National State of Patient Safety 2024
22/01/2025
Prioritising improvement efforts in a system under stress
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I am Head of Bevan Brittan’s NHS Health & Care market focus group and well as heading up the Bristol clinical negligence team.
I am a dual qualified barrister (previously a tenant at 1 Crown Office Row) and solicitor and my work has a particular focus on patient safety. I support NHS bodies dealing with patients harmed in the context of poor clinical care and have a particular specialism in group actions (e.g. Winterbourne View, the cohort of 265 Claimants who made allegations against a South West Obstetrician Rob Jones, and currently a very sizeable cohort of victims of sexual abuse in an NHS hospital setting). I am a frequent advocate in the Coroner’s court and this work includes representing an Interested Party in the inquests into the deaths of more than 60 women who died following treatment by Ian Paterson (jailed for 20 years in 2017 after being convicted of 20 counts of wounding).
This year I have also been involved in setting up a major maternity review in Wales which will report in 2025.
Successful trial outcomes include: Paul and another (Appellants) v Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust (Respondent); Polmear and another (Appellants) v Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust (Respondent); Purchase (Appellant) v Ahmed (Respondent)[2024] UKSC 1 (On appeal from [2022] EWCA Civ 12) This case, which all but ended the prospect of a successful secondary victim claim in a hospital setting, has been described as the case of a generation and led to a shortlisting for Litigation Team of the year at the The Lawyer Awards.
My interest in patient safety has previously led to government advisory board appointments including to the UK Advisory Panel for Healthcare Workers Infected with Bloodborne Viruses. I also work closely with the Safety and Learning team at NHS Resolution supporting their thematic review work including claims involving cerebral palsy, suicide and emergency medicine. I am a member of REAF which evolved from the BNSSG Health and Care Risk Group. The aims and purpose of REAF is to provide critical analytical thinking concerning health risk and associated ethics which may arise from strategic and operational decision making.
She's a very safe pair of hands. She's sensitive to the client needs, wise in her advice and compassionate to staff involved.
In Bristol the star is undoubtedly Joanna Lloyd – personality combined with experience and intellect ensure that for her clients she is the first port of call.
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- Developing and publishing ‘Ten years of Maternity Claims: An analysis of NHS Litigation Authority Data.’
- Successfully advised the Lewis Smithers v Taunton and Somerset NHS Trust on the case of a breach baby born with severe disabilities.
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World Patient Safety Day 2024
17/09/2024
Secondary Victim claims for psychiatric injury: How close is close...
14/11/2023
Bevan Brittan Education Lunchtime Training Webinars 2023
Patient Safety Incident Response Framework: A Panel Session
07/11/2022
A panel of experts will discuss the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework.
Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF): Insight from an...
27/10/2022
Insight from an Early Adopter of the PSIRF
World Patient Safety Day 2021
17/09/2021
COVID-19 transmission in hospitals: management of the risk
29/10/2020
A prospective safety investigation conducted by HSIB
The Paterson Inquiry – key recommendations
04/02/2020
HSIB: A step along the path towards safer care
29/06/2016
There has been considerable interest in the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB), which came into being on 1 April this...
Acquittal in first NHS Trust Corporate Manslaughter case
29/01/2016
Landmark mansaughter case against NHS Trust collapsing
Statutory Duty of Candour
26/11/2014
For NHS providers (NHS trusts and FTs) the statutory duty of candour goes live on 27 November 2014 (for independent healthcare and...
Statutory Duty of Candour
23/07/2014
The Government's latest Consultation Response sets out its revised thinking on the proposed statutory duty of candour and, in...
Jo Lloyd brings huge experience of clinical negligence work at the coal face, both as a barrister and as a solicitor advocate. She has an instinctive grasp of the subtleties of trial tactics and negotiations, which she deploys to good effect.