Alison Hunt
General Nurse Expert Witness

Professional Profile
Alison Hunt is a Registered Adult Nurse with over 39 years’ NHS experience spanning acute nursing, ward leadership, clinical governance, quality assurance, service improvement and organisational quality oversight.
Her career combines extensive frontline clinical experience with senior leadership roles focused on governance, incident investigation, complaints review, quality improvement, patient safety and organisational assurance. She has significant experience reviewing clinical records, analysing incidents and complaints, identifying contributory factors, evaluating standards of care and supporting service improvement across healthcare organisations.
Alison has led quality and governance functions at both provider and system level, including NHS Trust and Clinical Commissioning Group roles. She has particular expertise in clinical governance, quality assurance, incident review, risk management, safeguarding, assurance reporting and the evaluation of nursing care standards.
She is experienced in providing objective, evidence-based analysis of clinical information and accepts instructions within her professional scope of practice relating to adult nursing care, clinical governance, quality assurance, incident investigation, complaints review, patient safety and standards of care
Specialisms
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Standards of care and professional judgement (adult nursing)
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Incident and complaints review
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Case note analysis
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Evidence analysis
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Clinical governance
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Quality assurance
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Root cause analysis
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Contributory factor analysis
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Risk management
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Escalation and action planning
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Safeguarding adults and vulnerable patient care
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Assurance reporting and documentation
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Independence, objective professional opinion
