Mr Raj H Ragoowansi

Mr Ragoowansi accepts instructions for personal injury claims and provides clear, balanced medico-legal reports for solicitors acting on behalf of both claimants and defendants.

Medicolegal and clinical background
• Renowned expert in Plastic, Reconstructive and Hand/Wrist Surgery, Senior Consultant at
Barts Health NHS Trust.
• Over 20 years of experience in Medico-Legal reports and acting as an expert in Clinical
Negligence cases.
• Contemporary clinical and surgical skills with up-to-date knowledge, measured and
collegiate decision-making.
• Warm, professional, and polite bedside manner.
• Reports are thorough, precise, evidence-based, and fair.
• Efficient administration staff ensuring seamless service from consultation to report delivery
with rapid query turnaround.

Medico-Legal Expertise
• Completes 120-150 medico-legal reports annually, majority relating to Personal Injury
(RTAs, workplace trauma, domestic injuries, assaults).
• Report profile: 65% claimant, 30% defendant, 5% joint.
• Personal Injury cases: Hand & Wrist surgery, skin lacerations and scars, burns and scalds,
aesthetic surgery (breast and body contouring).
• Clinical Negligence cases: causation, prognosis, or both; 3-7 carefully vetted cases per
year.

Outpatient Venues & Facilities
• Patients/clients seen within 3-4 weeks of instruction, within and out of hours: NW8, W1,
IG4.
• Minors (<16 years) seen with paediatric nurse at Hospital of St John’s & St Elizabeth’s, NW8.
• Disabled access and interpreter facilities available on request.
• Venues:
o 101 Harley Street, London, W1G 6AH – minors and adults
o Hospital of St John & St Elizabeth, NW8 – minors and adults
o Spire East London Hospital, IG4 – adults only
• Report turnaround: 3-4 weeks after consultation.
• Efficient office for scheduling and court date management.
• Home and Prison visits accepted.

Sub-Speciality Disciplines
General Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery
• Accident and trauma (industrial, domestic) surgery
• Scarring & skin defects
• Lacerations, crush injuries, animal bites requiring skin graft, local flaps, free flaps
• Burns, scalds, sports injuries

Hand & Wrist Surgery – Emergency
• Soft tissue lacerations, fractures
• Amputation finger/thumb, finger/thumb replant
• Burns, crush injuries
• Peripheral nerve injuries

Hand & Wrist Surgery – Elective
• Dupuytren’s contracture
• Joint rebalancing for osteo/rheumatoid arthritis and post-trauma
• Tendon repair/transfer
• Nerve injuries/neuroma relocation/excision
• Ligament reconstruction
• Hand swellings, upper limb nerve decompression (carpal & cubital tunnel)
• RSI, DeQuervain’s tenosynovitis, Vibration white finger, Raynaud’s disease
• Soft tissue trauma including hypertrophic/keloid scars
• Burns & scalds
• Skin lesions/lumps (benign, pre-malignant, malignant)

Medico-Legal Services
Adult and Paediatric Personal Injury Cases
• Assessment and reporting for adults and minors
• Home and prison visits available on request
Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery
• Plastic Surgery
• Reconstructive Surgery
• Soft tissue reconstruction
• Complex wound management
• Scar revision and secondary reconstruction

Hand & Upper Limb Surgery
• Tendon injuries
• Nerve injuries
• Finger and thumb amputations
• Fingertip injuries
• Dupuytren’s contracture
• Hand and upper limb fractures
• Nerve decompression surgery
• Joint injuries & post-traumatic stiffness

Scarring, Burns & Skin Injuries
• Burns and scalds
• Skin grafting
• Scarring and skin defects
• Cosmetic and functional impact of scarring

Trauma & Injury Types
• Road Traffic Accidents (RTA)
• Workplace injuries: lacerations, crush injuries, burns, amputations, fractures
• Public place injuries: falls, slips, trips
• Dog bites
• Assault injuries
• Soft tissue trauma
• Nerve injuries

Skin & Soft Tissue Conditions
• Skin lumps and lesions
• Traumatic skin loss
• Post-surgical complications relevant to claims

Medico-Legal Expertise
• CPR 35-compliant reports for solicitors
• Causation, prognosis & permanency assessment
• Valuation of scarring & functional impairment
• Photographic documentation of injuries
• Impact on employment and daily function
• Court attendance & conferences with counsel
• Mr Ragoowansi accepts instructions for personal injury claims and provides clear, balanced
medico-legal reports for solicitors acting on behalf of both claimants and defendants.

• Medicolegal report writing and expert witness training: full certification from Bond Solon & Cardiff University
• Certificates of Attendance:
o Excellence in Report Writing – Written Evidence – Bond Solon
o Courtroom Skills – Bond Solon
o Cross-Examination – Bond Solon
o Law and Procedure (Civil, Criminal, Family) – Day 1 & 2 – Bond Solon
o Certificate of Attendance – Bond Solon.
o Cardiff University report writing – pass

Full member of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons and an active member of the Hand & Wrist Surgery facility.