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Welcome to Medical Law Matters podcast, a legal podcast from our Medical Law Group featuring conversations with leading guest speakers. Join Partner and Head of UK Medical Law Rob Tobin as he covers topics ranging from advance care planning, the Court of Protection, medical treatment decisions and medical law statutes.
This podcast is also available to listen and subscribe to on Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple.
This podcast features sensitive content around medical conditions and treatment discussions.
Episodes
24 October 2024
Episode 1: advance care planning (part 1)
In episode one of a two-part series on advance care planning, Rob is joined by Dr Zoe Fritz. Together, they dive into the fundamentals of advance care planning, exploring patient autonomy, choice, and the importance of clinician-patient conversations.
Host
Rob is Head of Kennedys medical law group and acts for NHS Trusts and NHS Resolution on some of the most sensitive and challenging cases, involving emergency treatment decisions, mental health and the treatment of vulnerable people, including children.
Rob sits on the Intensive Care Society’s Legal Ethical and Advisory Group as their legal advisor and during the COVID-19 pandemic, Rob was the legal advisor to the National Emergency Critical Care Committee for the UK’s critical care COVID response, which reported directly to SAGE and the Government and was instrumental in formulating many of the key guidance papers on the NHS’s response to the pandemic, including those relating to mental health and capacity. He also sits on the Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Clinical Ethics Advisory Group.
