Dr Stuart Porter
PhD. MCSP. HCPC. BSc Hons. Grad Dip Phys. MLACP. PgCAP. Cert.MHS. SFHEA.
Expert Witness • Lecturer in Physiotherapy & Textbook Author
Dr Stuart Porter has been a Lecturer at the University of Salford, Manchester since 1997. Dr Porter acts as an expert witness, his roles include the production of part 35 compliant reports on clinical negligence, duty of care and alleged inappropriate conduct, patient assessment and management, ethics and professional practice, rheumatology, orthopaedics and soft tissue injury management of both children and adults, His defendant to claimant ratio is currently 50/50.
Dr Porter is an international author having written ten textbooks translated into eleven languages. He has lectured internationally and is a publishing consultant for Elsevier publishers, Oxford. Dr Porter has enhanced DBS clearance, ongoing professional liability insurance and is registered with the information commissioner’s office. He is HCPC registered and can supply numerous redacted samples of medicolegal reports if required. He has done prison visits and fitness to practice reports for the HCPC.
Below is a summary of cases Dr Porter has been involved in since 2020
- Alleged electrotherapy burn by chartered physiotherapist
- Alleged failure to recognise compartment syndrome
- Alleged lack of duty of care (care home)
- Alleged inappropriate provision to child with autism and physical difficulties
- Alleged inappropriate physiotherapy to child with chromosomal disorder -
- Alleged inappropriate physiotherapy management by care staff in school of child with genetic physical issues
- Musculoskeletal issues in adolescent post cranial surgery as a baby
- Appeal to tribunal for child with autism and distal radial fracture
- EHPC appeal for child with low back pain and ADHD - Leicester
- Alleged neglect of a patient with multiple fractures
- Alleged breach of duty of care with patient with myelopathy
- Failure to recognise hip dysplasia in a child- lack of duty of care
Recent CPD training
- 2021 Annual Bond Solon Expert Witness Conference Friday 5th November
- Bond Solon Excellence in Report Writing course: including Annual legal update
- Medico-legal session. Terms and conditions for experts - a definitive guide
- What lawyers look for when finding the right expert. The assessment of expert’s fees
- 2022 Safeguarding University of Salford Manchester
- 2022 Cauda Equina Syndrome and litigation in UK Physiotherapy Summit meeting
- 2023 Paediatric and adult neurology -The role of the physiotherapist as an expert Witness Potter Rees Dolan, Manchester
- 2023 Medico Legal Association of Chartered Physiotherapists First Contact Physiotherapy and Litigation
- 2023 The expert witness institute Pain and Medico Legal Work Radisson Blu, Liverpool
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