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Rebecca Taylor-Onion

Weightmans
Rebecca is a Principal Associate solicitor in the healthcare team at Weightmans based in the Leeds office. She has over 13 years’ experience representing NHS trusts and NHS Resolution in clinical claims, including high value and complex birth injury and neurological claims. She also specialises in indemnity issues. Rebecca works closely with NHS Resolution to support delivery of its strategic priorities, having spent 12 months working for NHS Resolution as a Policy and Strategy Manager in 2022.

Practice Area

Panel

  • Contributing Author

Qualified Year

  • 2010

Experience

  • NHS Resolution (2021 - 2022)
  • Browne Jacobson LLP (2008 - 2021)

Membership

  • The Law Society - Leeds

Qualifications

  • BA Hons Oxon (Modern Languages) (2003)
  • LLB (2007)

Education

  • University of Oxford (2003)
  • University of Law (2007)

1 Contributions by Rebecca Taylor-Onion

A Lawyer’s Guide to Using NICE Guidance in Clinical Negligence: Standards of Care, Bolam/Bolitho, Finding Guidance, and Scenarios
PRACTICE NOTES
A Lawyer’s Guide to Using NICE Guidance in Clinical Negligence: Standards of Care, Bolam/Bolitho, Finding Guidance, and Scenarios
This Practice Note sets out the role of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), clarifies its clinical guidelines, and gives examples of how to locate and use those guidelines in practice. What is the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence and what does it do? The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is an executive non-departmental public body, created under the Health and Social Care Act 2012. Initially formed in 1999 as the National Institute for Clinical Excellence, it adopted the name NICE in 2005. It issues guidance for health, public health and social care practitioners and commissioners, develops quality standards, and supplies information services spanning health and social care. NICE’s guidance is delivered across three main areas: technology appraisals clinical guidance interventional procedures What is NICE clinical guidance? NICE clinical guidance consists of evidence-based recommendations designed to enhance and advance the diagnosis and treatment of specified diseases and conditions. The guidance addresses a broad spectrum of conditions, including cardiovascular, cancer, ear, nose, throat, eye, gynaecology, obstetrics, mental health, dental, musculoskeletal and respiratory conditions, and wound management. Once published, guidance is reviewed at intervals and updated where necessary...
PI & Clinical Negligence
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