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Medicolegal Services

Professional Resume

Dr Simon Prince, Fellow of Royal Society of Medicine, expert medical witness in general practice, with considerable hospital and other experience.

Registration details
GMC: 2745240 JCPTGP: 23523 MDDUS: M124973

Suffolk Doctors Services List: 2745240-5JW.

2001 to date Clinical Director, Allways Medical Ltd. Core Cambridge, Personal and Athletic Performance Centre, Trinity Hall Farm Estate, Nuffield Road, Cambridge CB4 1TG.
Experience
1982 to 2007

In 25 years of medical experience since qualification as a doctor the following are relevant:

  • Local solicitors have instructed me to cover cases involving accidents, involving both single injuries and those where there may have been post traumatic stress or psychological & obstetric consequences.

  • I have invested in training course given by solicitors and a barrister, who had specialised in medico-legal work. This training enables me to produce high quality legal, reports and deal with cases of clinical negligence /medical malpractice cases

  • I have been cross examined by counsel, in an occupational health case. I was there to provide expert opinion under cross examination to the claimant and defence about how complex obstetrics issues were linked with psychological factors , and health and safety at work issues.

  • I have worked in leading London teaching hospitals in training posts covering accident and emergency, neurology, cardiology, chest medicine, medicine of the elderly, plastic surgery, urological surgery, , psychiatry, child psychiatry, obstetrics and gynaecology ,

  • I have acquired an immense range of "coal face" experience needed to be a general practitioner 1. G.P Trainee: Gilbert House, Woodfield Lane, Ashtead, Surrey, 2. Partner The Surgery, High Street, Lowestoft, Suffolk. 3. PMS Salaried GP, Clements Surgery , Greenfields Way, Haverhill, Suffolk.

Summarised Hospital Experience (further details upon request)

Feb 1982 - Jul 1982 St Pancras Hospital, London.
House Surgeon, General Surgery, urological and plastic Surgery (Including minor operations list).

Aug 1982 - Jan 1983 Harefield Hospital Middlesex
House Physician, General Medicine

Feb 1989 - July 1983 Whipps Cross Hospital London

Casualty Officer.

Aug 1983 - July 1984 University College Hospital, London Medical Rotation (SHO)

  • Chest Medicine
  • Stroke Rehabilitation
  • Genito-Urinary Medicine
  • Medicine of the elderly.

Aug 1984 - Feb 1985 Locums St Mary's, Harefield, St. Thomas & Royal Free

  • Cardiology
  • Neurology (with Neurosurgery cover)
  • Psychiatry

Mar 1985 - May 1988 St George's Hospital London.
Rotation in Psychiatry (SHO/Reg)

  • General Adult Psychiatry
  • District Gen Hospital Liaison Psychiatry
  • Psychiatric Rehabilitation
  • Psycho-geriatrics
  • Secure Ward
  • Eating Disorders
  • Child Psychiatry

Experience of supervised:

  • Individual Psychotherapy
  • Group Psychotherapy
  • Behaviour Therapy
  • Family Therapy

Jun 1988 - Nov 1988 University College Hospital
Obstetrics and Gynaecology (SHO)

Dec 1988 Locum Paediatrics University College Hospital

Qualifications

BSc.Pharmacology(2-1)

MB BS
MRCPsych
DRCOG
MRCGP
MBA

Pre-Clinical Experience

Pharmacology/Immunology/research 1 Year

Clinical Experience

Plastic Surgery / 3 months
General/urological surgery / 3 months
Medicine 18 months.

A & E / 6 months
Psychiatry / 3 years 3 months
General Practice / 14 years
Locum attachments Neurology with neurosurgery cover.
Cardiology /6 months

Training

Medicine
General, chest, genito-urinary, neurology, paediatric.
Cardiology and care of the elderly.

Surgery
General, plastic, neuro-surgery

Casualty

Psychiatry
Adult, (including secure ward), elderly, liaison, child and family psychiatry.

Psychotherapy of eating disorders, individual and group psychotherapy

Cognitive behaviour therapy.

Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Past Additional Work

Royal College GP District Representative
Training GP Trainers on Stress Management
Norfolk Medical Audit Advisory Group
East Anglian Region Psychiatry Purchasing Group
Member Advisory Council for Counsellors Lowestoft
Mental Health Purchasing GP Advisor Suffolk Health
National Mental Health Fellow.
Trained by Burson Marsteller-Time Management TM
Dissertation for MBA, Health Promotion for Under 35's
Work with Lowestoft PCG: Research early death due to suicide
Work with Dr Waller and Mercer: Suffolk Protocol for GP prescribing for Opiate Dependency
Cambridge GP Trainers Course.

Additional notes:

Nominated to be a Fellow of The Royal Society of Medicine

  • Represented GP colleagues at district, regional and also national level

  • Teaching and organisation of better training for my GP colleagues in mental health. Organised a confidential way for stressed GPs to get counselling.

  • Worked with the health authority managers to rebuild the contract for mental health for Waveney. A contract worth several million pounds..

  • Was supported by those managers who I worked with to study for an MBA with £25,000 worth of backing from the DOH and the support for this leave from the then Secretary of State for Health, Frank Dobson.

  • Submitted a report to the Health Authority and the Department of Health on the implementation of a health promotion strategy in one of the East Anglian Region's health black spots on reducing young deaths.

  • Currently involved in appraising GPs in Suffolk as part of their continuing professional development.

  • Currently involved in provision of occupational health services to companies and self employed in Cambridge.

  • Currently involved in the provision of out of hours GP services.

Medical School/National Prizes

  1. 1981 - Bernard Hart irst Prize (UCH Psychological Medicine Prize).

  2. 1981 - Nuffield Provincial Hospital Trust Essay Prize (Second Prize).

Publications

A Simple Rapid Micro-Latex Fixation Test
J.C. Cicciarelli, P.I. Terasaki, D.Chia, E.C, Barnett, MR Mickey, S. Prince., Y. Iwaki and Susan Shirahama
Clinical and Experimental Immunology. 36. No. 1 181 - 185. Oct 1979

First Steps in Psychotherapy
Contribution, pages 96-99.
Teaching Psychotherapy to Medical Students and General Practitioners.
Edited by H.H Wolff, W. Knauss, W. Brautigam.
Springer-Verlag 1983.

Failure to make Continued Progress with Graded Exposure Treatment of Blood and Injury Phobia
Dr Simon Prince.
The Bulletin of the Association of Behavioural Clinicians. 2. 16 - 18. Dec 1987.

References:

Dr. Carolyn Platt,
The Clements Surgery,
Norton Road,
Haverhill,
Suffolk
CB9 8LU
0844-4773543

Mrs Alison Hudson RGN,
Manager Huntsdoc,
Acorn Centre,
California Road,
Huntingdon
Cambs
PE29 BJ1
01480-483176

     

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