Ms Evette Gillespie

Evette Gillespie is a Triage & Streaming Nurse with Maddison Medical Nursing Agency, a role she has held since 2021, and an expert witness. She also practises as an Aesthetic Practitioner with Amicus Clinical Group.

Her principal clinical expertise spans accident and emergency nursing, urgent and primary care, telephone and face-to-face triage, complex case management, custody healthcare and forensic nursing. She also has specialist experience in safeguarding, mental health assessment, chronic disease management, minor illness and injury assessment, and aesthetic nursing.

Evette has more than 12 years of nursing experience across emergency departments, urgent care services, primary care, custody healthcare and community settings. Her current practice involves rapid patient assessment and triage, clinical decision-making and the identification and escalation of risk. She has experience managing complex caseloads and acutely unwell patients, with a strong focus on safeguarding and patient safety.

Her wider clinical background includes community case management, where she has coordinated multidisciplinary care for patients with complex needs, as well as senior operational experience within urgent care. She has also developed expertise in the assessment and management of acute mental health presentations and detainees experiencing substance withdrawal.

Evette Gillespie commenced medico-legal practice in 2023 and accepts instructions on behalf of both Claimants and Defendants. Her practice encompasses Clinical Negligence, Personal Injury, Coroner’s Inquests and Professional Regulatory / Fitness to Practise matters, as well as cases concerning custody healthcare.

Her medico-legal expertise is particularly relevant to cases involving emergency and urgent care, including rapid assessment, triage, escalation of care, safeguarding, clinical decision-making and the management of acutely unwell patients. She also draws on her community case management experience when considering complex care needs and multidisciplinary care provision. Her instructions can involve opinion on breach of duty and causation, condition and prognosis, care requirements, equipment needs, loss of services and immediate needs, alongside screening and inquest reporting.

Evette’s clinical interests centre on the assessment and management of patients presenting across urgent and primary care settings. Her practice involves telephone and face-to-face triage, where she assesses presenting symptoms, identifies clinical risk and determines appropriate escalation or onward care. She has particular expertise in minor illness and injury assessment, the management of acute presentations and the recognition of deteriorating or higher-risk patients.

Her practice also encompasses mental health assessment, safeguarding, medicines management and chronic disease management. Within custody healthcare, her specialist interests include the assessment and management of detainees presenting with acute mental health needs or substance withdrawal. Alongside this, Evette practises in aesthetic nursing, undertaking treatments including botulinum toxin and dermal fillers. Across these areas, her work is underpinned by patient assessment, risk management and clinical decision-making, with a focus on identifying individual needs and ensuring safe and appropriate care.