Healthcare investigations

Expert support with healthcare investigations

Our expert investigators provide robust, supportive, independent, and timely investigations to help establish the facts of a case, address the issues, clearly identify areas for action, improvement and learning where relevant and determine what to do next.

From the rising number of high-profile independent investigations and public inquiries along with the implementation of the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) – it’s clear that there is an increasing expectation on the healthcare sector and greater public scrutiny than ever before. Carrying out healthcare investigations alongside other competing demands of delivering services, patient care and maintaining professional standards can be a challenging and lengthy process, invariably within specific timeframes which can at times be relatively short.

How can our healthcare investigation solicitors help you?

Our team of experienced health, regulatory and employment law professionals combine their legal and investigatory skills and knowledge to assist you in supporting, advising, reviewing or undertaking an investigation. Our team know that each investigation is different depending on the complexity and circumstances and therefore adopt a strategic, adaptable, thorough and objective approach when undertaking investigations.

From local level patient safety incidents causing harm to a patient in the care of a particular service, to organisation-wide investigations involving a number of patients, or employee relations matters such as disciplinaries, grievances, whistleblowing, capability and wider professional issues. Our healthcare investigation solicitors support public and private sector providers to establish the facts, analyse and evaluate the issues, learn and determine an appropriate response.

There is also significant risk that even when an issue does not initially appear to be serious, circumstances can mean that the subject matter can develop later into an independent review or public inquiry. Our experience and expertise gained from our involvement in almost every major Public Inquiry in the past ten years means that we have this awareness which can therefore add considerable value to an investigation from the outset in collecting the right evidence for use in any future inquest or inquiry.

Training and advice

We also have considerable experience in training in-house teams to design and run investigations where they have the capacity to do so.

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