Criminal Negligence

The premier network of expert witnesses at McCollum Consultants includes leading consultant physicians, surgeons, emergency medicine specialists, nurses, and allied health professionals, bringing deep expertise across multiple areas of medicine. Regularly instructed in high-profile and complex clinical negligence cases, they offer trusted expertise in the most demanding matters.

We provide expert reports for clinical negligence claims involving:

Diagnostic Delays and Misdiagnosis
Including failure to diagnose critical conditions such as cancer, sepsis, strokes, and other life-threatening illnesses.

Surgical Errors and Post-operative Complications
Addressing issues such as retained surgical instruments, wrong-site surgery, and failure to obtain informed consent.

Never Events
Serious, preventable incidents such as surgery on the wrong site, incorrect implants, and medication overdoses.

Medication Errors and Adverse Drug Reactions
Including prescribing errors, drug interactions, and failure to monitor high-risk medications.

Birth Injuries and Obstetric Negligence
Covering cerebral palsy, hypoxic brain injury, and failure to perform emergency caesarean sections.

Emergency Medicine and A&E Negligence
Including delays in treatment, failure to recognise red-flag symptoms, and mismanagement of acute conditions.

Failure in Nursing and Allied Healthcare Standards
Including pressure sores, falls, and inadequate post-operative care.

Multi-party Litigation and Group Actions
Expert analysis in complex cases involving multiple claimants, systemic failings, or large-scale clinical negligence claims.

At McCollum Consultants, we pride ourselves on our meticulous approach to complex and high-value clinical negligence cases. All our carefully selected medical experts have a wealth of experience spanning diverse medical specialities, ensuring our clients benefit from the highest calibre of medical expert evidence for their cases, to instruct an expert witness or discuss your case, please contact McCollum Consultants today.