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Charlotte Wells
Director, Nurse Expert Witness
In your opinion, what are the positives of working with Charlotte Wells & Co?
We are a strong team. We create many opportunities to share our experience with each other and to develop our practice as expert witnesses. This helps to minimise working in isolation and broadens our knowledge. As a company we continue to grow in both size and experience and we are proud to have recently been accepted as a Corporate Partner with the Expert Witness Institute; this recognizes our commitment to providing excellent training and professional development to every expert that works with Charlotte Wells & Co.
What would you or others say are your strongest skills?
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Working within my area of expertise, which is based on many years of community and palliative care nursing.
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Continuing development of my expert witness skills; undertaking regular training.
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Lecturing counsel and solicitors in my field of expertise.
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Giving evidence in the High Court
Tell us about your nursing experience
I worked in hospital, nursing home and day hospice settings before becoming a district nurse, a role I enjoyed and I felt privileged to care for people in their own homes. I was particularly passionate about caring for terminally ill patients, but often found that there was not enough care available to enable them to be safely cared for at home as they approached the end of their lives. This inspired me to set up a Hospice at Home service, Shipston Home Nursing, which was launched in 1997. The purpose of this service, which has depended on mostly charitable funding, was to ensure that there was adequate nursing care available to enable terminally ill patients who wished to stay at home to do so, and to support their families in providing their care.
Your proudest professional moments
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Setting up Shipston Home Nursing.
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I have worked on many very complex and sad cases in my professional career as an expert witness. One case related to a lady whose parents both died of mesothelioma, leaving her as main carer for her Downs Syndrome brother. She then also died of mesothelioma and her three sons, all in their 20s, then took over the care of their uncle. The case settled with provision of excellent residential care for the gentleman with Downs Syndrome.
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Speaking to the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers at their annual conference on Asbestos.
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Being accepted as a Corporate Partner of the Expert Witness Institute.
What do you enjoy doing when you are not working?
Gardening, tennis, cooking, and travel, all of which I enjoy doing with my family and friends.
FEBRUARY 2022
Charlotte Wells & Company are delighted to announce that we have been approved as a Corporate Partner by the Expert Witness Institute.
The EWI Corporate Partner scheme aims to recognise organisations which have been able to demonstrate that they check the quality and compliance of expert reports and ensure systems are in place to keep their team up to date with training as well as identify and resolve any issues and poor practice.
Simon Berney-Edwards, Chief Executive Officer of EWI, said: “We are pleased to confirm Charlotte Wells & Co’s status as one of our Corporate Partners. The Membership Committee were particularly impressed by the organisation’s commitment to training for Experts and ongoing CPD. We are delighted to have them on board as one of our Corporate Partners.”
Charlotte Wells, Director, said “We are delighted to be approved as an EWI Corporate Partner. The professional support, training and resources offered by the EWI will enable our expert team to develop their practice further and to continually reflect and improve the quality of our reports.”
Charlotte Wells & Company are Nurse Specialists in Cancer Care Reports. Our team of experienced nurses provide independent expert witness services and medical legal reporting across the UK & Ireland.
For further information please contact: Sonia Wain
sonia.wain@charlottewells.org | 07871 655312