Hip surgeon medico-legal reports
Independent hip surgeon reports for personal injury and clinical negligence claims, prepared by GMC-registered consultant orthopaedic surgeons and written to CPR Part 35 standards for courts across England and Wales.
Hip injuries change how a person moves, works and sleeps. Expert Medical arranges independent reports from consultant hip surgeons on fractured neck of femur, acetabular fractures, hip dislocations and the outcome of hip replacement surgery. Each report examines the injury, reviews the imaging and records, and gives a reasoned opinion on diagnosis, causation and prognosis, including whether post-traumatic arthritis or revision surgery is likely.
Solicitors instruct hip surgeon reports in road traffic accident, workplace and public liability claims, and in clinical negligence cases involving missed fractures or failed hip replacements. Falls in older people are a common instruction, where the report separates the effect of the fall from age-related change. Insurers rely on the same independent evidence when assessing quantum and settlement.
Consultants on the GMC Specialist Register
Reports are prepared by consultant orthopaedic surgeons with a hip practice, registered with the General Medical Council and entered on its Specialist Register. The surgeon writing about a fractured neck of femur or a failed replacement is one who treats those injuries in clinic and theatre, not a generalist.
Causation and prognosis addressed directly
The report sets out whether the accident caused the hip injury or aggravated pre-existing degenerative change, and what recovery is likely. Where post-traumatic arthritis, avascular necrosis or future hip replacement is a realistic prospect, the surgeon says so and explains the reasoning, so the claim can be valued on the full picture.
Written for the court under CPR Part 35
Every report is addressed to the court and complies with CPR Part 35 and Practice Direction 35, including the expert's statement of truth and declaration of duty. The expert's overriding duty is to the court, whichever party instructs, and the report answers Part 35 questions where the other side raises them.
Instruct a consultant hip surgeon
A hip claim needs an expert who operates on hips, not a general opinion. Tell us the injury and the issues in dispute, and we will identify a consultant hip surgeon, arrange the examination and deliver a CPR Part 35 compliant report your case can rely on.
- Fractured neck of femur and intracapsular hip fractures
- Acetabular fractures and hip dislocation after road traffic accidents
- Falls in older people, at home, in care settings and in public places
- Hip replacement outcomes, including revision and failed prostheses
- Post-traumatic arthritis and avascular necrosis of the femoral head
- Soft tissue hip injuries, labral tears and trochanteric pain
- Apportionment between injury and pre-existing degenerative change
- Opinion on future surgery, care needs and working capacity
- Clinical negligence screening on missed or mismanaged hip fractures
- Part 35 question responses and joint statements with opposing experts
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