Surgery
Breast surgery expert witnesses
Listed breast surgery expert witnesses address diagnosis, operative management and reconstruction. The instruction should identify whether the issue is the referral pathway, the operation performed or the outcome now complained of.
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The evidence
What a breast surgery expert witness is asked to determine
Breast claims commonly involve triple assessment: examination, imaging and pathology. Where a delay is alleged, each element has to be read at the date it was recorded rather than against the diagnosis eventually made, and the outcome of surgery is a separate question again.
- Whether the symptoms recorded met the threshold for urgent referral under the pathway in force.
- Whether triple assessment was completed and its results acted upon.
- Whether the operation performed and the margins achieved met the expected standard.
- Whether reconstruction was discussed, offered and carried out appropriately.
- What difference earlier diagnosis would probably have made to the treatment required.
Practitioners are listed across all four UK nations. Location can be narrowed in the register’s location listings before an instruction is made.
Claim contexts
Claims that instruct this discipline
These links describe the question breast surgery evidence can answer. They do not prescribe the scope of an individual instruction.
Clinical negligence claims
Referral, diagnosis and operative management in breast disease.
View claim type → 02Personal injury claims
Continuing symptoms and appearance after breast surgery.
View claim type → 03Inquests
Breast surgery evidence where a death is being investigated.
View claim type →Search the register by the discipline used in the instruction.
See breast surgery listingsReport routes
Reports prepared
Imaging, histology and operation notes support a records review report. A breach and causation report addresses the delay or technique criticised and its consequence.
Where appearance and reconstruction are in issue, a condition and prognosis report is normally required. The report pages describe what each route contains.
Breast surgery expert witness evidence
A breast surgeon expert witness reads the triple assessment record in sequence and states what could reasonably have been concluded at each stage.
The register lists practitioners by discipline and location; terms are agreed with the practitioner. See the Association of Breast Surgery alongside the case material.
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