Working together for patients

A National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Doctoral Fellow in Palliative Medicine working in Yorkshire. After completing acute medical training with time spent working in the emergency department, intensive care as well as medical specialities, Stephanie chose to focus on acute palliative care. Although her clinical work covers the breadth of palliative and end-of-life care, her area of interest for research is palliative care within the intensive care unit, particularly implementation of interventions. She created the End-of-life and Palliative Care in the ICU Research Network (EPCIN) in order to share knowledge between professionals and drive collaboration.

 Dr Dan Harvey is a Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine at Nottingham University Hospitals, Hon. Professor at the University of Nottingham, and member of the UK Intensive Care Society Legal & Ethical Advisory Group. Dan has an active research interest as National Lead for Innovation & Research in Organ Donation for NHS Blood and Transplant, and joint Chief Investigator for the SIGNET study, the world's largest interventional study in organ donation. The ethical decision making framework “MORAL Balance” was codeveloped by Dan with Dr Dale Gardiner and is taught on NHSBT professional courses. 

 Amanda is an Associate Specialist in Palliative Medicine working between Jacksplace Young Adult hospice and University Hospital Southampton’s Supportive and Palliative Care team.  Amanda has a background in Paediatrics having completed most of her Paediatric training before moving to adult palliative medicine. Amanda has found her niche looking after young adults and is the medical lead for Jacksplace and has a particular interested in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy and complex neurodisability. 

I have been a Paediatric & Neonatal Surgeon in Southampton since 1994. My main surgical interest is in paediatric oncology, especially in techniques of tumour dissection.

In addition, I am an Hon. Senior Lecturer in Clinical Law at the University of Southampton since 2009, following LLB Hons & LLM.

As the Director of the Department of Clinical Law at University Hospitals of Southampton since 2009, the first such department in the NHS, I described the entity of clinical law in 2016. I have dealt with, in writing, over 1600 enquiries from clinicians of all the regulated professions. Due to this experience, I have some grasp on what clinical legal questions make clinicians uneasy. Around 130 of these enquiries have each led to a short anonymised briefing note:

http://www.uhs.nhs.uk/HealthProfessionals/Clinical-law-updates/Clinicallawupdates.aspx

I have separate regular clinical legal columns in the Bulletin of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons and the Archives Dis Childhood; and numerous chapters in medical and legal textbooks.  I have published widely in peer reviewed journals, including ‘Children of Jehovah’s Witnesses: A review of judicial responses to the refusal of blood’, 

‘Betrayal of trust in medical manslaughter’ J Crim Law, 2019 83(6)489-502 and    

I am the author of ‘Clinical Law for Clinical Practice’ CRC Press, 2020.

robert.wheeler@uhs.nhs.uk