Joanna Trewin > Hill Dickinson LLP > Manchester, England > Lawyer Profile

Joanna Trewin

0161 817 7373 joanna.trewin@hilldickinson.com

Work Department

Healthcare.

Position

Joanna has over 18 years’ experience in advising the NHS and heads the Manchester healthcare team. Under Joanna’s leadership, the team has more than doubled in size over the last few years following significant tender and client wins.

Historically, Joanna and her team acted in high profile patient safety reviews and inquests and on the reported Court of Protection cases concerning the withdrawal of life sustaining clinical treatment, including the case of Salford Royal FT -v- Mrs P. and advice regarding withdrawal of treatment from Alfie Evans which received international press attention.

Joanna’s team also provide a niche offender health offering and act for a number of NHS and private healthcare providers in prisons.

Joanna’s team also provides advice in respect of independent homicide investigation reports to NHS England.

Joanna led the successful for tender for provision of all legal services to Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, the contract for which commenced on 20th June 2016 and has now transferred to the newly constituted Northern Care Alliance NHS Group that oversees Salford Royal NHS FT as well as Pennine. This is one of the largest NHS Groups in the country.

The teams’ key clients include: Northern Care Alliance NHS Group (covering Salford Royal and Pennine Acute), Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Warrington and Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, St Helens and Knowsley Hospitals NHS Trust, East Cheshire NHS Trust, and NHS England, as well as the following Clinical Commissioning Groups:- Manchester Central, North and South, Vale Royal, South Cheshire, East Cheshire, Oldham, Trafford and Warrington.

Career

Trained Hill Dickinson 1999; solicitor 2001; associate 2005; partner 2008.

Memberships

Manchester Law Society
Liverpool Law Society.

Education

Liverpool Bluecoat (1994); Liverpool University (1997 LLB (Hons) 2(1)); LPC, Chester (1999 Commendation).