Breach of Duty
Independent Liability and Breach of Duty reports for claims around injury or illness eg missed fractures, wound care, pneumococcal or meningococcal disease/sepsis
PAEDIATRIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE
Chris FitzSimmons is a Consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine working at Sheffield Children's Hospital, one of only 5 dedicated Paediatric Emergency Departments in England.
He qualified in 1993 and has over 32 years experience of working in multiple specialities and more than 27 years
experience in Emergency Medicine.
He was the Lead Clinician for the Emergency Department between 2004-2008 and Lead Clinician for the development of the hospital's Major Trauma Centre from 2011- 2018.
Chris has been working exclusively in Paediatric Emergency Medicine for the last 22 years and has been preparing potential Breach of Duty Reports for the past 10 years, producing over 150 reports to date. His current claimant:defendant ratio is 70:30.
Chris has the expertise to comment upon all aspects of management in the Paediatric Emergency Department (age under 16 years at the index episode).
For a full CV, Terms of Engagement, details on Fees or current Report timescales please follow the links below.
Paediatric Emergency Medicine is generally considered a high volume, low risk speciality. Serious injuries and life threatening illnesses are fortunately rarer than ever before.
The majority of cases seen day to day
are relatively minor illness or
minor injury and resolve with minimal investigation or treatment and
usually without consequence.
However, despite everyone's best efforts within the hospital team, symptoms and signs are sometimes missed or their significance not appreciated. Often, poor outcome is
simply unpredictable but on occasions may be found to be compounded by omissions in
care.
Increasingly, contact is being made with regard to cases of
'missed' sepsis and these cases form a large part of my reporting
workload.
With many years of full time clinical experience and 10 years of Medico-legal
experience I am well placed to review cases and
form an independent opinion
on Emergency Department
Standards of Care in children aged under 16 years of age.
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