Dr. Christian Hosker

I can confirm that I graduated as BMBS at University of Nottingham in August 2000. After a year of pre-registration House Officer Posts at the Queens Medical Centre in Nottingham, I gained full registration with the GMC and remain on the register of Medical Practitioners with an acknowledged speciality of General Adult Psychiatry and an endorsement in Liaison Psychiatry. 

I entered specialist training in psychiatry in 2001 which continued until I received my Certificate of Completion of Training in 2008. During that time, I gained a Masters Degree at the University of Leeds in Clinical Psychiatry and a Post Graduate Diploma in Mental Health Law at the University of Northumbria. I also passed the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ professional exams, becoming a Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (Membership Number 806991).

In September 2008 I was appointed as a Liaison Psychiatry Consultant in Leeds with responsibility for providing specialist mental health care to patients residing at St James’ University Hospital and with a sub-speciality in palliative care psychiatry and live liver transplantation. 

From 2008 until 2020 I provided assessments and treatment for patients in general hospital and hospice settings, as well as conducting outpatient clinics for patients suffering from the psychiatric effects of physical illness and medically unexplained symptoms and for patients presenting for live liver donation. In 2014 I was appointed as Clinical Lead for the Leeds Liaison Psychiatry service and held clinical responsibility for the provision of services across St James’s University Hospital and the Leeds General Infirmary as well as for the National Inpatient Centre for Psychological Medicine and other specialist liaison psychiatry functions including a Chronic Fatigue Service, a Psycho-Sexual Medicine Service and an Older Persons Liaison Psychiatry Service. 

In 2020 I was appointed as Executive Medical Director on the Board of LYPFT. My clinical workload since has focused on providing mental health care to the Leeds Living Donor Transplant Team and into the Northern Veterans Mental Health Complex Treatment Service. I also supervise a community mental health team MDT and continue to provide complex case peer discussions with liaison psychiatry colleagues in Leeds.

Since 2011 I have gained considerable experience in undertaking complex expert witness work over a range of proceedings including clinical negligence, personal injury, asylum, military compensation and criminal injuries compensation. I currently provide 12 reports per annum and have experience of providing joint reports.

In respect of clinical negligence and personal injury work, I have been instructed by a range of Solicitors from across England. Over the past two years the defendant-claimant ration has been approximately 1:1

My clinical negligence/personal injury work usually involves reporting on issues of breach, causality, condition and prognosis. Cases have typically involved one of the following three scenarios:

1. Interview and reporting on the psychological/psychiatric health of Claimant’s alleging medical (non psychiatric) or dental negligence within either a community or hospital setting
2. Interview and reporting on the psychological/psychiatric health of Claimants who have suffered significant personal injury e.g. secondary to road traffic or industrial accidents 
3. Providing detailed reports in cases of alleged psychiatric negligence where the outcome has been suicide, homicide or some other form of serious adverse event.

My area of expertise does not stretch to Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (instructions for any Claimant under 18 will not be accepted) or Learning Disability. I will see Claimants up to the age of 75 years if there is no suggestion of cognitive impairment. 

I have authored numerous articles that have been published in peer review journals (including the BMJ) and book chapters. Book chapters include Liaison Psychiatry Emergencies in Emergency Psychiatry and Emotional Disorders in Neurological Rehabilitation in Handbook of Clinical Neurology. I was the Academic Secretary for the Northern and Yorkshire Division of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the Psychiatric Representative on the British Psycho-oncology Society. I currently Chair the Mental Health Care Delivery Board in Leeds. I have presented at numerous conferences including the Liaison Psychiatry Faculty Conference and the International Psycho-Oncology Society Conference and as a Honorary Senior Lecturer have regularly taught at the University of Leeds on topics such as Bipolar Affective Disorder, Psycho-pharmacology and medical statistics.

I can confirm that I am a registered medical practitioner with a Licence to Practice. I am also approved under Section 12 (2) of the Mental Health Act as having expertise in the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorder.

University of Nottingham

Bond Solon: Excellence in Report Writing – Written Evidence 2019 - Courtroom Skills 2023 - Cross Examination Training and Civil Procedures 2025

Royal College of Psychiatrists