GP Personal Injury Reports Blackburn
Dr Nigel Lord GP Personal Injury Reports Blackburn
Medicolegal Experience
Dr Lord provides GP Personal Injury medicolegal reports in Blackburn and Lancashire. Dr Lord has extensive clinical experience, as he has been working for the NHS for over 30 years, who remains a GP Partner at a large Teaching Practice based in Altrincham, Cheshire. With specific training and expert witness General Practitioner report-writing skills, this has enabled him to develop and exceptional and respected reputation with solicitors, barristers and judges, who require a strong expert GP report writing service, from their expert in general medicine. Dr Lord has also attended court to provide relevant opinion within his expertise.
Since 2000, Dr Nigel Lord has provided GP personal injury medicolegal reports at his various examination venues, including Blackburn Lancashire and has supplied instructing parties with medicolegal reports in the northwest for over 25 years.
Dr Lord joined the Expert Witness Institute in 2005 and completed his Bond Solon medico legal training in 2011 https://www.bondsolon.com/expert-witness/ With a vast experience as a GP expert witness, Dr Lord has gained significant experience working with solicitors, medicolegal agencies and insurers, providing personal injury opinion and in General Practice clinical negligence cases. In 2022, Dr Lord was also appointed to the Council of the Medical Defence Union.
Clinical background
Dr Nigel Lord qualified at Sheffield University (MBChB) in 1991 and continued his training until 1995, when he qualified as a General Practitioner, becoming a member of the Royal College of General Practitioners (MRCGP). Dr Lord held a locum GP position at the University of Sheffield Medical Centre, then became a GP Principal in 1996. Dr Lord currently has an NHS practice is based in Altrincham, where he is a Partner and former educational trainer plus GP supervisor. Dr Lord has a clinical interest in musculoskeletal medicine, joint injections and was promoted from a Member of the Royal College of GPs (MRCGP) to a Fellow (FRCGP) in 2023.
Medicolegal expertise
Dr Lord produces GP medicolegal reports on personal injury, serious injury, road traffic injuries, bicycle injuries, motorbike injuries, injuries from accidents at work and clinical negligence. He also accepts instructions on Public Liability and Employers Liability cases.
Clinical interests
In addition to standard personal injury cases, Dr Lord currently accepts medicolegal instructions on musculoskeletal injuries, soft tissue injuries, whiplash, trauma, low impact RTA, minor surgery, injuries caused by animals and needle stick injuries.
GP expert witness role
The duty of a General Practitioner expert witness is to the Court. A GP expert witness provides an impartial medical opinion to the Court, tribunal or committee and provides a medical opinion on the facts of the case. This is different from the role of the professional witness or a General Practitioner in the NHS.
GP expert witness suitability
When instructing a GP expert witness, Solicitors will usually look for experts who:
- Have practical and relevant experience in their field
- Produce concise and comprehensive GP medicolegal CPR reports
- Provide impartial opinion
- Have an established medico legal practice and can action case in a timely manner
- Can attend Court to give evidence if required
A General Practitioner expert witness is usually instructed by one party, or sometimes both parties in a dispute, known as a single or joint expert instruction. The duty of a GP expert witness is to assist the Court with the outcome of a dispute by providing an independent and unbiased GP medicolegal report.
Expert witnesses are instructed by a party, such as a Solicitor, (MRO) medical reporting agency, by an Insurer. They instruct a General Practitioner expert witness to provide their medicolegal opinion and specialist knowledge on issues or facts, to help resolve a dispute on a in a medicolegal case.
An GP expert witness is instructed because of their specialised knowledge of a specific field relevant to the case and will not have been personally involved with case that they are providing evidence and opinion on (written or oral) as this may be a conflict of interest. Dr Lord offers GP personal injury reports Blackburn monthly.
Dr Lord offers GP personal injury reports Blackburn plus medicolegal reports and examinations for patients at his various examination venues in the northwest, in Cheshire, Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Merseyside and including his Blackburn, Lancashire location:
Hunt Associates
Crispin House
20 Wellington Street
Blackburn
Lancashire
BB1 8AF
LOCATIONS: Altrincham | Blackburn | Liverpool | Manchester | Preston
T: 07542 749084