Medicine
Sexual health expert witnesses
Listed sexual health expert witnesses address the diagnosis and treatment of sexually transmitted infection, testing practice and confidentiality. The instruction should identify whether the issue is clinical, procedural or a matter of disclosure.
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The evidence
What a sexual health expert witness is asked to determine
Sexual health services operate under particular confidentiality arrangements, and the records reflect that. What testing was offered, how results were communicated and how partner notification was handled are separate questions with separate documentation.
- Whether the testing offered was appropriate to the history recorded.
- Whether results were interpreted, communicated and acted upon appropriately.
- Whether treatment and follow-up followed accepted practice at the time.
- Whether partner notification was addressed in the manner the records describe.
- Whether confidentiality and information sharing were handled in accordance with the applicable duties.
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 sexual health evidence can answer. They do not prescribe the scope of an individual instruction.
Clinical negligence claims
Testing, diagnosis and treatment in sexual health services.
View claim type → 02Criminal injuries compensation
Medical consequences of assault where infection is in issue.
View claim type → 03Personal injury claims
Continuing consequences of infection and its treatment.
View claim type →Search the register by the discipline used in the instruction.
See sexual health listingsReport routes
Reports prepared
Testing and treatment records support a records review report, subject to the disclosure arrangements applying to the service. A breach and causation report addresses the consequence alleged.
Where continuing effects are claimed, a condition and prognosis report may be required. The report pages describe what each of those routes addresses.
Sexual health expert witness evidence
A sexual health expert witness addresses testing, treatment and confidentiality as distinct questions, each answered from its own record.
Discipline and location appear in the listing, and the approach is made to the practitioner. See the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV alongside the case material.
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