CILEX President, Conference Chair
Sara is a senior leader in the NHS and a qualified CILEX Fellow, with over a decade of experience in healthcare law.
She has a reputation for being resilient, driven and tenacious in improving performance and efficiency within her portfolios. Sara trained as a fellow at Hill Dickinson LLP in London, specialising in clinical negligence litigation before moving to the NHS to contribute to improving patient safety from learning from legal claims.
She now heads up the Covid-19 Public Inquiry team across Barts Health NHS Trust and Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trusts (BHRUT), in addition to heading up Legal Services at BHRUT. Her area of expertise is clinical negligence litigation with a secondary interest in inquests and advisory work, as well as strategic change management and performance improvement.
Prior to this, Sara was in senior leadership at NHS Resolution, an arm's length government body, pro-actively investigating high value, emotive and complex brain injuries in maternity on a national level with a focus on learning. Coming from a disadvantaged background herself, Sara is passionate about equal access to justice, social mobility and ensuring that the legal profession is accessible for all, regardless of background.
Se mentors care leavers and those who have suffered homelessness pursuing a legal career and is a strong advocate for continuous lifelong learning.