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Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon · Medico-legal expert

Mr David P Johnson

An Orthopaedic Expert for medico-legal reports on catastrophic injury and orthopaedic medical negligence.

Registered with the General Medical Council as a specialist in Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery. GMC 2641463.

An internationally recognised expert in Knee surgery of all types, Sports Injuries, Anterior Knee Pain, Joint Replacement and infection and complications following orthopaedic surgery.

More than 25 years of medico-legal and medical negligence reporting. He represents claimants and defendants equally, and some of his work is as a jointly appointed expert.

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Mr David P Johnson, studio portrait
Bristol · Instructed by solicitors across the UK

Expertise built over a full surgical career.

Mr Johnson trained in Manchester, Bristol and Oxford, with fellowships in Australia and the USA, and practised as a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon in Bristol from 1992. Today his practice is dedicated to medico-legal reporting, and that clinical experience is the foundation of every report.

Reporting
More than 25 years of medico-legal and medical negligence reports. Solicitors from around the UK regularly instruct him, often in relation to major injury, catastrophic injury and high value contentious claims. He has acted in cases from Singapore, Korea, Australia and the USA and in relation to professional soccer players in the UK and Europe.
Regulatory and NHS
Orthopaedic Advisor to the NHS Healthcare Commission, complaints review (2007 to 2009). Expert advisor to the General Medical Council on fitness to practise (2009). Medical negligence expert for the NHS Litigation Authority (2014). BMA and HCSA regional representative.
Instructions
Claimants and defendants equally, and he is regularly instructed as a single jointly appointed expert.
In court
Has attended court as an expert witness on many occasions.
Product claims
Appointed by a major multinational company to review negligence claims relating to resurfacing hip implants.
Particular depth
Failed knee replacement surgery and ligament reconstruction, infection following joint replacement and catastrophic orthopaedic injuries.
Research
MD thesis, University of Manchester, on infection and wound healing following total knee replacement. 29 indexed publications with over 1000 citations.
Author
Co-editor, with Professor Riley Williams of the Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, of Controversies in Soft Tissue Surgery of the Knee (Oxford University Press), Highly Commended in the BMA Medical Text Book Competition.
Recognition
Editorial board of the American Journal of Sports Medicine from 2000. Honorary Fellowship of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine. First UK graduate awarded the ESSKA and AOSSM travelling scholarship. Robert Jones Prize and Gold Medal of the British Orthopaedic Association.
Surgical career
Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Nuffield Hospital Bristol (1992 to 2018) and the Spire Hospital Bristol (1992 to 2016), with consultant posts in NHS trauma and orthopaedics through 2020.

Reports he prepares

Formal reports for legal action and for the courts, prepared on a solicitor's instructions after a review of the medical records, a consultation and an examination in person.

  1. 01

    Personal injury

    Road traffic injuries and injuries at work, from soft tissue injury through to major and catastrophic orthopaedic injury.

  2. 02

    Medical negligence

    Orthopaedic negligence reports for claimants and defendants, including failed knee replacement surgery and ligament reconstruction, and infected joint replacements.

  3. 03

    Joint instructions

    He is regularly instructed as a single jointly appointed expert, reporting to both parties.

  4. 04

    Professional and regulatory

    Appointed for complaints review for the NHS Healthcare Commission, and for Fitness to Practise review for the General Medical Council.

Cases he is often asked to report on

  • Failed knee replacement surgery
  • Failed ligament reconstruction
  • Infected joint replacements
  • Catastrophic orthopaedic injuries
  • Orthopaedic negligence claims
  • Major injury and high value contentious claims
  • Road traffic injuries
  • Injuries at work
  • All types of Knee and Sports Injuries

Instructing Mr Johnson

Solicitors should include formal instructions in the usual way. A quotation will be provided once we have the basic details.

  1. Send the letter of instruction

    By email to medicolegal@orthopaedic-medicolegal-expert.co.uk, with the claimant's details, the case type and any court or limitation dates.

  2. Send the records

    The relevant medical records, GP notes, X-rays and MRI scans. A CD or online access to the X-ray or scan is helpful. Please ensure that any passwords are provided, are correct and work.

  3. The appointment

    Medico-legal appointments are usually available within 4 to 6 weeks.

  4. Consultation and examination

    A consultation and an examination in person, following his review of the records. Please ensure suitable attire such as shorts, skirts or athletic underwear. Please note that the consultation may be recorded for transcription and security purposes.

  5. The report

    Usually available two to three weeks after the appointment.

Begin an instruction

Fill in the basic details and your own email opens with a letter addressed to medicolegal@orthopaedic-medicolegal-expert.co.uk, ready for your instruction letter and records to be attached.

Instructed on behalf of
Records and imaging

Questions from instructing solicitors

Answers from Mr Johnson's own pages. Anything else goes to Ms Catherine Jones, his PA.

Information sheets on conditions and treatments

In 1992 Mr Johnson founded Orthopaedics.co.uk, which became the largest independent health information site in the UK. These are his information sheets, kept in full, for background on a condition or treatment in a case.

Contact

Instructions, records and questions go to Ms Catherine Jones, PA to Mr Johnson.

Instruct Mr Johnson
Email
medicolegal@orthopaedic-medicolegal-expert.co.uk
PA
Ms Catherine Jones
Based in
Bristol, instructed by solicitors across the UK
Documents
Terms and conditions · CV · Medico-legal expertise

Mr David P Johnson MB ChB FRCS FRCS(Orth) MD · Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon · Medico-legal reports · GMC 2641463

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