| Occupation: | Nursing Consultant | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Qualifications: | RGN, RCN
| Explanation of | Qualifications: Registered General Nurse | Member of the Royal College of Nursing Organisation: | Community Case Management Services Ltd | Address: |
Darlingscott Farm |
Darlingscott Shipston-on-Stour Warwicks CV36 4PN (View Location Map) (View Aerial Photo) Office Telephone: | 01608 682500 | Fax: | 01608 682372 | Email: |
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Health care and nursing care | Nursing negligence Nursing management and competence Disabilities arising from traumatic brain injury Cost of injury, disability and death / quantum Costs of care, housing and equipment requirements Analysis and quantification of care needs Personal care and housekeeping needs Medical and nursing care requirements Rehabilitation assessment and costing Rehabilitation in the home and in the community Maggie Sargent is a nursing care expert who in the last 15 years has received some 2,000 expert witness instructions to evaluate care for litigation purposes. She has 7 associates, who cover cases involving brain-injury, orthopaedic and general body injury, damage at birth, and mesotheslioma, as well as professional negligence liability. In these fields they liaise with medical experts, occupational therapists, and architects. In addition to personal injury litigation work the team is also involved in case managing clients who have a wide range of nursing and care needs, and can provide costs of case management reports. Maggie Sargent is a Registered General Nurse and trained at St Thomas's Hospital in London, where she worked from 1976 until 1981. She provided a recruitment service for nurses and carers, both in the UK and overseas from 1981 until 1987. In 1988 she established the UK's largest nursing and social care agency, IHG Community Services, and was Nursing Director and then Managing Director of this company. She was responsible for setting up the first partnership agency service between a Health Authority and a private nursing care agency providing private community practice. Maggie Sargent has cared for patients both in hospitals and in the community and is now employed as Nurse Adviser for IHG Community Services. She is also a member of the UK Homecare Association and the Nursing Agency Administrators' Forum at the Royal College of Nursing and is Nursing Adviser on the advisory board for Headway National. She is a member of the Brain Injury Case Management Steering Group for clients who have suffered traumatic brain injury and has undertaken consultancy projects for insurance companies, private hospitals, statutory services and voluntary organisations, looking at the specific care needs of individuals and organising care regimes She is currently a director of a national care consultancy, which among other services offers case management services for patients with profound disability. In 1997 she established a local nursing service for the community, funded by charitable donations, which provides nursing care within a patient's home. She also lectures at seminars across the country on costs of care in both the public and private sectors. She provides reports for both claimants and defendants (60% / 40% split) and has given oral evidence in the High Court in 54 cases since 1985. She has received some 100 joint instructions since January 1999, has been instructed by the CICA and has also given evidence for a number of judicial reviews. She has prepared 2,000+ reports for both claimants and defendants since 1985. She combines preparing reports with case-managing clients in the Midlands area and is part of a community rehabilitation project which provides therapy, care and general rehabilitation - finding this current experience invaluable in making assessments of costs of care. Av. no. of new instructions a year : 250 No. of reports written in last 3 years : 700 No. of court appearances in last 3 years : 20 Geographical area of work : All of the UK and Europe. Law Society: |
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