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Amelia Newbold

Amelia Newbold

Browne Jacobson LLP, East Midlands

Work Department

Health Advisory and Litigation

Position

Amelia is a Senior Associate in our health team with many years’ experience as a solicitor resolving clinical negligence claims, acting on behalf of NHS Resolution and NHS Trusts and has also represented claimants. Amelia leads on the clinical risk management work we do for NHS Resolution, NHS Trusts and our other health clients. She is involved in a number of projects to identify the learning from claims and inquests to support wider patient safety and quality improvement work, including undertaking ‘deep dive’ analysis of inquests and claims we have concluded for individual NHS Trusts to highlight and examine specific trends and identify learning from these experiences to prevent harm and hopefully also reduce litigation.

Career

Amelia leads on the clinical risk management support we provide to NHS Resolution, NHS trusts and our other health clients. With many years’ experience as a solicitor resolving clinical negligence claims, Amelia works in close partnership with clients to identify and share learning from incidents, complaints, claims and inquests, helping to improve patient safety and also, hopefully, reduce litigation.

Amelia’s work includes undertaking thematic analyses of data from a variety of sources to highlight and examine specific trends and inform quality improvement work. Wherever possible, Amelia shares key learning more widely across organisations and where appropriate, connects organisations with similar challenges to share knowledge and develop solutions.

Amelia also provides advice on writing incident investigation reports and regularly provides training to clients on topics including supported decision making and duty of candour.

Amelia trained at Browne Jacobson LLP 2001-2003

Education

LLB (European Studies), Leicester University LPC (Merit) – 2001 Solicitor – admitted September 2003