Mr. Brian Capsticks

Country

England

Job title

Lawyer, CEO

Organisation

Capsticks (Healthcare Law Firm), DATIX

Email address

jbc@capsticks.co.uk

nrigby@capsticks.co.uk

Website

www.capsticks.com

www.datix.co.uk

Biography

Brian is the senior partner of Capsticks, a law firm that employs about 200 people in healthcare law. Capsticks has topped the independent league tables for healthcare or clinical negligence law every year since 1993.

In 1980/1, Brian designed a database for learning from clinical negligence claims, which has since evolved into the DATIX Risk Management software. DATIX now serves a population of over 40 million people, or about two thirds of the UK’s National Health Service,. DATIX won a Queen's Award for Enterprise in April 2005, which is the highest accolade a UK business can receive. Datix includes what is believed to be the world’s most comprehensive taxonomy for classifying incidents in healthcare and its development is currently Brian’s principal research interest.

Brian has published extensively on the subject of clinical risk management and is a frequent speaker on the conference circuit. In 1993, Brian founded the Open University Diploma In Risk and Claims Management which CAPSTICKS has run every year but one since then. Brian founded the Association of Litigation and Risk Managers ("ALARM") in 1994.

Description organisation

DATIX is the UK's leading supplier of risk management software and patient safety

CAPSTICKS is independently rated by the UK’s legal directories as London’s leading healthcare law firm. It acts exclusively for healthcare clients, including hospitals and Health Authorities, regulatory bodies, charities and independent healthcare providers.

CAPSTICKS has defended more than 20,000 claims arising from serious staff and patient safety incidents and has used this experience to develop expertise in how to reduce the number of them.

DATIX is the UK’s leading supplier of software for incident reporting and other patient safety applications. It is used by about two-thirds of the UK’s National Health Service.

ONELINER

patient safety

Progress in patient safety is likely to be achieved most effectively by the integration of standards with lessons learned from incident reporting.

Publications

patient safety

Capstick B Learning lessons from litigation for improved patient safety Clinical Risk (2004), 10, 221-226

Capstick B The future of clinical negligence litigation? British Medical Journal 2004; 328:457:60

Miller E, Capstick B Maladministration of vincristine: clinical governance failures and recommendations for prevention Clinical Risk (2003) 9, 143-148

Everson J, Capstick B The legal perspective on use of patient information for risk management purposes Clinical Risk (2003) 9, 135-138

Capstick B, Medico-legal Problems in Obstetrics in Turnbull’s Obstetrics, second edition, ed.Chamberlain, Churchill Livingstone 1995

Capstick B, Incident reporting and claims analysis, Clinical Risk (1995) Vol 1, No 5

Evolution by Necessity, Computers and Law, June/July 1995

Capstick B, Risk Limitation in Obstetrics in The Future of the Maternity Services,
ed.Chamberlain & Patel, Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists 1994

Capstick B, Risk Management in Obstetrics in Safe Practice in Obstetrics & Gynaecology: a medico-legal handbook, ed.Clements R.V., Churchill Livingstone 1994

Mason D, Edwards P, Capstick B, Litigation: a risk management guide for midwives,
Royal College of Midwives 1993

Capstick B, Hay K, Structured Settlements: Future Gains and Future Losses, International Insurance Law Review, Vol 1, Issue 8, August 1993

Capstick B The legal status of audit and risk management documents in relation to litigation in the UK, Oxford Centre for Risk Management Studies, 1993

Quality Counts - Your 12 point plan to cut the cost of claims, Capsticks 1991

Capstick B, Edwards P, Mason D, Compensation for Medical Accidents, Brit Med J 199, 302-330,

Capstick B, No Fault Compensation, British Journal of Hospital Medicine 46-135, 1991

Capstick B, Edwards P, Defensive Obstetric Practice (letter), the Lancet 338-823, 28 Sept 1991

Capstick B, Edwards P, (1990) Trends in obstetric malpractice claims, Lancet, 336, 931-932

Capstick B, Patient Complaints and Litigation, National Association of Health Authorities 1985

Capstick B, Staff Accident Claims, National Association of Health Authorities 1985