Mr Colin Read

I have worked as a consultant in Emergency Medicine for over 23 years. I trained in London, Australia and Leicester. In my current post I am a Senior Consultant in Emergency Medicine for University Hospitals Morecambe Bay NHS FT, and Honorary Clinical Teacher in Emergency Medicine and Medical Law for the University of Lancaster Medical School. In addition I have been an examiner for the Royal College of Emergency Medicine FRCEM Fellowship examination since 2010.

I hold an LLM in Law as applied to Medical Practice (awarded by Cardiff University Law School) with modules dealing with consent, negligence  and the Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act. My dissertation was on ‘Gross Negligence Manslaughter in Medical Practitioners’. This coupled with my extensive experience in Emergency Medicine, and fifteen years as an Examiner for the RCEM, as well as previous Instructor status for the three main life support courses means that I am well- placed to provide expert opinion in the field of Emergency Medicine.

I have prepared over 3500 reports on a variety of negligence, criminal, and Personal Injury cases.

Expertise includes:

• Standard of clinical care in the Emergency Department
• Expert reports to HM Coroner
• Treatment of head injuries 
• Diagnosis and management of stroke including delivery of time critical treatments such as thrombolysis
• Treatment of hand and upper limb injuries 
• Missed fractures including scaphoid fracture
• Diagnosis of hip fractures, slipped epiphysis in children and knee ligament injuries
• Diagnosis of acute ischaemia of lower limbs and compartment syndrome
• Soft tissue sports injuries 
• Causation of injuries incurred as a result of possible criminal activity including injuries cause by blunt and sharp injuries, human and animal bites 
• Major trauma 
• Spinal injuries
• Cauda Equina Syndrome and Spinal cord compression
• Diagnosis of DVT and Pulmonary Embolism
• Management of overdoses and related Mental Health issues such as capacity and patients absconding
• Emergency cardiac care and resuscitation, ATLS, ALS and APLS
• Chest pain- Aortic Dissection and Myocardial infarction
• Abdominal pain-appendicitis, ectopic pregnancy
• Paediatrics- Sepsis, meningitis, respiratory pathology

Services provided includes: 

• Provision of approximate costs and timeframes
• Overview/preliminary reports prepared within two weeks of formal instruction 
• Full negligence reports prepared within two/three weeks of formal instruction
• Clarifications on reports and answers to Part 35 questions
• Conferences with counsel attended as required 
• Joint Expert  reports prepared within court timetable 
• Attendance at court if required 

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Attended training in both report writing, joint expert meetings and giving evidence

Fellow of Royal College of Surgeons; Fellow of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine; GMC, Member of the Academy of Experts.