I have undertaken medico-legal work for the last 12 years and have provided in excess of 300 reports on condition, life expectancy, prognosis, breach of duty, fitness to attend trial and causation. In May 2017 I attained an LLM in Medical Law and Ethics (with merit) from De Montfort University, Leicester, this work having been supported by my employing NHS Trust.

I was appointed as my Trust’s Lead Medical Examiner in 2019 and in the last 5 years I have personally scrutinised in excess of 4000 deaths. I am an ME member of the Royal College of Pathologists. I have additional expertise in the consenting process and the impact that the Montgomery ruling has had on this process.

I qualified in medicine (MBBS) in 1978, was awarded an MD in 1990 and was elected as a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1997. I have worked in cardiology since 1983, practicing as a consultant cardiologist since 1992, and was clinical director for cardiothoracic services in my own centre from 2014 to 2019.

I have extensive experience in general adult clinical as well as interventional cardiology. I have more than 30 years’ experience as a consultant cardiologist working in a tertiary cardiothoracic centre.

I have served on the council of the British Cardiovascular Society (BCS) and on two of its working groups examining the provision of cardiac services across the UK following devolution (published 2006), and UK guidelines for the structure and function of the multidisciplinary team process in management decision making in patients with coronary artery disease (published 2015).

Having been its past secretary, and served on the council of the British Cardiovascular Intervention Society (BCIS), I co-wrote its latest UK guidelines for good practice in Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI), published in 2015.

I have additional experience in the peer review of cardiology departments and in the assessment of individual cardiological and cardiac surgical practitioners, as well as in the processes of care itself particularly when systems appear to have failed.

This work has been on behalf of BCS, BCIS, the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery, the National Clinical Assessment Service, the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman and the Health Ombudsman Services for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Areas of expertise include:

Cardiology.
General adult cardiology.
Invasive and Interventional cardiology (angiography, angioplasty, stenting).
Consenting for cardiological procedures.