GP Personal Injury Reports Preston

Dr Nigel Lord GP Personal Injury Reports Preston

Medico Legal Experience

Dr Lord provides GP personal injury medico legal reports in Preston. Dr Lord has extensive clinical experience and with 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 service and court attendance experience, from their expert in general medicine.

With a vast experience as a GP expert witness, Dr Lord joined the Expert Witness Institute in 2005 and completed his Bond Solon medico legal training in 2011. Dr Lord has gained significant experience working with solicitors, medico legal 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 https://www.themdu.com/about-mdu

Dr Nigel Lord has provided GP personal injury reports in Preston and at his various examination venues in the northwest for over 25 years, since 2000, as Specialist Practitioner.

Clinical experience

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.

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 worked as a locum GP, 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.

Medico legal expertise

Dr Lord produces GP medico legal reports on personal injury, serious injury, road traffic injuries, bicycle injuries, motorbike injuries, injuries from accidents at work and clinical negligence.

Clinical interests

In addition to standard personal injury cases, Dr Lord currently accepts medico legal instructions on musculoskeletal injuries, soft tissue injuries, needle stick injuries, low impact RTA, minor surgery, whiplash, trauma, injuries caused by animals.

 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.

GP expert witness responsibilities

When instructing a GP expert witness, Solicitors will usually look for experts who:

• Have the relevant practical experience in their area of expertise
• Are able to produce concise and comprehensive GP medical legal reports
• Are impartial
• Have a medico legal practice and sufficient time to deal with the case
• Will attend Court to give evidence if required

Expert witnesses are instructed by a party, such as a medical reporting agency (MRO), by an insurer or a solicitor, to provide their medico legal opinion and specialist knowledge on issues or facts, to help resolve a dispute on a in a medico legal matter.

An GP expert witness will not have been personally involved with case that they are providing evidence and opinion on (written or oral) and they are providing General Practitioner evidence because of their specialised knowledge of a specific field relevant to the case.

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 GP medico legal report which is unbiased.

Dr Lord offers GP medico legal reports and examinations for patients at his various examination venues in the northwest, including his Preston, Lancashire location:

Regus Docklands

Unit 5

Albert Edward House

Ribbleton

Preston

PR2 2YB

Visit Dr Lord’s profile for additional information: https://themedicalexpertwitness.co.uk/experts/dr-nigel-lord/

LOCATIONS: Altrincham | Blackburn | Liverpool | Manchester | Preston

T: 07542 749084  E: GP@theexpertwitness.co.uk