Dr Richard Hardie  TD  MD  MA  FRCP  FRCP Edin.

Qualified 1978 (St John’s College, Cambridge 1972-75, St. Thomas’s Hospital Medical School 1975-78).  MD (Cantab) 1984 in neuropharmacology. Four substantive full-time consultant posts combining clinical neurology, neurological rehabilitation and stroke services: Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital 1992-1997; St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust 1997-2002; Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre, Headley Court 2002-2005; and North Bristol NHS Trust 2005-2014.  Part-time locum NHS consultant neurologist Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham 2019.

Part-time Judicial Office Holder as medically qualified panel member in four First-Tier Tribunals including War Pensions & Armed Forces Compensation Chamber since 2005, and Criminal Injuries Compensation Appeals Tribunal since 2013.

Retired from full-time NHS practice in 2014 after 22 years working as a consultant neurologist, and undertaken medicolegal work as an expert witness both before and since then, now seeing between 50 and 100 Claimants per year, now approximately equal Claimant/Defendant split, .

Throughout my career I have always had a special interest and developed particular expertise in traumatic and vascular brain injuries and their rehabilitation, working closely with colleagues in neurosurgery and neuropsychology.  I remain licensed to practice with the General Medical Council and still participate in regular continuing professional development.