Shared Insights

Welcome to Browne Jacobson’s Shared Insights – the ultimate platform that connects leaders and professionals from across health, care and education to discuss the sector challenges and to share learning, solutions, ideas and best practice.

Shared Insights is a monthly forum that takes place over MS Teams. Each session is an hour long and focusses on a pressing issue or sector challenge. The forum is chaired by a Browne Jacobson lawyer and features a panel of guest speakers – previously we have welcomed judges, coroners (including the Chief Coroner), senior leaders from NHS Resolution, national experts, specialist lawyers, health, care and education leaders and frontline professionals.

Shared Insights is designed for those working within NHS organisations, local authorities, independent health and social care providers, those specialising in mental health and the medical malpractice insurance sector.

Our previous sessions have covered a range of key health and social care issues, including the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF), sexual safety in the workplace, improving communication with families during the inquest process, racial disparity in healthcare, compassionate leadership and culture and the challenges caused by disordered eating in education, health and social care settings. We also regularly hold a 'Coroners' Question Time' session, where attendees can pose questions to a panel of coroners from across the country.

By joining Shared Insights, you’ll be taking part in conversations that make a difference, helping you to drive change across key issues in the health, care and education landscape.

Shared Insights future events

Shared Insights past event notes

Shared Insights round up

Focus on maternity and neonatal safety

9 July 2024

"Our experienced maternity division lawyers share insights from their extensive experience of conducting high profile maternity inquests and complex and high-value maternity claims."

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Giedrius Genčas FCILEx LLM, Head of Legal Services NELFT NHS Foundation Trust

"Attending the Shared Insights meetings organised by Browne Jacobson has proven to be incredibly beneficial for our organisation. These sessions focus on relevant issues, facilitate the sharing of best practices, and offer practical solutions, especially in discussions involving coroners and inquests."

Emma Garner, Deputy Head of Legal Services University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust

"The Shared Insights Forum provides a community for sharing knowledge, experiences and learning. It is an invaluable resource for helping me to keep up to date and to navigate challenges and developments in the healthcare sector. Wherever my diary allows, I will make sure I attend these sessions, and I would encourage others to do so too."

Kathryn Fearn, Director of Legal Services Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

"The Shared Insights programme allows professionals to talk openly about key legal topics and the challenges that come along with working in an in-house legal team in the NHS. I have personally benefited a great deal and built a network of professionals who have a wealth of experience to share ideas and make improvements in our service."

Sexual safety in the workplace — how leaders can help to create a sexual safety culture

5 March 2024

"With harrowing stories of workplace abuse and harassment continuing to rise, the panel discussed: the journey towards a change in culture, responding to complaints of sexual harassment, managing overlapping police investigations and civil claims and vicarious liability."

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Giving evidence before the Family Court - a practical session

6 February 2024

"This session focused on: the types of family law cases that Browne Jacobson have experience of, how to engage with the local authority when asked to provide evidence and the expectations of the Family Court on professional witnesses."

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Preparing and delivering organisational learning evidence in the Coroner’s Court

16 April 2024

"During this session we explored the Coroner’s statutory duty to make a Prevention of Future Death Report, including practical tips on preparing organisational learning evidence for the Coroner and ensuring that your organisation is in the best position to provide assurance to the Coroner that learning has been identified and embedded following a death."

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