Mr Richard Pyper

Richard Pyper has written over 1250 Expert Reports on Clinical Negligence in Obstetrics and Gynaecology in the last 32 years. He was a Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist at University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust from 1992 to 2023. Richard qualified from Cambridge University in 1978. He commenced his career in O & G at the Middlesex Hospital but chose to doubly qualify by training in General Surgery and Urology at St Mary’s Hospital and obtained the FRCS (Ed).

He returned to train in Obstetrics & Gynaecology and has 46 years’ experience in the specialty. He also has 32 years’ experience as a NHS Consultant in O & G, having been appointed at Worthing & Southlands Hospitals in 1992.

Richard has an excellent knowledge of all aspects of the specialty but is now concentrating on Gynaecology with special interests in Urogynaecology, pelvic floor surgery, urinary incontinence and hysteroscopic surgery for menstrual problems.

He was instructed as a Single Joint Expert in the Liverpool Urogynaecology litigation and wrote 90 reports. Currently, many reports concerning vaginal mesh and mid-urethral tapes (TVT and TOT) are being prepared for both claimants and defendants.

Expert witness experience
Clinical Negligence in Obstetrics & Gynaecology for 33 years
1250 Expert Medical Reports on a wide variety of subjects
Special interest in Urogynaecology and Hysteroscopy
Single Joint Expert for Liverpool Urogynaecology Litigation             
30% of recent work has been for Hospital Trusts
60% of recent work has been for Claimants
10% Single Joint Expert reports             
14 Fitness to practise reports for the GMC     
32 conferences per year with Barristers and Solicitors
14 court attendances in UK and Eire

For more information download Richards’ C.V.

Senior Registrar in O&G at St Bartholomew's Hospital London. Surgical Registrar at St Mary's Hospital London.

32 years’ experience with specific Expert Witness training in report writing and courtroom skills.

RCOG - Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, UK Register of Expert Witnesses since 2004, GMC Registration No: 2439279, Medical Defence Union, BSUG – British Society of Urogynaecology, BSGE – British Society of Gynaecological Endoscopy, MRSRH – Faculty of Sexual & Reproductive Health Care