Simon Hammond joined the NHS Resolution Senior Management Team on 7 January 2019 as the Director of Claims Management. Simon has a wide variety of experience in handling claims having worked for the insurance industry for over 25 years.
Simon held head of fraud roles at national law firms, before joining his previous employer, BLM, in 2009. He was promoted to associate solicitor in 2010 and to partner in 2011.
Simon has experience of handling all aspects of claims, from policy interpretation, indemnity issues, litigation and prosecution matters. He sat on the Personal Injury Sub Working Group of the Treasury’s Insurance Fraud Task Force, and has also presented at national conferences and edited a chapter of a leading insurance text book.
More recently Simon has chaired national conferences on the subject of Clinical Negligence and has given evidence to the Health and Social Care Select Committee on the subject of NHS litigation reform.
Dominic is Director of Knowledge at Frenkel Topping.
His specialty is Civil Litigation Procedure. He is a columnist at the ‘New Law Journal’, writes a column for every edition of ‘ Litigation Funding’ and is Special Adviser to the Association of Costs Lawyers.
Patrick is a consultant ENT surgeon at Cambridge University Hospitals with an interest in clinical innovation. He has translated ideas into regulated medical products that deliver demonstrable patient benefit. In this presentation, Patrick outlines the development of one such innovation, focusing on the practical realities of product design, regulatory approval, patent protection, and commercialisation. He will discuss the challenges encountered, the lessons learned along the way, and the tips and tricks that ultimately led to successful acquisition by a third party.
Dr Clare Stapleton is a Medicolegal Consultant at the London Office of MedicalProtection. Before joining MPS in 2019, she was a Consultant in Anaesthesia andIntensive Care at Wexham Park Hospital, Frimley Health for 16 years. She wasthe patient safety lead clinician, led the mortality review process and set upthe Medical Examiner service at Frimley Health.
At Medical Protection she assists membersby providing medicolegal advice. She supports and advises health carepractitioners involved in patient safety incident investigations, inquests,disciplinary and regulatory investigations as well as criminal matters relatingto clinical care.
Dr Ben Huntley is a consultant pain medicine specialist and expert witness providing independent, court-compliant pain evidence through Pain Expert Limited. Dr Huntley has extensive experience as a Chronic Pain Consultant, managing complex cases in both the public and the private sector. His well-established reputation is based on his diligent practice, the approachable and professional manner of his communication and his detailed knowledge of chronically painful conditions.
A computer scientist and engineer, Sarthak specialises in high-stakes systems and scaled infrastructure. He previously developed core trading technology for a multi-billion dollar quantitative hedge fund, managing massive transactional volumes. He holds a Computer Science degree from the University of Oxford and is an MBA candidate at MIT Sloan.
Currently, he is the founder of Minerva Labs. Minerva leverages cutting-edge AI to transform the medico-legal landscape. By bridging AI with complex regulatory needs, Minerva is automating clinical documentation and high-fidelity data processing for the medical and litigation sector.
Lorin has devoted the last 30 years to women's healthcare. She has conducted research into high risk pregnancies and is an RCOG educational supervisor and GMC appraiser. Her special interest areas include clinical safety strategies and obstetric litigation. She is the author of "Delivering the Truth: why NHS maternity care is broken and how we can fix it together".
Professor Pat Price has been working to redefine cancer treatment for 35 years. She trained in general medicine in Cambridge and in oncology at the Royal Marsden Hospital. She undertook her research degree at the Institute of Cancer Research and was awarded the Cambridge University medal for best laboratory-based MD in 1991.
Gavin is Managing Director of MLAS. An experienced director and entrepreneur, Gavin enjoyed a successful career in the pharmaceutical sector where he spent 30 years in a variety of leadership roles including as Chair of the Association of British Pharmaceutical Industry's Oncology Initiative, improving access to new cancer treatments. Gavin joined became Managing Director of Rehab Direct in 2015, set up MLAS and acquired Pure Physiotherapy, thus forming what is now Pure Unity Health Group. Until retiring in 2024 Gavin was the Lead Governor of the Rotherham Foundation Trust. In 2024 Exam Works UK acquired Pure unity Health Group and Gavin has stayed to facilitate the integration and further growth of the group.
Jessica Thurston is the Managing Director at Somek & Associates, bringing over 25 years of experience as a Care and Occupational Therapy Expert Witness. She has worked extensively across a broad range of cases involving amputations and specifically multiple limb loss. Jessica is deeply passionate about the independence and integrity of the expert role, advocating for objective, evidence-based reporting. She is a figurehead in the medico-legal field and exemplifies our commitment to shaping the future of medico-legal excellence. She contributes to the renowned ‘Facts and Figures’ tables used in damage calculations and mentors junior experts through training programmes beyond S&A e.g. for the Expert Witness Institute, helping shape the next generation of high-calibre expert witnesses. She also works alongside the Royal College of Occupational Therapy to raise the professional standards of care and OT expert witnesses.
Victoria has been a GP for 18 years and during this time has worked as a salaried GP, a GP partner, and in Urgent Treatment Centres. Her experience spans both NHS and private general practice, and she currently works as an NHS GP locum. She has been an Expert Witness for over five years and has completed hundreds of reports.
Email: drvictoria.kerry.gpexpert@outlook.com
Simon Hammond joined the NHS Resolution Senior Management Team on 7 January 2019 as the Director of Claims Management. Simon has a wide variety of experience in handling claims having worked for the insurance industry for over 25 years.
Simon held head of fraud roles at national law firms, before joining his previous employer, BLM, in 2009. He was promoted to associate solicitor in 2010 and to partner in 2011.
Simon has experience of handling all aspects of claims, from policy interpretation, indemnity issues, litigation and prosecution matters. He sat on the Personal Injury Sub Working Group of the Treasury’s Insurance Fraud Task Force, and has also presented at national conferences and edited a chapter of a leading insurance text book.
More recently Simon has chaired national conferences on the subject of Clinical Negligence and has given evidence to the Health and Social Care Select Committee on the subject of NHS litigation reform.
Dominic is Director of Knowledge at Frenkel Topping.
His specialty is Civil Litigation Procedure. He is a columnist at the ‘New Law Journal’, writes a column for every edition of ‘ Litigation Funding’ and is Special Adviser to the Association of Costs Lawyers.
Patrick is a consultant ENT surgeon at Cambridge University Hospitals with an interest in clinical innovation. He has translated ideas into regulated medical products that deliver demonstrable patient benefit. In this presentation, Patrick outlines the development of one such innovation, focusing on the practical realities of product design, regulatory approval, patent protection, and commercialisation. He will discuss the challenges encountered, the lessons learned along the way, and the tips and tricks that ultimately led to successful acquisition by a third party.
Dr Clare Stapleton is a Medicolegal Consultant at the London Office of MedicalProtection. Before joining MPS in 2019, she was a Consultant in Anaesthesia andIntensive Care at Wexham Park Hospital, Frimley Health for 16 years. She wasthe patient safety lead clinician, led the mortality review process and set upthe Medical Examiner service at Frimley Health.
At Medical Protection she assists membersby providing medicolegal advice. She supports and advises health carepractitioners involved in patient safety incident investigations, inquests,disciplinary and regulatory investigations as well as criminal matters relatingto clinical care.
Dr Ben Huntley is a consultant pain medicine specialist and expert witness providing independent, court-compliant pain evidence through Pain Expert Limited. Dr Huntley has extensive experience as a Chronic Pain Consultant, managing complex cases in both the public and the private sector. His well-established reputation is based on his diligent practice, the approachable and professional manner of his communication and his detailed knowledge of chronically painful conditions.
A computer scientist and engineer, Sarthak specialises in high-stakes systems and scaled infrastructure. He previously developed core trading technology for a multi-billion dollar quantitative hedge fund, managing massive transactional volumes. He holds a Computer Science degree from the University of Oxford and is an MBA candidate at MIT Sloan.
Currently, he is the founder of Minerva Labs. Minerva leverages cutting-edge AI to transform the medico-legal landscape. By bridging AI with complex regulatory needs, Minerva is automating clinical documentation and high-fidelity data processing for the medical and litigation sector.
Lorin has devoted the last 30 years to women's healthcare. She has conducted research into high risk pregnancies and is an RCOG educational supervisor and GMC appraiser. Her special interest areas include clinical safety strategies and obstetric litigation. She is the author of "Delivering the Truth: why NHS maternity care is broken and how we can fix it together".
Professor Pat Price has been working to redefine cancer treatment for 35 years. She trained in general medicine in Cambridge and in oncology at the Royal Marsden Hospital. She undertook her research degree at the Institute of Cancer Research and was awarded the Cambridge University medal for best laboratory-based MD in 1991.
Gavin is Managing Director of MLAS. An experienced director and entrepreneur, Gavin enjoyed a successful career in the pharmaceutical sector where he spent 30 years in a variety of leadership roles including as Chair of the Association of British Pharmaceutical Industry's Oncology Initiative, improving access to new cancer treatments. Gavin joined became Managing Director of Rehab Direct in 2015, set up MLAS and acquired Pure Physiotherapy, thus forming what is now Pure Unity Health Group. Until retiring in 2024 Gavin was the Lead Governor of the Rotherham Foundation Trust. In 2024 Exam Works UK acquired Pure unity Health Group and Gavin has stayed to facilitate the integration and further growth of the group.
Jessica Thurston is the Managing Director at Somek & Associates, bringing over 25 years of experience as a Care and Occupational Therapy Expert Witness. She has worked extensively across a broad range of cases involving amputations and specifically multiple limb loss. Jessica is deeply passionate about the independence and integrity of the expert role, advocating for objective, evidence-based reporting. She is a figurehead in the medico-legal field and exemplifies our commitment to shaping the future of medico-legal excellence. She contributes to the renowned ‘Facts and Figures’ tables used in damage calculations and mentors junior experts through training programmes beyond S&A e.g. for the Expert Witness Institute, helping shape the next generation of high-calibre expert witnesses. She also works alongside the Royal College of Occupational Therapy to raise the professional standards of care and OT expert witnesses.
Victoria has been a GP for 18 years and during this time has worked as a salaried GP, a GP partner, and in Urgent Treatment Centres. Her experience spans both NHS and private general practice, and she currently works as an NHS GP locum. She has been an Expert Witness for over five years and has completed hundreds of reports.
Email: drvictoria.kerry.gpexpert@outlook.com
Sir Edward Pepperall was called to the Bar in 1989, appointed a recorder in 2009, Queen's Counsel in 2013, a Deputy High Court Judge in 2016 (Queen's Bench & Chancery) and a Justice of the Court of Appeal of the Falklands Islands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands in 2017. He was appointed a High Court Judge in 2018 and sits in the Queen's Bench Division. He is a judge of the Technology & Construction Court and a Presiding Judge of the Midland Circuit. Sir Edward practised from St Philips Chambers in Birmingham and London, where he was a Deputy Head of Chambers, Chairman of the Commercial Group and Chairman of the Midland Chancery & Commercial Bar Association. He was a barrister member of the Civil Procedure Rule Committee for six years and was the chief architect of the 2015 reforms to Part 36. He is an editor of the White Book and a Bencher of Lincoln's Inn.
After graduating University, Alex has worked exclusively within the clinical negligence sector alongside expert witnesses, insurers and legal professionals. This work has been to promote the use of technology in the sector to drive efficiencies, analytics and patient safety improvements.
Overseeing the day-to-day running of a company reviewing 750 cases of alleged negligence a month Alex has developed a key understanding of the nuances of the sector and how technology can be utilised to help all involved.
Isabel is a specialist in catastrophic injury claims involving brain and spinal injured claimants and also has extensive clinical negligence experience, with expertise developed over 20 years. During the past 7 years, Isabel has concentrated her practice on foreign jurisdiction claims for both claimants and defendants and on inquest and inquiry work. Isabel's expertise includes European law cases but also cases in other jurisdictions outside the European Union including the US, Australia, Africa, Indonesia and Sri Lanka. The current trend of cosmetic surgery cases abroad is also serving to generate cross-border clinical claims.
Isabel has experience of providing personal representation and advocacy on behalf of families at inquests and giving support via the Foreign and Commonwealth Office with Victim Support for advice and family liaison for families subject to homicide abroad. Isabel facilitates legal support from an extensive network of foreign lawyers so that families may have legal advice abroad and representation at foreign criminal trials. Isabel has significant expertise of inquest hearings, notably as a Recognised Legal Representative to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry, which is subject to Article 2 of the ECHR. Isabel's clinical negligence experience includes acting for protected parties and she was recently involved with the Court of Protection and the Official Solicitor on the settlement of a case at £7.6 million.
Isabel also lectures and trains consultants and expert witnesses on clinical negligence cases and inquests. In her role as a Solicitor Advocate at Inquests, Isabel will provide an update to the media outside court.
Caroline is the former Head of Regional and International Claims at the Medical Protection Society with 30 years collective experience, firstly as a litigation lawyer and subsequently in claims management, working with medical and dental clinicians, experts and lawyers in the UK and overall 20 countries around the world. Since 2019, she has been a Consultant in Medico-Legal risk management and education focusing on understanding, and how to meet, the challenges of today's risk management landscape, from first contact with a patient to the outcome of a claim, complaint or inquest.
Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine at University Hospital Southampton NHSFT and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer
Chris has over 30 years’ experience as a doctor. He trained in general internal medicine, microbiology/virology and anaesthesia before switching to intensive care medicine. In 2002 he was appointed as consultant intensive physician, at the Royal Berkshire Hospital before moving to University Hospital Southampton in December 2020. His practice is in General and Neuro Intensive Care Medicine. Chris also has academic roles at the University of Southampton, Kings College London and the University of Reading. His research interests are in complex decision making related to serious medical treatment. Chris has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine for exceptional services to the science and practice of Forensic and Legal Medicine.
Associate Solicitor in the Clinical Risk department at DAC Beachcroft, Leeds, acting on behalf of NHS Resolution in defence of clinical negligence claims. Responsible for a varied caseload, including birth injury, cauda equina and amputation claims and a particular interest in advising on claims involving fundamental dishonesty/fraudulent exaggeration, with experience of contempt of court proceedings arising out of the same.
Simon Hammond joined the NHS Resolution Senior Management Team on 7 January 2019 as the Director of Claims Management. Simon has a wide variety of experience in handling claims having worked for the insurance industry for over 25 years.
Simon held head of fraud roles at national law firms, before joining his previous employer, BLM, in 2009. He was promoted to associate solicitor in 2010 and to partner in 2011.
Simon has experience of handling all aspects of claims, from policy interpretation, indemnity issues, litigation and prosecution matters. He sat on the Personal Injury Sub Working Group of the Treasury’s Insurance Fraud Task Force, and has also presented at national conferences and edited a chapter of a leading insurance text book.
More recently Simon has chaired national conferences on the subject of Clinical Negligence and has given evidence to the Health and Social Care Select Committee on the subject of NHS litigation reform.
Laura's work encompasses all areas of clinical practice, acting for both claimants and defendants. She is very experienced in cases involving catastrophic injury, including brain and spinal injury. She has a particular interest in novel legal issues and has appeared recently in the Court of Appeal and High Court in leading cases involving questions of consent and the duty of care owed to secondary victims. She has particular expertise in claims involving obstetrics and gynaecology with recent instructions spanning emergency care, oncology, opthalmics, general surgery, colorectal surgery, cardiology and cardiac surgery, mental health and cosmetic surgery.
Anirudh has a keen interest in clinical negligence and has experience of drafting statements of case, schedules and counter-schedules of loss, and advices on both liability and quantum. He has been exposed to a range of complex medical claims including birth injuries, failure to diagnose cauda equina syndrome and delayed diagnosis of cancer. Recent work includes drafting a Particulars of Claim alleging a failure to diagnose heart failure, advising and drafting a Defence responding to allegations of dental negligence, and advising on several multi-defendant clinical negligence claims, including alleged failures to diagnose bowel and cervical cancer.
Mr Parker is a Consultant Ear, Nose and Throat Surgeon, previously at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield and now at Peak Medical Practice in the Hope Valley, Derbyshire and based in the Clinical Sciences Block at Huntbridge Hall, Matlock. After qualifying from Leeds Medical School in 1981, he undertook Registrar and post-graduate research training in Bristol before becoming Senior Registrar to the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals in 1988 and then obtaining his Consultant appointment in 1992.
He is currently in NHS and private practice in the High Peak area of Derbyshire, centred upon Chapel-en-le Frith and Sheffield. Mr Parker has been Programme Director for the North Trent ENT training rotation and Lead clinician for Head and Neck cancer at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital in Sheffield. He is a member of the Court of Examiners at the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Mr Parker has engaged in busy medico-legal practice from the early 1990s, concentrating on the areas of personal injury, acoustic shock, whiplash, noise induced hearing loss, voice disorder and occupational rhinosinusitis.
Georgina Parkin is the Managing Director and co-owner of Truth Legal solicitors, based in Harrogate and Leeds. Truth Legal specialises in personal injury, clinical negligence, professional negligence, family law, immigration law and employment law. The firm’s website (truthlegal.com) has a wealth of legal information and ranks as one of the best-read law blogs in the country, with a readership of around 40,000 per month.
Georgina joined Truth Legal in 2013, rapidly rising to the position of Director in 2016 and Managing Director in 2020. In January 2021, Georgina became co-owner of Truth Legal. She was President of the Harrogate and District Law Society in 2020 and continues to sit on the membership committee of the Harrogate and District Law Society.
Georgina has over ten years of experience in personal injury law, which includes claims for accidents at work, road traffic accidents, assaults at work, public liability, product liability and clinical negligence. Whilst Georgina acts solely for Claimants at Truth Legal, she has previously represented Defendant insurance companies and retail organisations. She has particular expertise in chronic pain disorders and serious injury cases.
Dominic is Director of Knowledge at Frenkel Topping.
His specialty is Civil Litigation Procedure. He is a columnist at the ‘New Law Journal’, writes a column for every edition of ‘ Litigation Funding’ and is Special Adviser to the Association of Costs Lawyers.
I have worked in the automotive industry for over 20 years and have been with Personal Mobility Solutions for 5 years. I have a background in litigation and worked for a leading car hire company as a Litigation Manager. Wanting to expand my qualifications I studied as a counsellor and spent time working on an all-female acute forensic ward with patients of varying mental and physical ability under the Mental Health and Mental Capacity Act. On average I see 3-4 clients a week for both passenger and driver need including all wheelchair accessible vehicle requirements.
Clare Stapleton is a Medicolegal Consultant at the London Office of Medical Protection. Before joining MPS she was a Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care at Wexham Park Hospital, Frimley Health for 16 years. She was the patient safety lead clinician and also led the mortality review process and set up the Medical Examiner service at Frimley Health.
At Medical Protection she assists members by providing medicolegal advice and supports and advises doctors who are involved in Serious Incidents, inquests, disciplinary and regulatory investigations.
I am in clinical practice as a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon in London and Berkshire. I was appointed as a full time NHS Consultant in 1996 at Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals. I qualified in Medicine at Imperial College London (Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School) in 1988. My clinical practice is in knee surgery, sports injuries and paediatric orthopaedics. My specialist interest is arthroscopic knee surgery, ACL reconstruction, lower limb trauma and rehabilitation after amputation surgery. I have been in medico-legal practice since 1992. My medico-legal practice is in both Berkshire and London. I am regularly instructed on behalf of claimants, defendants and as a single joint expert in personal injury and clinical negligence.
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