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Anna Walsh

Partner

Contact
CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP
Cannon Place
78 Cannon Street
London
EC4N 6AF
United Kingdom
Languages English, Spanish

Anna is a Partner in CMS’ Insurance and Reinsurance Group and specialises in defending medical malpractice claims of the highest complexity and value and advising on medical malpractice insurance coverage. She was previously a NHS Resolution Partner and has a specialist interest in resolving disputes where multiple parties (often NHS and private) are involved in the delivery of healthcare services and advises clients on protecting their interests by ensuring appropriate indemnity arrangements are in place in those circumstances.

Anna’s experience means she can support health and social care clients with safety, learning and risk management to help them minimise their clinical risks and CMS’ full service capability allows her to support these clients with any legal challenge they may face including Coroner’s inquests, criminal, regulatory or disciplinary investigations or prosecutions and CQC regulation. Anna has experience in advising health and social care providers on expansion into the UK market and at CMS can support UK providers looking to expand into other jurisdictions. 

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Relevant experience

  • Successful defence of claims at trial involving leg amputation surgeries (Baker v Epsom & St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust [2015] EWHC 1011 (QB) and Basile v (1) Croydon Health Services NHS Trust (2) Dr J O Salerno (2017).
  • Defence of novel fatal claim brought in English civil proceedings involving criminal proceedings in another European jurisdiction.
  • Wrote a comprehensive White Paper for a large US healthcare provider on medical malpractice law and the indemnity market in England following their expansion into the UK market.
  • Supported NHS Resolution in the early stages of its Early Notification Scheme, investigating specific brain injuries at birth for the purposes of determining if negligence caused the harm and considering early quantum investigations.
  • Defence of sporting organisation in a claim arising from allegedly negligent clinical management of an elite athlete following a head injury during practice, securing a discontinuance for the organisation.
  • Advised on numerous claims arising from gender reassignment treatment and surgery.
  • Supported a hospice following the death of a service user on instructions from their insurers across multiple investigations and proceedings including a police investigation, an inquest, a CQC investigation and prosecution and civil claims brought on behalf of the Deceased’s estate and by alleged secondary victims.
     
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Education

  • 2011 LPC College of Law Bloomsbury
  • 2010 LLB Law with Spanish, University of Sheffield
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