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Professional Details

Date of Birth	14/12/1946
Professional Title	Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon
GMC Registration Number	1524729
Discipline	Orthopaedic Surgery

Qualifications & Memberships

MA
BM
BCh
FRCS
General Medical Council
Medical Defence Union
Ipswich Medico-legal Society

Expert Witness Memberships

The Expert Witness Institute
Law Society Directory of Expert Witnesses
Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL)
Medical Experts Online
ExpertSearch Ltd
Sweet & Maxwell

Areas of Particular Expertise

Road Traffic Accidents - RTA
Fractures & Fracture Complications
Hip & Knee Replacement & Revision Surgery
Product Standards for Surgical Implants

Willing to Undertake

Clinical Negligence	Yes
Legal Aid	No
Personal Injury	Yes
Forensic	No
Family Court	No

Medico Legal Experience

Legal Aid N/A to PI cases.

Mr Jeffrey Paul Hallett  MA BM BCh FRCS
Consultant orthopaedic surgeon

Registration
Full registration with the General Medical Council .  No. 1524729.
Qualifications   
MA BM BCh (Oxford 1971)   FRCS(England 1976)
Accredited as  specialist in Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery. (1982)
Post
Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust from Sept.1983 to retirement in Dec 2006, with private practice at the Nuffield Hospital, Ipswich.

Interests   
I am a general orthopaedic surgeon but I have special interests in the management of trauma, hip and knee replacement, foot surgery and national and international standards for surgical and especially orthopaedic implants.

Publications 
I have been a co-author of three text books and have written 15 peer reviewed papers for medical and surgical journals.

Medico-legal   
I have considerable experience of medico-legal reporting for personal injury claims since 1980.   I am listed as a graded expert by the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers, a checked expert of the Law Society (now Sweet & Maxwell) Register, and I am a founder member of the Expert Witness Institute.   I was the founding President of the Ipswich Medico-legal Society. I produce about 150 reports per year and in addition act occasionally as an expert for independent review panels in the NHS complaints process.  I occasionally give evidence as an expert in court. (once or twice a year).  My instructions are now approximately 80% for claimant, 10% defendant, and 10% as joint expert. (Many of my claimant reports are now also used by defendants.)

Recognition
I am chairman of the technical committee of the International Standards Organisation that deals with the standards for nearly all surgical implants, including orthopaedic implants. (ISO/TC 150 -  Implants for Surgery).
       
I am chairman of the committee of the British Standards Institution that deals with surgical implants at an international level. (BSI CH/150 Surgical Implants - International), and a member of the BSI Committee that deals with orthopaedic joint replacements (BSI CH/150/SC4.)

I have held various positions of responsibility such as chairman of the Anglian Regional Task Force on Junior Doctors’ Hours, chairman of the (National) Central Medical Manpower Committee, and have been a member of various Department of Health national committees.

In recognition of my local, regional, national and international work I was awarded successively distinction awards at the C, B, and A levels.
 

Languages

English

Venues

The clinic venue address/es are detailed below. The expert should only be contacted at the contact address as given above.

Venue Addresses - Copy	Nuffield Hospital Ipswich Foxhall Road Ipswich Suffolk IP4 5SW