Dr. Heather Harris

Dr Heather Juliet Harris is a Consultant Radiologist based in Chesterfield, Derbyshire 

She has extensive knowledge of general radiology and radiology practice including policies, procedures, IR(ME)R, IRR17 and day-to-day issues working in a radiology department in a District General Hospital. She was governance lead for 5 years and clinical director for 3 years. She has attended the coroners court on behalf of the hospital on a number of occasions to present an overview of the relevant radiology. She also has experience of writing reports for complaints and incidents.

Her medicolegal work covers general radiology with subspecialist areas of interest of gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary imaging, some uroradiology and emergency imaging. She has experience working for an outsource radiology reporting company from 2014-2019. Dr Harris has been a Technical Assessor for UKASsince 2021, assessing for the Quality Standard for Imaging, and also undertakes work for the Parliamentary Health Ombudsman.

Dr Harris has undertaken medicolegal work since 2020 and has written over 120 reports, 95% for the claimant. She is able to take on work for the defendant. She has attended over 20 conference calls and attended the coroners court as an expert witness. She currently accepts work from the UK including N Ireland, and the Republic of Ireland.

Medico-Legal Expert Witness Essentials Course, SpecialistInfo, Birmingham, 21.11.18 – 5 CPD credits. Clinical Negligence Course, SpecialistInfo, Online, 21.01.21 – 5 CPD credits. Regularly read Medico-Legal magazine produced by SpecialistInfo and the journal from Expert Witness to keep up to date. 19.05.2023 – watched AvMA webinar on radiology in medicolegal cases from the conference in 2022. 1CPD credit. Advanced Expert Witness Reaccreditation course, SpecialistInfo, online – 6th February 2024, 6 CPD points

GMC, Royal College of Radiologists, Royal College of Surgeons of England, BMA, MDU.