Geriatrics

This list shows every expert witness in the UK Register of Expert Witnesses who claims expertise in Geriatrics. Click on any expert witness to view full details. You may prefer to interactively search the Register.

Dr Gruber in SCARBOROUGH
I am the Clinical Lead for Acute Medicine and Acute Frailty. I also review complaints and author serious incident reports. Common themes are delays in the treatment of: • Sepsis • Acute kidney injuries • Chest pain • Pulmonary embolism/venous thromboembolism (VTE) • Delirium • Falls • Seizures • Complications of alcohol I manage diabetes and endocrine patients both acutely (like acute diabetic feet/DKA) and long term (conditions like diabetes, thyroid disorders, adrenal conditions, osteoporosis and hypercalcaemia).
Dr Smyth in WHITCHURCH
• General dentist, 30+ years clinical, expertise in wide range of dental treatment • 25+ years dento-legal experience • Offer a free of charge 15 minutes to check dental cases are within areas of expertise • Personal injury adult and child, clinical negligence, regulatory cases • Consultation often available within 7 days Venues at: • Liverpool • Cheshire • Manchester • Shropshire • North Wales Report for claimant, defendant, GDC, registrant, coroner, insurer, councils, NHS England and Scotlan...
Dr Vesey in NOTTINGHAM
My routine practice involves the care of people with neurological illness or injury, including acquired brain injury, MS, movement disorder, epilepsy, neurodegenerative conditions, functional conditions and neurodevelopmental conditions. I am jointly responsible for adult neuropsychology services at Nottingham University Hospitals neurosciences unit. I have undertaken medico-legal work for 29 years in criminal and civil proceedings. I have reported in cases of brain injury, dementia, fitness to plead, dissociative disorder and mental capacity. I have been instructed in employment tribunal...
Dr Pradhan in BIRMINGHAM
Psychopathology & psychiatric disorders • Trauma sequelae (psychiatry, including personal injury) • Post-traumatic stress disorder • Personality disorder • Criminal responsibility (psychiatric assessment) • Fitness to plead (psychiatric assessment) • Dangerous & risk assessment (psychiatric) • Crime victims (psychiatry) • Offender assessment (psychiatric) • Witness assessment & testamentary capacity • Criminal behaviour • Child & family cases (custody cases) • Psychiatric care & rehabilitating • D...
Dr Stevens in BRIGHTON & HOVE
General and specialist anaesthesia for major surgery • Perioperative medicine and pre-assessment of high-risk patients • Clinical negligence - anaesthetic and airway incidents • Medication errors and intra-operative adverse events • Frailty and surgical risk stratification All correspondence to: British Medical Experts, 60 Tottenham Court Road, Suite 6177a, Fitzrovia, London, W1T 2EW.
Mr Howard in SHEFFIELD
Clinical interest with 20 years' experience in expert reporting specialising in musculoskeletal physiotherapy, including assessment of orthopaedic physiotherapy & rehabilitative requirements • A special interest in personal injury, assessment of quantum for physiotherapy treatment & future needs • Review of physiotherapy treatment, medical records & correspondence • Practising Member of the Academy of Experts • Member of the Association of Medicolegal Physiotherapists • APIL & Bond Solon expert witness training • Tier 1* APIL expert...
Professor Hardman in NOTTINGHAM
Anaesthesia (general, spinal, epidural & local) • Awareness during anaesthesia • Injury & complications during anaesthesia • Patient safety • Problems with tracheal intubation • Pre-operative assessment & preparation • Post-operative care & complications • Medical negligence involving anaesthesia • Research involving anaesthesia • Anaesthetic equipment • Regional (nerve block) anaesthesia • Nerve injuries in the perioperative period • Allergic reactions during anaesthesia • Standard of care in anaesth
Mrs Bree-Aslan in SHOREHAM-BY-SEA
Nurse care • Nursing competence • Orthopaedic nursing • Tissue viability & wound care (including prevention & management of pressure injuries, leg ulcer management, wound infections, general skin care) • Elderly care • Nursing & residential home care • Home care provision
Dr Hunter in MANCHESTER
Dr Hunter accepts instructions from both claimant and defendant law firms in clinical negligence and personal injury cases, delivering clear, impartial and authoritative expert opinion on the following: • Acute medicine • General internal medicine • Geriatric medicine • Life expectancy • Stroke • Thrombectomy • Transient ischaemic attack
Dr Devine in BRISTOL
My consultant role includes both acute and more long-stay traditional geriatric and general medicine, and I have an interest in perioperative care and syncope. I have extensive experience of writing legal reports on acute medical matters, as well as more specific geriatric problems such as falls and delirium.
Dr Douglas in GLASGOW
Older people, people living with dementia, adults • Care homes and care at home • Domiciliary care, social work, older people hospitals Frailty, disability, older people, dementia, cognitive impairment, falls, pressure ulcers, food, fluid and nutrition, clinical and care governance, staffing and safe staffing, dependency, medication administration errors, adult support and protection/safeguarding, care planning and risk assessment, education and training, audit, quality improvement, quality assurance, leadership and management, person-centred practise...
Ms Lomax in MANCHESTER
Ms Lomax accepts instructions from both claimant and defendant law firms in clinical negligence and personal injury cases, delivering clear, impartial and authoritative expert opinion on the following: • Care management • Clinical risk • Critical care • General internal medicine • Nursing • Urgent care • Deteriorating patients • Pressure ulcers
Mrs Murray in MANCHESTER
Mrs Murray accepts instructions from both claimant and defendant law firms in clinical negligence and personal injury cases, delivering clear, impartial and authoritative expert opinion on the following: • Care management • Critical care • Healthcare in the community • Infection control • Nursing
Ms Toms in MANCHESTER
Ms Toms accepts instructions from both claimant and defendant law firms in clinical negligence and personal injury cases, delivering clear, impartial and authoritative expert opinion on the following: • Care management • Clinical risk • Falls • Healthcare in the community • Nursing • Safeguarding
Dr Oyewole in LONDON
Psychological trauma secondary to accident or work-related stress • Criminal cases with associated psychiatric illness • Mental Health Act work • Medical malpractice • Cases of competence in elderly individuals • Parent assessment for care proceedings
Dr Wildblood in MANCHESTER
Dr Wildblood accepts instructions from both claimant and defendant law firms in clinical negligence and personal injury cases, delivering clear, impartial and authoritative expert opinion on the following: • Acute elderly care • Acute pain management • Dementia • Geriatric medicine • Geriatrics • Heart failure • Palliative care • Polypharmacy • Cardiology in the elderly and aortic stenosis
Mrs Shepherd in COWES
In 2025, I successfully completed the Cardiff University Bond Solon Civil Expert Witness Certificate. Qualified and experienced to receive instruction in the following areas: i. Enteral (tube feeding) and parenteral/intravenous nutrition ii. Upper and lower gastrointestinal surgery, e.g. clients with a stoma and malnutrition/reduced absorptive capacity following surgery iii. Digestive diseases, diverticular disease, coeliac disease, inflammatory bowel diseases - Crohn's and ulcerative colitis iv. Dysphagia v. Neurology - head injuries, stroke, ...
Dr Shah in BARNET
I am a doctor of medicine practising for over 22 years as an NHS England hospital-based Consultant Physician and an accredited specialist in Stroke and Neurovascular Medicine, Geriatric Medicine and Adult Internal Medicine. I accept instructions as a medical expert in civil and criminal cases of medical negligence and adult safeguarding on behalf of the claimant or defendant or as an SJE. I provide expert witness and condition and prognosis reports, and am happy to attend court hearings and coroner's inquests.
Mr Mitchell in BRISTOL
• 16 years’ experience as a qualified nurse. • 9 years as an Advanced Nurse Practitioner and expert in falls and falls prevention. Significant experience and expertise in the management of deteriorating and acutely unwell patients in secondary care. Experience advising on medicolegal matters over the past 12 months. Available to advise on matters pertaining to these areas and other areas of nursing care, particularly care of the elderly and care of the acutely unwell patient. Falls - prevention • Post falls management • Managemen...
Ms Caffrey in ORKNEY
I was a police officer for 23.5 years, 17 of those years as a sergeant. I was a custody sergeant for 7 years, then proceeded to design and deliver custody officer training which gained national recognition and awards. I was head of the Cumbria police specialist training team, which delivered all custody, use of force and first aid training. As an expert witness, I have been engaged in over 600 cases. My main areas of work include: • Deaths and injuries in police custody • Use of force • Drink/drug driving custody procedures • Ligature d...
Dr Smyth in CHESTER
• General dentist, 30+ years clinical, expertise in wide range of dental treatment • 25+ years dento-legal experience • Offer a free of charge 15 minutes to check dental cases are within areas of expertise • Personal injury adult and child, clinical negligence, regulatory cases • Consultation often available within 7 days Venues at: • Liverpool • Cheshire • Manchester • Shropshire • North Wales Report for claimant, defendant, GDC, registrant, coroner, insurer, councils, NHS England and Scotlan...
Ms Sutton in MANCHESTER
Ms Sutton accepts instructions from both claimant and defendant law firms in clinical negligence and personal injury cases, delivering clear, impartial and authoritative expert opinion on the following: • Care management • Clinical risk • End of life care • Governance • Nursing • Palliative care
Dr Smyth in MANCHESTER
• General dentist, 30+ years clinical, expertise in wide range of dental treatment • 25+ years dento-legal experience • Offer a free of charge 15 minutes to check dental cases are within areas of expertise • Personal injury adult and child, clinical negligence, regulatory cases • Consultation often available within 7 days Venues at: • Liverpool • Cheshire • Manchester • Shropshire • North Wales Report for claimant, defendant, GDC, registrant, coroner, insurer, councils, NHS England and Scotlan...
Professor Dr Thompson in POOLE
Neuropsychological assessment & consultancy • Medico-legal, civil & criminal • Medical negligence • Road traffic collisions • Neurodegenerative disorders • Memory problems • Post-traumatic stress disorder • Depression • Anxiety • Client visits • Testamentary & mental capacity • Head injury • Fatigue • Brain damage • Frontal lobe damage • Carbon monoxide poisoning
Dr Smyth in LIVERPOOL
• General dentist, 30+ years clinical, expertise in wide range of dental treatment • 25+ years dento-legal experience • Offer a free of charge 15 minutes to check dental cases are within areas of expertise • Personal injury adult and child, clinical negligence, regulatory cases • Consultation often available within 7 days Venues at: • Liverpool • Cheshire • Manchester • Shropshire • North Wales Report for claimant, defendant, GDC, registrant, coroner, insurer, councils, NHS England and Scotlan...
Dr Akuji in BOLTON
Anaesthesia administration & monitoring • General anaesthesia for surgery • Regional anaesthesia techniques • Sedation for medical procedures • Perioperative pain management • Management of anaesthetic complications • Critical care medicine & intensive care units (ICU) • Anaesthetic management in special populations (e.g. paediatrics, geriatrics) • Anaesthetic pharmacology & drug interactions All correspondence to: British Medical Experts, 60 Tottenham Court Road, Suite 6177a, Fitzrovia, London, W1T 
Mr Aguiar in LIVERPOOL
Brain injury • Assessment of capacity • Neuropsychological assessment & rehabilitation • Neuropsychological assessment of dementia & other neurological disorders • Post-traumatic stress disorder • Post-traumatic stress disorder in brain injury • Criminal responsibility in brain injury • Fitness to plead • Personal injury
Dr Porter in WIGAN
I am a chartered HCPC registered physiotherapist. I accept instruction for clinical negligence and breach of duty, liability and other legal cases, EHCP appeals, HCPC investigations and prison visits. I am a physiotherapy lecturer, and I am an internationally published author, having written ten textbooks translated into eleven languages. My expertise is patient assessment and management, consent, breach of duty, ethics, rheumatology, orthopaedics and soft tissue injury management. My PhD is in rheumatology. I maintain my HCPC and CSP registrations and CPD into expert witness work. I a...
Dr Liberman in BRISTOL
I am competent to accept instructions in all aspects of general practice. I have particular interest in women's health, child health, cancer diagnosis, mental health, care of the elderly and prescribing.
Dr Ahearn in MANCHESTER
In addition to general medical on-calls covering all aspects of general and geriatric medicine, Dr Ahearn cares for older in-patients at Wythenshawe Hospital. He has specialist interests in Parkinson's disease, falls in older people, dizziness and syncope (fainting), and organises specialist clinics for patients within these areas. Dr Ahearn also performs community visits to care homes and patients' homes.
Ms Cawdry in HALIFAX
I undertake quantum care & occupational therapy reports on a wide range of injury types including, but not exclusively: • Amputation • Cauda equina • Chronic pain • Upper limb injury • Incontinence • Injuries from general medical/surgical conditions • Oncology • Orthopaedic conditions • Spinal injury • Strokes • Visual impairment • Sensory loss • Stoma care. I am happy to undertake initial telephone discussions with solicitors to identify if my clinical experience meets their client's needs.
Professor Payne-James in SOUTHMINSTER
Accident • Assault • Injury • Trauma • Wounding • Personal injury • Torture • Tasers • Medical negligence • Road Traffic Act (drink/drug drive fitness) • Drug & alcohol misuse • Clinical forensic medicine • Fitness to detain • Fitness to be interviewed • Forensic & legal medicine • Deaths in custody • Harm in custody • Miscarriages of justice • Death investigation • Sexual assault • Death in custody • Care in custody • Police complaints • Nutrition &...
Dr Bint in WOKING
I have been an NHS GP for 20 years. As a GP, I have worked in a variety of settings, including as a GP Principal (for 8 years), locum work in practices (for 4 years), out-of-hours care, urgent GP care (including within A&E), telephone triage, covering a cottage hospital, looking after patients in nursing and residential homes, and looking after private patients. I currently work as a freelance GP.
Mrs Barnes in LEICESTER
Industrial respiratory disease (mesothelioma, asbestos-related illness and silicosis) • Cancer, oncology, chemo/immuno and radio therapy treatments • Traumatic brain injury • Spinal cord injury • Cauda equina • Polytrauma • Amputation • Palliative care and end-of-life care • Long-term conditions and chronic illness (multi organ failure, lung disease, dementia, diabetes, asthma, coronary care, renal disease/dialysis and COPD) • Life-limiting illness • Ostomies • Mesh surgery injury • Neurological conditions • Psycholo...
Dr Riddington in ALCESTER
General anaesthesia • Cardiac anaesthesia • Critical care medicine • Peri-operative care • Peri-operative risk management
Dr Kishore in MANCHESTER
Dr Kishore is involved in the delivery of high-quality hyperacute stroke care, including thrombolysis and mechanical thrombectomy. He has a special clinical interest in the diagnosis and management of acute cerebrovascular conditions such as acute ischaemic stroke, acute intracerebral haemorrhage, carotid and vertebral artery dissections and TIAs. He is also interested in secondary prevention, understanding the aetiopathogenesis of stroke and the evaluation of embolic strokes of unknown source.
Dr Kitchen in MANCHESTER
Dr Kitchen accepts instructions from both claimant and defendant law firms in clinical negligence and personal injury cases, delivering clear, impartial and authoritative expert opinion on the following: • Acute management • Anaesthesia • Anaesthetics • Conscious sedation • Critical care medicine • Intubation • Regional anaesthesia • Sedation • Trauma
Dr Hambly in OXFORD
Anaesthesia for all surgical procedures except cardiac surgery & obstetrics • Airway management & intubation • Resuscitation • Awareness • Anaphylaxis • Preoperative assessment • Postoperative care & complications • Cardiac arrest • Spinal/epidural & regional anaesthesia • Nerve blocks • Anaesthetic equipment & monitoring • Central venous catheterisation • Arterial cannulae • Management of haemorrhage • Human factors in anaesthesia
Dr Smyth in RHYL
• General dentist, 30+ years clinical, expertise in wide range of dental treatment • 25+ years dento-legal experience • Offer a free of charge 15 minutes to check dental cases are within areas of expertise • Personal injury adult and child, clinical negligence, regulatory cases • Consultation often available within 7 days Venues at: • Liverpool • Cheshire • Manchester • Shropshire • North Wales Report for claimant, defendant, GDC, registrant, coroner, insurer, councils, NHS England and Scotlan...
Dr Dan Lee in LONDON
Geriatric medicine • Dementia • Falls • Rehabilitation • Personal injury • Clinical negligence • Mental capacity • Life expectancy Also consulting at: 10 Heol Y Felin, Cardiff , CF5 4BT.
Dr Mangion in BOSTON
I have over 30 years' experience in the fields of stroke medicine, geriatric medicine and internal medicine. I am familiar with clinical practice in these fields. Since 2010, my main work has been in stroke medicine. However, I continue to have a commitment to geriatric and internal medicine. My areas of expertise are in stroke medicine, geriatric medicine and internal medicine. I have gained the Cardiff University Bond Solon Expert Witness Certificate.
Dr Newby in LONDON
All aspects of paediatric anaesthetic care including preoperative assessment and optimisation. Please note that I CANNOT offer an opinion on children under one and/or those treated in a tertiary centre. All aspects of adult anaesthetic care, including their preoperative assessment and optimisation. Please note that I CANNOT offer an opinion on cases involving cardiothoracic surgery, neurosurgery or obstetrics.
Mrs Whitworth in WILMSLOW
All aspects of adult nutrition & dietetics, with special knowledge of enteral & parenteral feeding • Nutritional requirements • Diet & bariatric surgery • Diet & gastrointestinal surgery • Therapeutic diets, e.g. diabetes, coeliac disease, irritable bowel syndrome, dysphagia
Dr Jackson in WARRINGTON
Neuropsychological assessment of acquired brain injury and neurodegenerative conditions • Particular expertise in traumatic brain injury (mild–severe) with 8+ years’ clinical experience in neuropsychological rehabilitation • Over 500 neurological assessments completed • Accept instructions from claimant and defendant
Dr Phelps in AYLESBURY
Orthogeriatrics • Peri-operative complications/death • Dementia • Frailty • Osteoporosis • Medical negligence • Decisions on escalation/resuscitation • Ethical decisions on elderly patients • Inappropriate testing/medicalisation • Breaches in communication • Fitness to stand trial for older patients • Safeguarding situations • Coroner cases • Case reviews involving older, frail patients
Dr Harborne in LONDON
Frailty medicine • Care of the elderly • General internal medicine • Community geriatrics and rehabilitation • Falls, osteoporosis and polypharmacy • Advanced care planning and DNACPR • End-of-life care • Neuro-rehabilitation and stroke care All correspondence to: British Medical Experts, 60 Tottenham Court Road, Suite 6177a, Fitzrovia, London, W1T 2EW.
Forensic Healthcare Services Ltd in SOUTHMINSTER
FHC Experts for Law & Mediation is one of the leading providers of expert witnesses, giving opinions in forensic and legal matters, both in the UK and internationally. Since 1999 we have been providing a custom range of forensic expert witness services within the judicial system for all criminal and civil practice, including the police, family courts, defence solicitors and barristers, inquests and medical negligence to name but a few. We have one of the largest expert witness panels comprising of, but not limited to, medical, paediatric, psychological, psychiatric, technic...

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