Expert Witness Consultants
Partners
Rachel Bush
Rachel Bush, RGN, is a partner of Bush & Company. Rachel is a spinal nurse specialist with over 20 years of experience. Rachel manages the team of expert witnesses and case managers. She has been trained as an expert witness including report writing and courtroom skills.
Paul Bush
Paul Bush, MBE, MBAE, is a founding Partner of Bush & Company. Paul is a Practising Member of the British Academy of Experts and has worked in the area of disability for the past 29 years.
Nurses
Catherine Newcombe RGN RM IHSC Cert
Catherine Newcombe has over 25 years of practical experience within the NHS, Private Sector and in the Community. She has extensive experience in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of patient care and was the Senior Sister of a Neurosurgical ward for six years.
Sue Williams RGN
Sue Williams, RGN, is an experienced rehabilitation nurse andwas a member of the 2002 research team in a ‘Back in Work’ research study, jointly funded by the Health and Safety Executive and the Department of Health, to investigate the effectiveness of interventions in helping return patients to work. Sue has also been involved in the production of national Standards of Care for patients with back pain and soft-tissue conditions.
Occupational Therapists
René Bester B. OT SROT
René Bester has a wide range of occupational therapy experience with disabilities such as traumatic brain injury, spinal injuries, whiplash injuries, complicated fractures i.e. compound fractures, joint injuries, heart conditions, amputations, back conditions, depression and chronic pain syndrome.
Philippa Feltham-White MSc Dip COT SROT
Philippa Feltham-White has a wide range of experience and has gained specialist skills in neurological rehabilitation. She has gained specialist skills in cognitive assessments for brain injured adults and has been approved by the British Psychological Society to administer tests appropriate for Occupational Therapists.
Rosie Fielden BSc OT (Hons) PGC
Rosie Fielden is experienced in working with people with acquired brain injury. Her interdisciplinary goal planning approach helps people with brain injuries and their families achieve agreed rehabilitation goals.
Anne Harris MSc Dip COT SROT
Anne Harris specialises in long term, complex disabilities. Anne is involved in preparing reports on the needs of children and adults with a wide variety of disabilities, including cerebral palsy, head injury, challenging behaviour and learning disabilities, spinal cord injury and orthopaedic injuries to upper and lower limbs and back.
Linda Morris Dip COT SROT
Linda Morris special area of expertise is neurological and neurosurgical conditions, and she has maintained a special interest in the psychological aspects and effects of physical disability, issues of loss and bereavement.
Alicia O’Brien Dip COT SROT MBA
Alicia O’Brien has been involved in assessing claims for Long Term Care and Total and Permanent Disability, preparing reports and making recommendations for rehabilitation, care, equipment and alterations to the home. Tina has a longstanding interest in wheelchairs and tissue viability and more recently in the ageing process and cognitive impairment. Throughout her career, she has always had an interest in management and recently gained a Masters in Business Administration.
Hazel Tuckfield MScOT Dip COT SROT
Hazel Tuckfield has extensive experience in case work as a Social Services occupational therapist. Her work involved the assessment of adults and children with a variety of disabilities within their home environment, this included the recommendation for specialised equipment and adaptation to property. Her special interests have focused on children with complex needs as a result of neurological disorders and other childhood disabilities.
Jo Turnbull BhSc (Hons) O.T.
Jo Turnbull, BHSc OT, has expertise assessing clients with complex and long term disabilities, in relation to their equipment, environmental, rehabilitation and work needs.
Physiotherapists
Wendy Murphy MSc (Oxon) MCSP SRP Cert HE
Wendy Murphy prepares medical-legal reports, the purpose being to make a full, fair and impartial evaluation of a disabled individual’s needs and requirements to assist the Court in calculating the quantum of damages.
Sue Paddison Grad Dip Phys MCSP
Sue Paddison, Grad Dip Phys MCSP,offers comprehensive experience in working with people with spinal cord injury from the acute stage immediately post injury through the early rehabilitation and onto reintegration back into the community. She has extensive experience of peripheral nerve injury and brachial plexus management, as well as diverse skills in musculo-skeletal conditions
Speech & Language Therapists:
Catherine Harker LCST
Catherine Harker, LCST, has worked as a member of a multi disciplinary team with professionals from education and health services. She has trained students on clinical placements, given talks and presentations as required and supported junior staff. Catherine has a keen interest in supporting children with disabilities in schools.
Mandy Kay BSc (Hons) MRCSLT
Mandy Kay has been involved in service development, support of junior staff, training initiatives, provision of clinical placements and advice on alternative and augmentative communication systems. She has provided external training on brain injury related topics to other services and she continues to promote the needs of brain-injured adults amongst the wider community.
Michelle Whitton BSc (Hons) SRSLT MRCSLT
Michelle Whitton has wide clinical experience of a variety of communication problems associated with cerebral palsy, acquired brain injury, neurological syndromes and autism, and also has expertise in working with clients with complex needs and sensory loss.
Specialist Architect Services
Brian Towers Dip Arch (Oxford) ARIBA NRAC
Brian Towers, Dip Arch (Oxford) ARIBA NRAC,has considerable experience in the design of housing and the preparation of evidence for personal injury and medical negligence claims regarding permanent disabilities. The disabilities for which Mr Towers has direct experience include paraplegia, tetraplegia, brain damage, cerebral palsy, amputation, visual impairment and blindness
Jane Toplis, BA (Hons) Manch, RIBA, NRAC
Jane Toplis has worked as an architect on residential and public buildings before specialising in accessible design and consultancy since 1997. Jane has worked with major companies who specialise in access and architecture.