Consultant Obstetrician
BSc, MBChB, MRCOG
North West and Nationwide
Dr Gillian Stephen is a Consultant Obstetrician who has a special interest in multiple pregnancies, perinatal mental health and fetal medicine.
Dr Stephen qualified from the University of Manchester Medical School in 2003 after completing a BSc in Medical Science at the University of St Andrews. She trained in the North West and commenced Maternal and Fetal Medicine subspecialty training at Saint Mary’s Hospital in 2011.
She is instructed by Claimants and Defendants in clinical negligence and personal injury cases. Dr Stephen is happy to opine on causation, condition and prognosis, breach of duty and liability.
Dr Stephen has experience in cases relating to:
• Intrapartum care
• Delay in diagnosis
• Fetal medicine
• Multiple pregnancy management
• Maternal mental health
• High risk antenatal care
• Early neonatal deaths
• Hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy (HIE)
• Abnormal CTG assessment
• Mismanagement of DVT/P
• Failure to discuss risks (foetal macrosomia (large baby))
• Trauma relating to delivery (mother and baby)
• Traumatic births
• Failure to expedite delivery following abnormal red flags:
– Abnormal CTG
– Abnormal FBS
– Breech/footing deliveries
Please see the pdf ‘Terms of Engagement’ for full details of the provision of medical reports and expert medical witness work.
Completed the Cardiff University Bond Solon Expert Witness Certificate, having completed the excellence in report writing, cross examination, courtroom skills, and civil law courses.
