About this event

  • Date and time Fri 4 Apr 2025 from 9:15am to 4:30pm
  • Location Royal Society of Medicine
  • Organised by Clinical Forensic and Legal Medicine, Emergency Medicine

Join us for this collaborative event hosted by the Royal Society of Medicine Emergency Medicine Section and the Clinical Forensics and Legal Medicine Section, designed to deepen your understanding of the critical intersection between emergency medicine and law. Gain essential insights and practical tools to navigate legal challenges confidently, ensuring you provide optimal care while safeguarding yourself from litigation.

This event offers unparalleled opportunities for professional development, including in-depth discussions on clinical negligence and ethical dilemmas in emergency medicine settings, a live courtroom scenario featuring the cross-examination of an Emergency Medicine Consultant by barristers, and expert analysis of key legal topics such as organ donation and landmark High Court cases. Don’t miss this chance to engage with leading medico-legal experts from across the UK and enhance your skills in tackling complex legal and ethical issues in emergency medicine.

Participants will learn about: 

  • The interface between emergency medicine and medico-legal experts 
  • The role of Barristers in medico-legal issues 
  • The role of medical experts in court

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Tickets

Standard pricing available until 03 April 2025.

Member

RSM Fellow RSM Retired Fellow RSM Trainee RSM Associate RSM Student
£96.00 £57.00 £57.00 £57.00 £30.00

Non - Member

Consultant / GP / SAS Doctors AHP / Nurse / Midwife Trainee Student
£176.00 £105.00 £105.00 £55.00

Agenda

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Registration, tea and coffee
Welcome and introduction

Dr Fleur Cantle, President, Emergency Medicine Section, Royal Society of Medicine, and David Heming, President, Clinical Forensic & Legal Medicine Section, Royal Society of Medicine

The legality of organ donation with out of hospital cardiac arrest and helicopter emergency medical services patients

Mr Dominic Summers, Consultant Transplant and Vascular Access Surgeon, Cambridge University Hospitals

Questions and answers
Current stats from NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT)

Becky Clarke, NHSBT

Questions and answers
The forensic medical examiner role

Dr Bernadette Butler, President, The Faculty of Forensic & Legal Medicine

Voting session
Tea and coffee break
Talk title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed

Questions and answers session
Inquest case 1

David Heming, Senior Coroner, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough

Lunch
Acute aortic dissections missed in the emergency department; perspectives from a relative and cardiac surgeon

Mr Graham Cooper, Trustee, The Aortic Dissection Charitable Trust, and Mrs Catherine Fowler, Trustee, The Aortic Dissection Charitable Trust

Questions and answers
Inquest case 2

David Heming, Senior Coroner, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough

"In the Witness Dock"- a live event scenario of an emergency department consultant facing a barrister

Dr Terry McLoughlin, Emergency Medicine Consultant, Royal Liverpool Hospital, and Ms Grace Forbes, Barrister

Tea and coffee break
Opiate toxicity – complications in clinical management and use of naloxone

Dr Nigel Langford, Consultant in Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics and Acute/General Physician, University Hospitals  of Leicester NHS Trust

Panel discussion
Closing remarks

Dr Fleur Cantle and David Heming

Close of meeting

Location

Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole St, Marylebone, London, W1G 0AE, United Kingdom

Registrations will close at 1:00am on 3 April 2025. Late registrations will not be accepted. 

The agenda is subject to change at any time 

If the event is recorded, we are only able to share presentations that we have received permission to share. There is no guarantee that all sessions will be available after the event, this is at the presenters and RSM's discretion. 

All views expressed at this event are of the speakers themselves and not of the Royal Society of Medicine, nor the speaker's organisations. 

This event will be recorded and stored by the Royal Society of Medicine and may be distributed in future on various internet channels. 

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