Mr Michael Hockings has done Medico-legal reporting for personal injury cases from 2004. He has prepared over 350 reports, on average 18 to 20 reports per year.

He has experience with joint reports and attending conference with the legal teams.  He has attended the Bond Solan report writing course. He recently attended an update in Medico-legal practice Westminster conference London, June 2024.

Has also attended an update in Medico-legal reporting at the British Orthopaedic Association meeting Birmingham September 2024. Presently he completing personal injury reporting for knee specific cases and medical negligence reporting for knee specific problems.

The practice is based in London seeing clients at St John and St Elizabeth Hospital. He reports also from Mount Stuart Ramsay private hospital Torbay.

Mr Michael Hockings is a Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon and has an elective knee surgery practice in the NHS at Torbay and South Devon Hospital. Also privately at Ramsay Mount Stuart Hospital Torquay, Devon.

He is also practising in general and knee specific trauma in the NHS which involves a weekly trauma list, weekly fracture clinic and attending to trauma patients in Torbay Hospital.

He routinely performs primary knee replacements and complex knee surgery including partial joint replacements, total knee placement, revision or redo knee replacements.

As well as soft tissue knee surgery such as anterior cruciate ligament reconstructions, arthroscopic meniscal cartilage repair and realignment osteotomies around the knee.

He is a fellow of the British Orthopaedic Association and member of the British Association of Surgery to the knee. He attends the annual meetings.

Areas include:

Personal injury reports for trauma relating to orthopaedic injuries.

I am a subspecialist in knee injuries, I would prefer referrals in relation to knee problems.

Knee replacements; Partial or Unicompartment knee replacements; Revision knee replacements (revising an existing knee replacement); Knee ligament reconstruction;

Anterior & posterior cruciate ligament reconstruction; Knee keyhole (arthroscopic) surgery for cartilage problems; Micro fracture for cartilage regeneration; Realignment osteotomies for knee arthritis and instability; Trauma Surgery (at Torbay Hospital).

I am not doing litigation at present but may consider this in the future.

Contact: Bethany Nicholson and Caroline Brewer, Medical Legal Secretaries, Axiomedica At the London Foot and Ankle Centre, St John and St Elizabeth Hospital, 60 Grove End Road, LONDON, NW8 9NH.

Tel: 020 7078 3800
Email:  Bethany@tlfac.co.uk
Email: Caroline@tlfac.co.uk

Torbay Hospital, Naomi Vincent, Trauma and Orthopaedics, Kitson Hall, Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust.
Tel: 01803 654969
Email: n.vincent1@nhs.net