We’ve asked our in-house clinical negligence lawyer, Katie Lynch, to take time out of her busy schedule to answer a few questions which we believe will shed further, invaluable, light on Katie’s role here at Speed Medical.

From efficient and dedicated case handlers to those learned experts who comprise our panel, our clinical negligence team has been providing a peerless and hugely important function within the company since its inception, 23 years ago. With this milestone in mind, we thought what better time to remind ourselves of the job our clinical negligence team does, and the case handlers who facilitate this key operation. By putting a few questions to those responsible for handling these cases.

Made up of industry leading, experienced professionals, the overarching mantra of the clinical advisory board is to uphold everything set out in our clinical governance framework. Thanks to the diverse spectrum of clinical expertise enveloped within the team, perspectives are wide-angled and far-reaching to better facilitate best clinical practice performance across all key areas.

Both claimant and defendant lawyers broke the news recently that these new practices, rolled out during the height of the lockdown, will remain in situ for the foreseeable future. Originally ratified last summer by the Society of Clinical Injury Lawyers and NHS Resolution, a raft of timely revisions saw the introduction of a greater degree of flexibility on limitation periods, along with the more widespread facilitation of email channels to communicate documentation via.

“The best employer of 2021 is not the biggest, but it’s certainly the most impressive. Speed Medical stood out for its investment throughout the pandemic, in everything from technology to wellbeing. Its employees were empowered and supported with a broad response in a year when this employer also secured an Investors in People Gold award.”

A report recently compiled by The Commons Health and Social Care Committee brought into sharp focus what its contributors described as a ‘particularly unfair’ means by which to calculate compensation in many clinical negligence cases.

With a trusted national panel of experts our customers are confident when instructing us to undertake medical reports and rehabilitation programmes for a variety of case types, ranging from cases of clinical negligence to employer and public liability.

Conforming to the principles of what constitutes both public liability and employer liability claims, members of either the public - or a workforce - have recently found themselves more susceptible to another form of slip, trip and fall personal injury.