Mr James Widnall

Mr James Widnall

Consultant Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon

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james widnall

Consultant Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon

Expert Witness training completed 

Mr Widnall accepts paediatric instructions for personal injury and clinical negligence cases for both claimant and defendant.

Mr James Widnall is a Consultant Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool where he treats children in general paediatric orthopaedics as well as having clinical duties relating to both trauma practice and the elective setting.

Alder Hey is a major trauma centre for the North West and Mr Widnall has a large and varied trauma practice involving managing muscoloskeletal injuries and infection on an acute basis.

In his elective work Mr Widnall works with children with neuromuscular conditions (including cerebal palsy, spina bifida, CMT etc) and he has also an elective foot and ankle practice.

Mr Widnall has experience with gait analysis and is regularly involved in generating gait reports for the North West Movement Analysis Centre.

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He is available for claimant consultations in Liverpool

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Liverpool Trauma and Orthopaedics Weekly

Mr Ash Vasireddy, Consultant Orthopaedic Trauma Surgeon and expert witness

Outcomes after foot and ankle injuries and their medicolegal implications

by Mr Aswinkumar Vasireddy, Consultant Orthopaedic Trauma Surgeon

Ankle injuries are extremely frequent: sprains account for around 5% of all Emergency Department visits in the UK each year, while ankle fractures are one of the commonest fractures to require surgical intervention.

A Medicolegal Perspective on Outcomes After Knee and Hip Injuries

Due to their weight-bearing function, injuries to the hip and knee joints have profoundly significant consequences. Each year in the UK, there are over 75,000 hip fractures and around 20% of all adults report knee pain lasting at least one week.

Clinical Negligence in Orthopaedic Trauma

For a clinical negligence claim to be successful, it must be shown that the claimant was owed a duty of care by the defendant, that the duty of care was breached and that as a result of the breach, the claimant sustained harm (1). In 1999, changes were made to the Civil Procedure Rules which […]