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• “Since the surgery I am in more pain than before”

  Former Royal Marine Rod was looking forward to a happy retirement following his years of service to his country. He and his wife owned a lovely two-berth touring caravan and...

• #ACNC18 Conference fees and accommodation

  Accommodation The Hilton Metropole is fully booked now but you can book accommodation with MICE Concierge If you require two nights’ accommodation or accommodation on Thursday night. MICE Concierge will...

• #ACNC19 | Speaker’s Feedback

  Speakers and the events team will really appreciate your feedback. 31st Annual Clinical Negligence Conference Day 1 – Friday 28 June 2019   09.45 Plenary Address: Emergency Medicine Dr Roderick...

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• 32nd Annual Clinical Negligence Conference | #ACNC2020 – POSTPONED

  EVENT POSTPONED It is with great regret that, in light of the seriousness of the spread of Coronavirus, the 2020 AvMA Annual Clinical Negligence Conference has had to be...

• 35 years leading patient safety and justice

  This year it is 35 years since AvMA was formed in response to Peter Ransley’s hard-hitting drama “Minor Complications”. At the time, it was considered shocking to suggest that doctors...

• 35 years promoting patient safety and justice!

  Below is a timeline showing some of our more notable achievements. However, at the heart of everything we do are the daily conversations we have with people whose lives have...

• 2017

  December 2017 agenda December 2017 minutes September 2017 agenda September 2017 minutes June 2017 agenda June 2017 minutes March 2017 agenda March 2017 minutes...

• ACNC18 Sponsor/Exhibitor checklist

  ACNC20 Sponsor/Exhibitor checklist Please indicate your requirements for the conference mark any changes to the listing and submit this checklist as soon as possible to help us ensure you...

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• Additional sources of help

  England Local NHS complaints advocacy services can support you to make a complaint about the NHS and may help compose letters and accompany you to meetings. They are commissioned...

• A fresh approach to patient safety?

  Peter Walsh by Peter Walsh Chief Executive of AvMA June 2019 At the time of writing we are eagerly awaiting the new patient safety strategy for England from NHS...

• All change at the NMC

  The Chief Executive of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), Jackie Smith, announced in May she will be stepping down from the end of July. The move came in advance...

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• Annual reports and accounts

  Annual report and financial statements 2019-20 Previous reports Annual report and financial statements 2018-19 Annual report and financial statements 2017-18 Annual report and financial statements 2016-17 Annual report and financial...

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• AvMA needs your support this Christmas!

  AvMA would like to thank all our supporters and friends for their generosity. In this season of goodwill we ask you to help us again. AvMA is a charity sustained...

• Benefits of joining for solicitor firms

  AvMA welcomes subscriptions from claimant solicitors and barristers. If you are not a member and would like details of the subscription rates, please email Norika Patel, our Lawyers’ Service Administrator...

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• Better regulation is needed for duty of candour to fulfil its potential

  Peter Walsh by Peter Walsh Chief Executive of AvMA August 2016 AvMA’s report on how the CQC has so far regulated the duty of candour makes mostly for depressing...

• Books and publications

  AvMA history The Man Under the Clapham Omnibus Families’ stories Joshua’s Story Justice for Laughing Boy From Ward to Whitehall Josie’s Story Lions, Liars, Donkeys and Penguins Patient guides Going...

• Brain injuries at birth

  Have you recently had a baby at an NHS trust hospital and are worried that your baby suffered harm during the birth? In particular, immediately following their birth was your...

• Briefings and reports

  AvMA endeavours to provide a well-informed, patient-centred contribution to the most important policy debates affecting patient safety and justice. Some of the key ways we do this are through briefings,...

• Case studies

  Over the years AvMA has supported numerous patients and their families, affected by medical accidents, providing them with free and confidential advice and support. Here you will find a small...

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• Protected: Cerebral Palsy and Brain Injuries Cases – Ensuring you do the best for your client (2019)

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• Changes to NHS complaints due to COVID-19

  Latest advice on NHS complaints handling – England On Monday 3rd February 2021 Amanda Pritchard, NHS England and NHS Improvement Chief Operating Officer and NHS Improvement Chief Executive, issued the...

• Choosing a solicitor

  Why choose a specialist solicitor? Clinical negligence is a highly complex and specialist area of law. It requires medical as well as legal knowledge, and an empathy with the feelings...

• Clamp down on legal costs would leave many with no legal remedy

  Consultation expected imminently The long awaited consultation on controversial Department of Health proposals to impose a ‘fixed recoverable costs regime’ on clinical negligence cases is expected before the end of...

• Clinical Negligence – AvMA Medico-Legal Webinars

    Medico-legal information at your fingertips Working on a client file and looking for more information to assist you with your case? AvMA’s medico-legal webinars give you immediate access...

• Clinical Negligence: Human cost of avoidable NHS errors outweighs financial cost

  By Potter Rees Dolan Solicitors October 2019 This blog was first published on Potter Rees Dolan’s website and the original can be seen here. For over 20 years Potter Rees...

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• Complaints about NHS or private healthcare

  If you believe something has gone wrong with the healthcare provided to you or a loved one, it is almost always best to discuss your concerns with the medical...

• Conferences & Events

    AvMA provide top quality, varied and topical conferences, webinars and events for all your training, development and networking needs within the medico-legal and healthcare fields. Current event details...

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• COVID-19

  General advice on Covid 19 and related issues The UK has one of the safest and best healthcare systems in the world. Coronavirus Disease or Covid-19 as it is often...

• CQC Deaths Review underlines urgent need for action over NHS investigations

  In December the Care Quality Commission (‘CQC’) published its review of the investigation of deaths in the NHS. The report is a damning indictment of how the NHS identifies, reports,...

• Cutting compensation for those maimed by the NHS would be ‘hideously unfair’

  Peter Walsh by Peter Walsh Chief Executive of AvMA February 2018 The front page of the Daily Telegraph – “Cut payouts for NHS blunders or the NHS will go...

• Department of Health publishes plans to cap costs in clinical negligence cases

  The long-awaited consultation on capping costs in clinical negligence cases in England and Wales was finally published on 30th January. The deadline for responses is 1st May. AvMA has strong...

• Essential Medicine for Lawyers – online documentation

  You can either download the Essential Medicine for Lawyers documentation as a single file or download individual speaker’s presentation. Also, you can make electronic notes to your PDF files by...

• Event Management

  Cost effective, top class event management service Do you need to organise events such as conferences or workshops, but do not have the time or resource to do this...

• Feedback and complaints

  Feedback about our service We really welcome your feedback about our services and other work including suggestions on how we could improve. Please complete a feedback form, write in, email...

• Find a solicitor

  If you want legal advice about a potential clinical negligence claim we strongly recommend that you use a specialist medical negligence solicitor accredited by AvMA. We only accredit solicitors who...

• Fixed costs ‘premature and ill-informed’

  AvMA and eight other patients’ charities have signed an open letter calling on Jeremy Hunt to reconsider plans to impose fixed costs in clinical negligence. The letter, published in the...

• Fixed recoverable costs proposals for clinical negligence

  In 2017 the Department of Health consulted on controversial proposals to limit the legal costs that solicitors can recover when they win cases with low financial damages on behalf of...

• Frequently asked questions

  Why aren’t all specialist clinical negligence solicitors listed? Only solicitors who have been accredited by AvMA as members of our specialist clinical negligence panel are included in Find a Solicitor*....

• Frequently asked questions

  What relationship does AvMA have with lawyers? AvMA sees lawyers as an invaluable resource for injured patients and their families to help achieve justice. AvMA promotes good practice by lawyers...

• Get involved

  It’s National Pro Bono Week and we want to take this opportunity to say THANK YOU to all of our Lawyers Service members who volunteer for us, whether that is...

• Harmed patient pathway

  AvMA and the Harmed Patients Alliance have launched a campaign calling on the NHS to agree a “Harmed Patient Pathway” – a nationally agreed range of support that patients or...

• Health Service Safety Investigations Bill published

  The government has launched its draft Health Service Safety Investigations Bill despite strong concerns from AvMA and other patient safety groups that the legislation will prevent patients and families from...

• Help and advice

  We understand how bewildering it can be when you or a loved one believe you have suffered injury following medical care. Click here to see our guide to the services...

• Hints and tips: Writing a complaint letter to the NHS

  It is not unusual to feel confused and uncertain when you believe something has gone wrong with the healthcare provided to you or a loved one. You have a statutory...

• History of AvMA

  AvMA was originally established in 1982 as Action for the Victims of Medical Accidents following public reaction to the television play Minor Complications by AvMA’s founder Peter Ransley. Read Peter’s...

• Information for Experts

  AvMA guidelines and communications Acting as an expert or professional witness – Academy Medical Royal Colleges – May 2019 Experts Newsletter 2020 Experts Newsletter 2019 Experts Newsletter 2018 Experts Newsletter...

• Inquests

  The loss of a loved one can be one of the most difficult things you have to deal with and this experience can be made even worse if you...

• Is criminal prosecution of doctors harming patient safety?

  Barbara Ross By Barbara Ross AvMA trustee, former professional nurse and a member of NHS England’s primary care patient safety group May 2016   Welcome to our second guest...

• Is the Government trying to bury bad news?

  By Peter Walsh Chief Executive, Action against Medical Accidents September 2020 Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Health Secretary Matt Hancock Is the Government oblivious to the avoidable harm caused to...

• Jayne completes the Mourne Wall Walk and raises £1,470 to support AvMA’s patient safety work

  Jayne and her friends on the walk The Mourne Wall Walk in Northern Ireland is not for the fainthearted. Covering 22 miles and taking in seven mountains, this gruelling...

• Just culture

  “Just culture” is rightly, a much-used phrase in patient safety and a major theme in the patient safety strategy for England and all the UK countries. However, there is no...

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• Lawyers’ Newsletter

  AvMA’s Newsletter is published three times a year and articles relating to legal practice and procedure are encouraged from solicitors and barristers alike. The Newsletter is intended to be a...

• Lawyers’ Service

  AvMA provides a range of specialist services and benefits for barristers and claimant solicitors who work in the field of clinical negligence. Lawyers can join for an annual fee. If...

• Learning from deaths guidance a step in the right direction

  In July, NHS England published new guidance for NHS trusts on how to engage with families and carers whose loved one has died. AvMA was closely involved in the consultation...

• Learning from deaths – families demand more than just ‘guidance’

  AvMA is taking part in NHS England’s ‘Learning from Deaths’ programme, which amongst other things will be producing ‘guidance’ for NHS trusts on how they involve families in investigations and...

• Legal Updates and Cases

  As part of our ongoing commitment to improving our services to lawyer service members we have introduced this page to provide practising lawyers with ease of access to key cases;...

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• London, South, East and Overseas LSGs

    To view the presentations , you will need to register on the site via the link below if you have not previously done so. Otherwise sign in. How to...

• LSGs

  AvMA are pleased to be bringing you remote Lawyer Service Group “meetings”. For anyone who is new to Lawyer Service you may find the following points helpful: 1. The LSG...

• Mediating clinical claims: a mediator’s eye view

  By Tony Allen Allens Mediate “I’m so glad I said what I did, and about the way I said it. I could show them how strongly I feel about the...

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• Protected: Medico-Legal Issues in Cardiology, Cardiac & Vascular Surgery

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• Protected: Medico-Legal Issues in Diabetes – e-documentation

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• Protected: Medico-Legal Issues in Diabetes – online documentation

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• Protected: Medico-Legal Issues in Neurosurgery and Neurological Disease

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• Protected: Medico-Legal Issues in Oncology – online documentation

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• Protected: Medico-Legal Issues in Orthopaedic Surgery – online documentation

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• Protected: Medico-Legal Issues in the Care of Older People

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• New client form

  Before contacting us, please try our self-help guides, which contain clear and straightforward guidance. If you still need to contact us after reading the self-help guides, please read the following...

• New research on openness in the NHS—and a chance to contribute to the focus of the study

  A new research study, led by the University of Leicester in collaboration with Sheffield and Cambridge universities, aims to look at progress made in the NHS towards becoming more open...

• NHS and social care past the tipping point

  The Care Quality Commission (CQC) published its ‘State of Care’ report 2017/18 in October and it paints a worrying picture of the state of health and social care in England...

• North, NW, Scotland LSGs

  To view our presentations , you will need to register on the LSG site via the link below if you have not previously done so. Otherwise sign in with your...

• One-off Expert Referral Service for Non-Members

  AvMA has an acclaimed Expert Referral Service. Firms who subscribe annually to AvMA’s Lawyers’ Service can make unlimited requests for experts. If you would like more details of the service,...

• Partners for Patient Safety

  Partners for Patient Safety is AvMA’s corporate membership scheme which is open to companies and public bodies. It is a brilliant way for organisations to align themselves with the...

• Patient-led haemochromatosis project wins Patient Safety Learning award

  Peter Walsh (centre) with Yvonne Francis and Neil McClements Congratulations to Neil Clements, Yvonne Francis and Haemochromatosis UK, who have won the inaugural Patient Safety Learning/AvMA award for “engaging patients...

• Patient safety

  AvMA has played a huge role in moving patient safety higher up the agenda, but so much more remains to be done. As the only UK patients’ charity specialising in...

• Patient safety alerts

  Patient Safety Alerts are official notices issued by NHS England/NHS Improvement which give advice or instructions on how to prevent specific types of incidents which are known to occur in...

• Patient safety alerts

  Patient safety alerts are official notices issued by NHS England which give advice or instructions to NHS bodies on how to prevent specific types of incidents which are known...

• Patient Safety Learning Conference 2018

  26th September 2018, London Download Speaker’s Presentations Patient Safety Incidents as a Catalyst for Change: Kevin’s Story Margaret Murphy Keynote Speech – Sir Liam Donaldson ‘Learning from Morecambe Bay &...

• Patient safety resources

  Kindly supported by our platinum Partners for Patient Safety corporate member Please choose from the side menu to access some of the resources or services we recommend to anyone working...

• Patients and lawyers unite to offer ministers solutions to clinical negligence ‘fixed costs’ controversy

  AvMA, the Law Society and the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers have jointly agreed suggested terms of reference for a working party to reduce legal costs in clinical negligence cases...

• Patients for Patient Safety

  Patients for Patient Safety is AvMA’s network of patients and families who share our passion for seeing improvements in patient safety and the way that people affected by avoidable harm...

• Privacy & cookies

  PRIVACY NOTICE – Action against Medical Accidents (AvMA) (Last updated: 11 May 2018) THE SHORT VERSION At AvMA we are committed to protecting your privacy. If you have contacted AvMA...

• Rapid Resolution and Redress scheme to go forward

  The Department of Health has published a summary of consultation responses to its consultation earlier in 2017 on a ‘Rapid Resolution and Redress Scheme’ for babies with serious brain damage...

• Rapid response and redress scheme for severe avoidable birth injury

  The Department of Health consultation on these proposals closes on 26th May. These are radical proposals and we would urge everyone with an interest in severe birth injuries to respond....

• Rapid Response and Redress scheme has potential but needs radical changes

  The Department of Health’s consultation on proposals for a Rapid Response and Redress scheme for brain damaged children in maternity cases in England closes on 26th May. The scheme has...

• Read AvMA’s blog

  Is the Government trying to bury bad news? by Peter Walsh, AvMA Chief Executive, September 2020 Is the Government oblivious to the avoidable harm caused to non-COVID patients as...

• Regulating the duty of candour

  In August 2016 AvMA published its first report on how the Care Quality Commission (CQC) had been regulating the statutory duty of candour. The study showed that CQC inspections of...

• Remember us in your Will

  AvMA is completely independent and relies on the generosity of our supporters to enable us to carry out our vital work. By leaving a donation in your Will, you...

• Report a patient safety incident

  You can report patient safety incidents to the relevant regulator. Please note that using these reporting mechanisms will not result in an individual response but will provide evidence to inform...

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• Representing Families at Inquests – online docs

  You can either download the Representing Families at Inquests: A Practical Guide conference online documentation as a single file or download the individual speaker’s presentation. Also, you can make electronic...

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• Request for Experts

  It is often said that the success or failure of a clinical negligence claim is determined by the quality of the medical expert/s and the evidence they give. AvMA maintain...

• Requires improvement

  When AvMA successfully campaigned for a statutory duty of candour in 2014, it marked an historic advance in patients’ rights and patient safety. So it is concerning to find that...

• Robbie’s Law

  Robbie Powell AvMA’s campaign was also called “Robbie’s Law” with the permission of the family of Robbie Powell, whose family have done more than anyone to raise awareness of the...

• Saving lives threatened by COVID19 is rightly a priority, but many more can be saved by improving patient safety

  Peter Walsh By Peter Walsh, Chief Executive at Action against Medical Accidents April 2020 On behalf of all of us at AvMA, I would like to state our best wishes...

• Self-help guides

  AvMA’s self-help guides have been written by experts to help guide you through the process of taking action following a medical injury. In clear and straightforward language, they set out...

• Sitemap

  (Not the) ACNC #ACNC19 | Speaker’s Feedback #ACNC2020 Speaker’s Checklist 31st Annual Clinical Negligence Conference – Online documentation About us Purpose and values History of AvMA How it all...

• South West, Midlands, Ireland LSGs

    To view the presentation , you will need to register on the site via the link below if you have not previously done so. Otherwise sign in. How to...

• Speakers, trainers and consultants from a patient/family perspective

  Patients and their loved ones with lived experience of avoidable harm can play an invaluable and powerful role in supporting or leading work on patient safety. We have created this...

• Specialist Clinical Negligence Panel

  For revised application requirements during lockdown: Covid-19 Amendments to AvMA Specialist Clinical Negligence application requirements Are you or members of your team ready for AvMA accreditation? As an independent patient...

• Specialist clinical negligence solicitors

    As with any other source of professional help, we believe it is better to use a solicitor who is independently accredited as a specialist in her/his field. That is...

• Specialist independent investigations of maternity incidents welcomed

  The Department of Health has announced that it will fund the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB) to conduct specialist independent investigations of stillbirths, neonatal deaths and brain injury at childbirth....

• Sponsorship & Exhibition Opportunities

  Sponsoring or exhibiting at AvMA’s events offers the ideal way to reinforce your company’s brand, create new business opportunities and maintain customer interface with existing clients. AvMA currently has the...

• Support AvMA when you shop at Amazon

  AvMA has joined the Amazon Smile programme. If you buy anything on Amazon you can now raise money for AvMA at the same time at no cost to yourself. Amazon...

• Terms and Conditions of Booking

  1 – CONFIRMATION OF BOOKING 1.1 Online event confirmation will be sent by email. Login details will be sent 24 hours prior to the online event. It is the responsibility...

• The AvMA helpline

  Please note the helpline is closed on Good Friday (2nd April ’21) and Easter Monday (5th April ’21) Thank you AvMA Helpline number: 0845 123 2352 Monday to Friday...

• The current legal duty of candour

  Guest blog by Will Powell Robbie’s Law Trust April 2016 Welcome to the first of our guest blogs. This month’s blog is by Will Powell, father of Robbie Powell who...

• The Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch: Glass half full or half empty?

  Peter Walsh by Peter Walsh Chief Executive of AvMA June 2016 The much trumpeted Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB) came a step closer to becoming a reality with the announcement...

• The Lawyers’ Service Team

  Lisa O’Dwyer, Director of Medico-Legal Services, qualified as a solicitor in 1993 and specialised in claimant clinical negligence claims before joining AvMA in March 2009. Lisa was appointed Director of...

• Tom Bell

  About me My name is Tom Bell. I am an ethics consultant and founder of HIPSS, Honesty & Integrity in Public Sector Services, and author of Lions, Liars, Donkeys and...

• Two reports challenging failings in the current health safety management system

  Welcome to our guest blog. This month’s blog is from Richard von Abendorff, one of a number of Patient Public Voices on NHS Improvement’s National Patient Safety Response Advisory Panel....

• Urgent action required to prevent avoidable harm and deaths amongst non COVID-19 patients

  By Peter Walsh Chief Executive, Action against Medical Accidents June 2020 Government must urgently open up services for non-COVID patients or risk avoidable harm to thousands Many NHS hospitals running...

• Vacancies

  An exciting opportunity to make a difference in patient safety and justice New TRUSTEES wanted, plus an opportunity to become a TRAINEE TRUSTEE Action against Medical Accidents (AvMA) is the...

• What kind of workplace culture do we want?

  Welcome to our guest blog. This month’s blog is from Dame Professor Donna Kinnair, Director of Nursing Policy and Practice at the Royal College of Nursing and a Patron of...

• When will we see a genuine step-change in patient safety?

  Simon Elliman By Simon Elliman, Partner and Head of Clinical Negligence at Royds Withy King November 2019 In October this year, the Chief Inspector of Hospitals at the Care...

• “Wholly misconceived” safe space proposals rejected by Joint Select Committee

  A report published in August has rejected in the strongest terms the Government’s proposal to allow NHS trusts to investigate themselves and each other under the so-called ‘safe space’ arrangements....

Events

• (Not The) ACNC 29-30 April 2021 (online event)

  On the mornings of 29th and 30th April 2021 – when we should have been in Bournemouth for the 32nd Annual Clinical Negligence Conference (ACNC) – we will bring some...

• 31st Annual Clinical Negligence Conference

  28-29 June 2019, Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds Join us in Leeds for the 31st AvMA Annual Clinical Negligence Conference (ACNC), the event for clinical negligence specialists. The very best...

• 32nd Annual Clinical Negligence Conference, 29-30 April 2021, Bournemouth International Centre – EVENT CANCELLED

  It is with great regret that because of the ongoing situation with Covid, unfortunately the 32nd Annual Clinical Negligence Conference, which had already been postponed from June 2020 to...

• Annual Clinical Negligence Conference 2017

  The programme for AvMA’s Annual Clinical Negligence Conference (ACNC) is now available! Book your place now to attend the event that brings the clinical negligence community together to learn...

• Annual Conference Charity Bike Ride

  22nd June 1.00pm Harrogate Join us for a relaxed ride through the heart of Yorkshire Take the leisurely 30 miles route or the challenge of a 50 mile ‘tester’ All...

• AvMA ‘Gujarati Night at Hansa’s’ Leeds

  AvMA supported by Evolution Costs and Irwin Mitchell LLP offer a fantastic evening at Hansa’s Gujarati restaurant in Leeds Great food at Hansa’s Calling all clinical negligence law firms and...

• AvMA’s Medical Negligence and Access to Justice in Ireland Today (online event)

  For the first time, AvMA’s popular Medical Negligence and Access to Justice in Ireland Today conference will be taking place online, from 09.30 – 13.00 on 24 February 2021....

• AvMA 35th Anniversary Charity Golf Day

  The thirteenth AvMA Charity Golf Day will take place on Thursday 22 June 2017 at the stunning Rudding Park in Harrogate and this year it will be a special...

• AvMA Clinical Negligence: Law Practice and Procedure (online event)

  Develop your career in clinical negligence ​This is the course for those who are new to the specialist field of clinical negligence, and, for the first time, it is...

• AvMA Conference Wine Tour & Tasting (Not Golf)

  Wine Tour & Tasting in Sussex 30th June 2.30pm An alternative to the Thursday Golf Day A chance for non-golfers to kick off their AvMA conference 2016 with a bit...

• AvMA Costs Update Roadshow 2017 (Cardiff)

  A series of Roadshows will take place throughout England and Wales in October and November 2017 covering costs budgeting, essential Clinical Negligence costs judgments and cases plus exclusive hot...

• AvMA Costs Update Roadshow 2017 (Norwich) – CANCELLED

  A series of Roadshows will take place throughout England and Wales in October and November 2017 covering costs budgeting, essential Clinical Negligence costs judgments and cases plus exclusive hot...

• AvMA Costs Update Roadshow 2017 (Nottingham)

  A series of Roadshows will take place throughout England and Wales in October and November 2017 covering costs budgeting, essential Clinical Negligence costs judgments and cases plus exclusive hot...

• AvMA Costs Update Roadshow 2018 (Bristol)

  The Action against Medical Accidents (AvMA) Costs Update Roadshow is back for 2018! Hosted exclusively for Claimant Clinical Negligence practitioners and those working within the industry. A series of...

• AvMA Costs Update Roadshow 2018 (Leeds)

  The Action against Medical Accidents (AvMA) Costs Update Roadshow is back for 2018! Hosted exclusively for Claimant Clinical Negligence practitioners and those working within the industry. A series of...

• AvMA Costs Update Roadshow 2018 (Manchester)

  The Action against Medical Accidents (AvMA) Costs Update Roadshow is back for 2018! Hosted exclusively for Claimant Clinical Negligence practitioners and those working within the industry. A series of...

• AvMA Costs Update Roadshow 2018 (Newcastle)

  The Action against Medical Accidents (AvMA) Costs Update Roadshow is back for 2018! Hosted exclusively for Claimant Clinical Negligence practitioners and those working within the industry. A series of...

• AvMA Specialist Clinical Negligence Panel Meeting

  The annual meeting for AvMA Specialist Clinical Negligence Panel members provides the opportunity to meet, network and discuss the latest key developments and issues facing clinical negligence law. This year’s...

• AvMA Specialist Clinical Negligence Panel Meeting (online event)

  Booking for this year’s AvMA Specialist Clinical Negligence Panel Meeting, taking place online on the afternoon of Thursday 3rd December 2020, is now open. The programme of speakers is...

• Costs Update Roadshow 2017 (Brighton)

  A series of Roadshows will take place throughout England and Wales in October and November 2017 covering costs budgeting, essential Clinical Negligence costs judgments and cases plus exclusive hot...

• Costs Update Roadshow 2017 (Plymouth)

  A series of Roadshows will take place throughout England and Wales in October and November 2017 covering costs budgeting, essential Clinical Negligence costs judgments and cases plus exclusive hot...

• Duty of Candour – Beyond Compliance

  After a year of the statutory Duty of Candour being in force, and with updated regulations expected in April 2016, this one day conference provides an ideal opportunity for...

• Experts and Lawyers – Effective Team Working: Legal instructions and report writing

  Lawyers and experts are on the same team – lawyers need to learn to instruct properly; experts need to report in a focused and timely manner. By training lawyers and...

• Experts and Lawyers – Working Better Together, Leeds

  Evening of 23 January 2019, Irwin Mitchell Solicitors, Leeds Lawyers and experts are on the same team – lawyers need to learn to instruct properly; experts need to report...

• Experts and Lawyers – Working Better Together

  Evening of 7 November 2018, Hardwicke Chambers, London Lawyers and experts are on the same team – lawyers need to learn to instruct properly; experts need to report in...

• Great North Run 2020 – run in 2021

    We are sad to report that this year’s Great North Run has been cancelled as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Our places will roll over to the 2021...

• Great South Run 2021

  Would you like to be a part of the Great South Run in 2021? We are delighted to have some Great South Run charity places available for this fantastic 10...

• Live webinar: Mediation in Clinical Negligence Cases

  Join Paul Balen and Andrew Hannam on live webinar on the morning of Thursday 4 March via Zoom. The session will focus on Mediation in Clinical Negligence Cases. Paul Balen...

• Medico-Legal Issues in Accident & Emergency Care

  6 March 2019, Fieldfisher, London Emergency Care Services are facing intense pressures to sustain its urgent and emergency care system. With the changing NHS climate there is a vital...

• Medico-Legal Issues in Accident and Emergency Care

  5 February 2020, Slater & Gordon Lawyers, Manchester Emergency Care Services are facing intense pressures to sustain its urgent and emergency care system. CQC ‘s annual state of care...

• Medico-Legal Issues in Diabetes

  Many people with diabetes have multiple and complex health problems and, with this significant risk in mind, the potential delay or missed diagnosis of the patient can have serious...

• Medico-Legal Issues in Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery

  Leading experts will cover the key medico-legal issues arising in plastic surgery relevant to your case load. Consent issues and risk factors will be discussed and the presentations will...

• Medico-Legal Issues in Surgery (Online event)

  This event will now be taking place online from 09.45 – 13.00 on 16th and 17th September 2020, and will also be available to stream afterwards. The event has...

• Medico-Legal Issues in the Care of Older People

  Over the past 6 years there has been a 50% increase in the number of older people not receiving appropriate care, according to research published by Age UK, the...

• Medico-Legal Issues in the Care of Older People (Online event)

    This event will now be taking place online from 09.45 – 13.00 on 21st and 22nd October 2020, and will also be available to stream afterwards. Join this...

• The 32nd Annual Clinical Negligence Conference, 24-25 March 2022 (Welcome Event 23rd March), Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds

  Join us in Leeds for the 32nd AvMA Annual Clinical Negligence Conference (ACNC), the event for clinical negligence specialists. The very best medical and legal experts will ensure that you...

• The AvMA/VFS Charity Golf Day – EVENT CANCELLED

  It is with great regret that because of the ongoing situation with Covid, unfortunately the 32nd Annual Clinical Negligence Conference, which had already been postponed from June 2020 to April...

• The Human Rights Act and its Application in Healthcare

    The Human Rights Act 1998 sets out the fundamental rights and freedoms that everyone in the UK is entitled to, therefore impacting on aspects of healthcare provision, end of...

• “Our Health; Our Health Service”: does the Green Paper hail a new era for Patient Safety and Justice in Wales?

  “Our Health; Our Health Service” sets out Welsh Government’s agenda for quality and governance, following a host of high profile problems with patient safety and the aftermath of lapses...