared Insights: Quarterly safeguarding forum - challenging families and best interests
In this Shared Insights session, we discuss difficulties faced by professionals when dealing with challenging family members and highlighted the legal frameworks and mechanisms that can be implemented to manage these behaviours in order to protect staff and keep the patient’s best interests at the centre of decision making.
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Shared Insights: Implementing the Ockenden Immediate and Essential Actions for safe maternal and newborn care
In this Shared Insights session we provided an overview of the implementation of the Ockenden Immediate and Essential actions.
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Shared Insights: the future of interaction between health and social care
This session discussed the future of interaction between NHS Trusts and local government amidst a drive for better integrated care.
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Shared Insights: Learning from operating theatre claims and the challenges of service recovery post-pandemic
In this Shared Insights session, we discussed how prior to the pandemic, looking at the themes and learning arising from Operating Theatre claims between 2010 and 2020 and about the challenges faced by NHS Trusts as they seek to restore surgical and other services post-pandemic.
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Shared Insights: Safeguarding forum - chronic eating disorders
In this Shared Insights session we listen to unique perspective and learning outcomes from dealing with eating disorder patients.
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Shared Insights: Inquests: recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic
In this Shared Insights session we discussed how different Coroners are approaching recovery from the pandemic.
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Shared insights: The Paterson Inquiry: learning for the healthcare system
Implications for in-house legal, patient safety, clinical governance, workforce culture and large-scale reviews.
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Shared Insights: the Covid-19 pandemic - workforce challenges for NHS trusts
This shared insight provided an insight into the legal issues arising from Covid-19 related illness, including long Covid and PTSD.
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Shared Insights: Update on the Early Notification Scheme and the role of Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB)
This shared insight discussed the changes to improve and streamline the investigation process for cases under the Early Notification (EN) Scheme (changes which came into effect from 1 April 2021).
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Shared Insights: The Covid-19 pandemic – the challenges for in house legal teams
This shared insight is on indemnity issues stemming from the Covid-19 pandemic and looks the issues that Trust legal teams have faced over the last 12 months during the pandemic.
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Shared Insights: How to manage the "unmanageable"
This shared insight is on indemnity issues stemming from the Covid-19 pandemic and looks the issues that Trust legal teams have faced over the last 12 months during the pandemic.
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Shared Insights: Key themes arising from obstetric claims and inquests
This shared insight looks at the NHS Early Notification team and helping Trusts with cases where babies have died following birth or where mothers have sustained severe injuries during childbirth, speaking of the consequences of these claims and the current focus on safety in maternity services.
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Shared Insights: Managing complex patients
The importance of Trusts developing a written plan so that you are ready to act quickly if anti-Covid or anti-vaccination protesters come on to your site to protest.
Training - Shared Insights
Giving evidence at a Coroner’s inquest – guidance for clinical witnesses
The aim of this film is to help clinical witnesses to prepare for giving evidence remotely and to illustrate how best a witness can help the Coroner and the family during a remote inquest hearing.
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Shared Insights: Confidentiality and medical records
We talk about the key legal principles that apply when processing requests for access to confidential information and gave some practical tips on how to deal with issues that might arise when Trusts are dealing with complex information requests.
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Shared Insights: Dealing with protesters on NHS premises
The importance of Trusts developing a written plan so that you are ready to act quickly if anti-Covid or anti-vaccination protesters come on to your site to protest.
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Shared Insights: Looking ahead – HR and workforce challenges in 2021
Practical tips to share with healthcare HR colleagues on issues which may cause employee relations issues and litigation in 2021.
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Shared Insights: What individuals and NHS organisations should expect from the regulators in 2021
An update on what individuals and NHS organisations should expect from the regulators in 2021.
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Shared Insights: Claims update and look ahead to the issues that will shape the approach to claims in the NHS in 2021
Insights were shared on procedure, witness statements, withdrawing admissions and taking screenshots and photos in remote hearings.
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Shared Insights: The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on consent
Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board [2015], the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, patients who lack capacity to make a particular decision and data on consent claims.
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Shared Insights: The Mental Capacity Act - when to go to the Court of Protection - practical guidance for NHS Trusts
When NHS Trusts should consider going to the Court of Protection.
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