Now in its third decade, the UK’s leading clinical negligence event returns in 2025 with a focus on pre-medical care, emergency medicine, and orthopaedics. Join expert witnesses, legal professionals, and medical specialists for three days of cutting-edge insight, either in person at the Hilton Brighton Metropole or online via the APIL conference app.
Use the hashtag #APILCN25
- Expert-led sessions designed by a panel of clinical negligence specialists
- Practical strategies and insights from renowned speakers
- The premier event to stay ahead of emerging trends in clinical negligence
- A premium in-person experience in a luxurious hotel setting
- Virtual participation with seamless desktop and mobile app support
- Engaging social events to enhance networking
- Opportunities to connect with like-minded professionals
- A curated exhibition of leading industry suppliers
- Fully accredited by APIL
Topics will include*:
- Keynote address: Decision making under pressure - Dr Stephen Hearns, Consultant in Emergency Medicine and the Lead Consultant for Scotland’s Emergency Medical Retrieval Service.
- Navigating change - Challenges in clinical negligence and APIL’s response
- Emerging defendant tactics - Strategies for clinical negligence practitioners
- Paramedic medicine - Triage, timings, assessment and conveyance
- Inside the emergency department - Triage failures and systemic issues
- Orthopaedic trauma – Pitfalls of misdiagnosis and misinterpretation of symptoms
- Paediatric trauma through the lens of litigation - An overview of common occurrences
- Spinal injuries - How to strengthen breach and causation arguments
- Quantum update - Latest developments
- Foot and ankle - An overview, problematic issues and a guide to successful claims
- Microbiology matters - Fracture related infection and sepsis; and missed or delayed diagnosis
- Knee surgery – A discussion on known risks and common scenarios that give rise to a clinical negligence claims
- Prosthetics & orthotics in practice - A client’s story, the value of rehabilitation and the schedule of loss
- Upper limb and nerve injuries panel - Intervention and early rehabilitation
* Topics may be subject to change