Legal Thinking RWK Goodman

Ahead of International Day of the Midwife on 5 May, Senior Associate Hannah Blackwell speaks with midwives Jenny and Frances Fraser about the challenges facing midwives today and how things have changed over years since Jenny qualified in the 1970s, including how different approaches to midwifery have changed how women are cared for during maternity.



Find out more about Hannah and her expertise in maternal injury claims on our website here: https://www.rwkgoodman.com/our-people/hannah-blackwell/

In this episode of the podcast Ali Cloak from our Inquest and Fatal claims team is joined by Deborah Coles and Aniesha Obuobie of INQUEST.

They talk about the importance of learning lessons following deaths, the challenges in seeking answers, and how their No More Deaths hopes to secure systemic change.

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You can find out more about INQUEST's No More Deaths campaign here: https://www.inquest.org.uk/no-more-deaths-campaign

And to find out more about how we help to ensure lessons are learned, visit our website:
rwkgoodman.com/injury/lessons-learned/

On this episode of Legal Thinking we're talking team moves with Martin Pratt and Holly Freuchen from our Employment team.

How can employers spot a potential team move, how can they prevent them, and when should the lawyers be called in? All this and more discussed here.

Find out more about our Employment team here:
https://www.rwkgoodman.com/business/employment-hr/

In this episode of our podcast we've brought on our very own Claire Wheatley, who's a partner in our Banking team, and Dasos Kirtsides, who's the head of healthcare at challenger bank Shawbrook Bank.

In this episode we talk the rise of challenger banks, what's changed in the market with the interest rate rises of recent years, and what the future might hold.

For more on this, make sure to read our Financial Headwinds report:
https://www.rwkgoodman.com/financial-headwinds/

This week we’ve got Carl Selby on who's a partner in our Tech sector. He came on to explain how employees who are leaving and take data are actually not only annoying their employer and doing something perhaps against their employment contract and breaching confidentiality, they're also breaching data protection law and could even be criminally liable...


Find out more about our Data Protection expertise on our website: https://www.rwkgoodman.com/business/gdpr/

Sophie Angwin-Thornes from our maternal injury team leads the podcast this week as she welcomes Dr Rebecca Moore of Make Birth Better to discuss birth trauma.

Resources mentioned on the podcast:

Make Birth Better Step by Step guide in seeking help: https://makebirthbetter.org.uk/how-can-i-find-help-for-birth-trauma

Toolkit for seeing your Healthcare Professional “I need help”: https://pandasfoundation.org.uk/i-need-help-download

Pdf summary support – add link to this once prepare (this is being prepared by Hannah as a piece of the TAC)

Peer support from Birth Trauma Association: https://www.birthtraumaassociation.org.peer-support

Find out more about our maternal injury claims expertise on our website:
https://www.rwkgoodman.com/injury/birth-injury-claims/maternal-injury-claims/

Read more about issues relating to birth trauma in our latest Team Around the Client Magazine:

https://www.rwkgoodman.com/injury/team-around-the-client/tac-10-team-around-the-client-magazine-edition-10/