Stage 1 · Records
Requested and read in advance.
Our services, in detail
Four services, all consultant-led and provided privately.
Program 01 · Records read beforehand
Specialist consultations
Reading the file before the appointment rather than during it changes what the appointment can achieve. It means the time is spent on your questions and on examination rather than on someone catching up — which is why we ask for records in advance and will reschedule rather than see you without them.
Stage 2 · Consultation
History and examination.
Stage 3 · Plan
Explained, with alternatives.
Stage 4 · Letter
To you and your GP, promptly.
Stage 1 · Everything
All prior records and imaging.
Stage 2 · Independent review
Formed before meeting you.
Stage 3 · Opinion
Including when it agrees.
Stage 4 · Written
Reasoning set out for you and your GP.
Program 02 · Including agreement
Second opinions
A second opinion is not a search for a different answer. Most confirm the original, and that confirmation is genuinely useful. Where we disagree we will say so plainly and explain why, and we will never criticise a colleague's management simply to appear decisive.
Program 03 · Only what will change things
Investigations & referral
Private medicine has an incentive to investigate broadly. We order what will change a decision and say so when a test would simply produce an incidental finding to worry about. Where your problem belongs with a different specialty we refer you, which is sometimes the most useful thing a consultation produces.
Stage 1 · The question
What a test would actually answer.
Stage 2 · Arranged
With costs made clear first.
Stage 3 · Explained
In a conversation, not a letter alone.
Stage 4 · Referral
Onward where another specialty fits.
Stage 1 · Instructions
Scope and questions agreed.
Stage 2 · Within specialty
Declined if it is not.
Stage 3 · Report
Reasoned, to CPR requirements.
Stage 4 · Unchanged
Opinion not altered to suit.
Program 04 · Duty is to the court
Medico-legal reports
The overriding duty of an expert is to the court, not to whoever instructs or pays. An opinion will not be shaded to suit a case, and we will decline instructions where the question falls outside our specialty — a report outside an expert's competence helps nobody and damages the claim it was meant to support.
Want to check we are the right specialty?
Send a short enquiry. We will tell you honestly, including when we are not.