Mr Stephen E McCabeVerifiedFounding Member

I have been a fully accredited Emergency Department Consultant since 1988 and part time Consultant in the Emergency Department at Hereford County Hospital. I was full time Senior Consultant at Gloucester Royal ED for 30 years. I was a Founding Fellow of the Faculty of Accident & Emergency in 1995 and a Fellow of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of Glasgow and Edinburgh since 1982. I was a Royal College of Emergency Medicine Examiner from 2005 to 2024. I continue to do PI and medical negligence work and I continue to be registered with the GMC and annually appraised as up to date. Medico-legal work has been a major interest over the last 35 years, attending Bond Solon training seminars on Woolf reports, giving expert evidence in court and report preparation in general. I am registered with the UK Expert Witnesses and APIL. I was updated and accredited in Bond Solon Medico-legal Reporting parts 1 and 2 in 2013 and registered and accredited with Medco as of March 2015. I completed further annual Bond Solon accreditation updates in 2019. My medico-legal work has involved the preparation of approximately 300 PI reports a year, joint statements with colleagues, pre-trial negotiations and giving expert witness evidence in Coroners Inquests, the Crown Court, the High Court and the Court of Appeal. I am increasingly instructed on Emergency Department breach of duty and quality of care in medical negligence enquiries. I am an Emergency Department Expert advisor to the NHS and the Welsh Health Board. I prepare between 50 and 100 Medical Negligence reports annually for both claimant and defendant. I was trained in General Surgery and Orthopaedics in Glasgow and in A&E on the Bristol Senior Registrar rotation. During the latter I undertook training attachments in Neurosurgery, Plastics and Burns at Frenchay Hospital, Paediatrics at the Bristol Children’s Hospital and further Orthopaedic training in Taunton and Bristol.