Thorrun Govind

Thorrun studied pharmacy at King’s College London, completing her pharmacy pre-registration training in community pharmacy. As a practicing community pharmacist she is a strong advocate for healthcare and healthcare professionals across traditional and social media. In 2018 she was named ‘Young Pharmacist of the Year’ by Pharmacy Business Magazine and awarded a ‘Pharmacy Champion’ Award by Greater Manchester Local Practice Network. She is the current chair of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society in England.

Thorrun studied for her Graduate Diploma in Law, full time whilst working as a pharmacist. She subsequently studied for her Legal Practice course and MSc in Law, Business and Management, attaining a distinction.

As a qualified and practicing healthcare professional, she has first-hand experience of operating in a challenging environment whilst striving to provide excellent care to patients.

Main areas of expertise

• healthcare advisory work
• inquests

Qualifications

• Higher Rights (Civil), 2021
• LPS MSc Law, Business and Management, 2019
• Graduate Diploma in Law, 2018
• Master of Pharmacy, 2015

Professional Memberships

• Law Society
• Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers
• General Pharmaceutical Society, Registered Pharmacist
• Royal Pharmaceutical Society

“Ms Govind possesses wonderful court craft skills, she is a delightful advocate, able to identify the key issues and address the points with well structured, relevant questions.  Her manner showed the necessary respect to the proceedings while fully representing her clients interests.  Simply put, Ms Govind’s court room persona and command of the case should be an example to all other advocates.”– Coroner in the Inquest touching the death of SC.

‘Ms Govind has appeared before me on a number of occasions in various inquests. The most recent inquest was a medical death with multiple clinical inputs over a considerable period of time with multiple possible causation avenues to explore. During the course of the inquest Ms Govind demonstrated a thorough understanding of her witnesses evidence, how these related to the overall clinical picture and a thorough knowledge of where the relevant entries were in the medical records to support her witnesses. From the interaction in court between Ms Govind and her client, it was clear that there was a good working relationship and the witnesses understood their role and the inquest process.  Ms Govind demonstrated a clear understanding of the scope of an inquest, the points that the clinicians needed to convey to the Court and how these should be most appropriately addressed in response made to questions raised by the family’s advocate.’– HM Senior Coroner

“As a practicing Healthcare Professional and Solicitor, Ms Govind is in a unique position to succinctly understand the issues that arise in the healthcare setting and balance this in context with the Coronial Process.  Ms Govind is able to quickly identify regulatory risks to a healthcare organisation and provide appropriate advice to address these.  Ms Govind’s excellent expertise and confident manner gives a high level of  assurance to an organisation that their interests are being represented to the highest standard.” – Legal Services Manager at an NHS Trust