Katie YeadonConsultant Colorectal Surgeon
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Independent medico-legal expertise

Expert witness services

Alongside her NHS and private clinical work, Katie provides expert witness services in personal injury and clinical negligence matters, drawing on her experience in general and colorectal surgery.

Personal injury

Independent surgical opinion for personal injury claims

Katie has worked for over a decade with solicitors handling personal injury claims for people who have been involved in accidents.

Her role is to provide an independent clinical assessment and expert surgical opinion relevant to the injury, its effects and the issues being considered within the claim.

Clinical negligence

General and colorectal surgery cases

Katie also provides expert opinion in clinical negligence matters involving general surgery and colorectal surgery.

Katie delivers independent medico-legal opinion with clarity and precision, using meticulous record analysis, objective breach and causation reports, and courtroom testimony, all backed by years of specialised clinical practice.

Experience behind the opinion

Clinical, governance and medico-legal experience

Katie brings more than 19 years of consultant experience in general and colorectal surgery to her expert witness work, supported by GMC specialist registration, national professional roles, clinical governance experience, research and guideline work.

Consultant since 2007Broad experience across elective, emergency, cancer and benign general and colorectal surgery.
Clinical governanceLong-standing experience reviewing complications, complaints, mortality and morbidity, audit and clinical standards.
National professional rolesRoyal College of Surgeons and ACPGBI leadership and committee experience.
Medico-legal trainingMedico-Legal Essentials Expert Training and subsequent ACPGBI medico-legal update training.
GMC specialist statusOn the GMC Specialist Register for General Surgery since 2007 and recognised by the GMC as a trainer.
Independent opinion
Katie's role as an expert witness is to provide an independent clinical opinion within her areas of expertise, based on the medical evidence and the issues on which she has been instructed.
Professional evidence base

Published research and national guidance

Katie's medico-legal opinions are informed by a long clinical career alongside research, audit, national committee work and peer-reviewed publication in colorectal surgery, endoscopy and general surgical care.

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Expert witness fees

medico-legal fee schedule

Fees depend on the nature and urgency of the instruction. The figures below are placeholders for review before publication.

Professional time

Record review, report preparation and professional work
£350 per hour
Urgent work, where agreed
£400 per hour
Telephone/video conferences and conferences with counsel
£350 per hour

Court, travel & payment

Court attendance
From £2,000 per day
Travel time
Standard hourly rate
Reasonable travel expenses
Charged separately at cost
Payment terms
28 days

Jackie Woodward can confirm Katie's availability, the applicable rate and any case-specific terms before an instruction is accepted.

Medico-legal enquiries

Contact Katie's expert witness secretary

For expert witness instructions, availability and administrative enquiries, please contact Jackie Woodward.

Jackie Woodward

Expert witness and medico-legal secretary

Email JackieCall 01271 322747

Email: jackie.woodward@nhs.net
Telephone: 01271 322747