NHS Early Notification Scheme: An examination of how the scheme is operating in practice

News article published on: 23rd April 2020

Jodi Newton of our Clinical Negligence Department, as a specialist solicitor in birth and child brain injury cases, was invited by APIL (the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers) to write an article about the NHS Early Notification Scheme which is a procedure to investigate incidents where babies have suffered potentially serious brain damage at or around the time of their delivery. She discusses how the scheme operates in practice and sets out her hopes for improvements and points of concern.  Her full article is here