Clinical opinion a court can rely on. The machinery that gets it there on time.

Consultant Anaesthetist at East Lancashire Teaching Hospitals and Consultant in Prehospital Emergency Medicine with the North West Air Ambulance. GMC subspecialty accreditation in prehospital emergency medicine.

Deputy Chair of the Clinical Standards Committee at the Faculty of Pre-Hospital Care, and a Fellow of the Faculty of Remote, Rural and Humanitarian Healthcare, both Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Humanitarian deployments with UK-Med, awarded the Humanitarian Medal.

• Prehospital emergency medicine
• Retrieval medicine
• Patient transfer, including critical care transfer
• Anaesthesia and critical care
• Major trauma
• Military and veteran health

General practitioner, with a career-long theme of expedition, humanitarian and austere medicine in high risk and hostile environments.

Sits on the UK working group on frostbite and non-freezing cold injury. Senior clinical and advisory roles with the International Committee of the Red Cross, including board and strategic committee involvement, the HALO Trust and Medics4Ukraine. Appointed MBE for training the White Helmets.

• General practice
• Environmental extremes
  • Non-freezing cold injury
  • Frostbite
  • Heatstroke
• Toxicology
• Major trauma
• Military and veteran health

Consultant Neuroradiologist at Royal Preston Hospital since 2019, on the GMC Specialist Register in clinical radiology since 2018.

Leads the neuro-oncology and complex spinal imaging multidisciplinary teams, and performs spinal intervention under fluoroscopic and CT guidance.

Reports on the imaging and on its interpretation by others: whether a finding is there, whether it was reported to standard, and above all whether the trauma caused it or it was already present.

• Causation from imaging: traumatic versus pre-existing
• Traumatic brain injury
• Spinal trauma and complex spinal imaging
• Stroke, including delayed or missed diagnosis
• Neuro-oncology
• Imaging interpretation and reporting standards

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at Raigmore Hospital, Inverness from 2002, specialising in trauma and spinal surgery, and clinically active since retiring from full-time NHS practice in 2024. On the GMC Specialist Register since 2000 and a trainer recognised by the General Medical Council.

Lieutenant Colonel, Royal Army Medical Corps, retired, with operational service from the first Gulf War through to Iraq. Surgical Lead for UK-Med, and vice-chair of the Faculty of Remote, Rural and Humanitarian Healthcare at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Appointed OBE in the 2023 New Year Honours.

• Trauma and orthopaedic surgery
• Spinal injury and surgery
• Fracture management and outcomes
• Limb injury and amputation
• Blast and ballistic injury
• Military and veteran health

Consultant Vascular and Endovascular Surgeon at Manchester Royal Infirmary, and Medical Director of AVA Clinics, Manchester. On the GMC Specialist Register in vascular surgery since 2022. Greater Manchester Lead for Op RESTORE, the NHS veterans’ physical health and wellbeing service.

Reports 60 to 80 instructions a year, including high value negligence claims, split roughly three to one between claimant and defence. Has prepared joint statements under CPR 35.12 and given oral evidence under oath. Holds Bond Solon civil procedure and report writing certificates.

• Aortic aneurysm, open and endovascular repair
• Peripheral arterial disease and critical limb ischaemia
• Varicose veins and chronic venous insufficiency
• Deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism
• Carotid artery disease and stroke prevention
• Diabetic foot disease and amputation
• Vascular trauma and injury assessment
• Venous and arterial imaging

GP Partner, on the GMC General Practitioner Register since 2006 and a trainer recognised by the General Medical Council. GP Trainer and Educational Supervisor, Child Protection Lead and Prescribing Lead.

Military medicine as a Civilian Medical Practitioner and Army Recruit Medical Examiner, with particular expertise in medical appeals, and currently contracted to the Army Personnel Centre on medical appeals.

• General practice standard of care
• Military and veteran health
• Recruit selection, fitness for service and medical appeals
• Prescribing and medicines governance
• Safeguarding and child protection
• Women's health, paediatrics and mental health

Dental surgeon in NHS general practice in Leeds since 2013, with a special interest in oral surgery. Master of Dental Surgery in oral and maxillofacial surgery, and a Fellow in Dental Surgery of the Royal College of Surgeons of England since 1997.

Honorary Clinical Professor in Extreme Medicine at the University of Exeter Medical School, author of the dental chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Expedition and Wilderness Medicine, and dental surgeon to the British Antarctic Survey across three Antarctic seasons. Lead tutor on facial trauma training in a conflict setting.

• Dental and facial trauma
• Dentoalveolar and maxillofacial injury
• Dental negligence and standard of care
• Emergency dentistry
• Dental and facial pain
• Treatment related complications and prognosis
• Expedition and remote dentistry

General Practitioner by background, on the GMC General Practitioner Register since 2006, with a career in the medicine of cold and remote environments. Medical Director of Antarctic Logistics and Expeditions from 2003 to 2025, responsible for medical cover of deep field Antarctic operations.

Emergency medicine in the French Pyrenees and doctor to the PGHM mountain rescue service. Faculty for the UK Diploma in Mountain Medicine, and editor of the polar medicine section of Auerbach’s Wilderness Medicine. Read jurisprudence at Oxford and qualified as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court before medicine.

• Non-freezing cold injury
• Frostbite and hypothermia
• Altitude and mountain medicine
• Polar, expedition and remote medicine
• Medical planning and evacuation in austere environments