Intensive Care & Anaesthesia Expert Witness
MBBCh MRCP FRCA FFICM
Nationwide & South Wales
Dr John Gorst is an Expert Witness in Intensive Care & Anaesthesia. He graduated with honours from the University of Wales College of Medicine in 2004, then undertook rotational training in general medicine specialties and was awarded Membership of the Royal College of Physicians (MRCP) in 2007.
He has worked within the specialties of intensive care medicine and anaesthesia since 2007. He was appointed at Morriston hospital, Swansea, as a consultant intensive care physician and anaesthetist in 2015. Morriston hospital is a university affiliated tertiary centre and his clinical work is predominantly in a busy 28 bed mixed critical care unit. The unit admits 1200-1300 critically ill patients each year, a quarter of this workload is specialised/regional and the case mix acuity is higher than the UK average. He was Clinical Director of Critical Care between 2019 and 2023.
Anaesthetic practice is predominantly major vascular surgery and pre-operative input to high risk patients. He does not undertake paediatric or neurosurgical critical care practice.
Specific clinical, teaching and governance interests include:
Dr Gorst is happy to to receive instructions for clinical negligence (claiment, defendant and single joint expert), Court of Protection and Coroner inquests. He is able to provide expert opinion on most matters relating to intensive care medicine including the deteriorating patient and many elelements of anaesthesia including peri-operative care.
He has demonstrated ability to give verbal evidence in court including Court of Protection and criminal proceedings. All medico-legal work is covered with specific professional indeminity insurance.
His recently ended tenure as clinical director (2019-2023) involved investigation of serious incidents, responding to complaints and scrutinising expert reports relating to litigation and Coronial proceedings. This has given him insight to what makes a high quality report from different perspectives.
The period as clinical director of the ICU included the COVID pandemic. Therefore, he is uniquely placed to give expert opinions on cases from this difficult period given his insights of being an 'on the ground' clinician coupled with wider service delivery knowledge at a ICU, hospital, regional and national basis.
All expert reports are proof read by another General Medical Council registered doctor, who is not an ICU or anaesthesia specialist, to ensure readability to a wider audience whilst maintaining confidentiality.
Dually qualified in Intensive Care and Anaesthesia with a broad general medical training prior to specialist training.
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Fellow Faculty Intensive Care Medicine, Fellow Royal College of Anaesthetists, Member Royal College of Physicians, Intensive Care Society, Welsh Intensive Care Society (Council member), General Medical Council, MDDUS