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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 Rob Tobin and our team of experts as they cover 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
10 April 2025
Episode 4: the assisted dying bill
In this episode, we explore the complexities surrounding the Terminally Ill Adults End of Life Bill, commonly referred to as the Assisted Dying Bill. This proposed legislation raises fundamental questions about autonomy, medical ethics, and legal practicality.
14 January 2025
Episode 3: treatment of eating disorders
In this episode, we delve into the complex intersection of medical law and eating disorders, joined by Dr Anna Conway-Morris, Consultant Psychiatrist at the Adult Eating Disorder Service at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust.
26 November 2024
Episode 2: advance care planning (part 2)
In episode 2, Rob continues his conversation with Dr Zoë Fritz on advance care planning. Together, they delve deeper into the topic, building on part one’s foundational discussion.
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 Zoë Fritz. Together, they dive into the fundamentals of advance care planning, exploring patient autonomy, choice, and the importance of clinician-patient conversations.
Our experts
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.
Daniel is a partner based in our London office who has a broad practice advising both NHS trusts and private insurers on all aspects of healthcare law.
Daniel advises on limitation, end of life decisions, judicial reviews, consent and capacity to treatment, private and public investigations and mental health law. He regularly lectures on mental health law and capacity issues.
His practice also includes working for NHS Resolution and various medical malpractice insurers dealing with clinical negligence claims generally, defending general practitioners, plastic surgeons and orthopaedic surgeons.
