Consultant in Pain Medicine and Anaesthesia, Expert Witness in Pain Medicine
BSc (Hons) PG Cert (Med Ed) MBChB FRCA FFPMRCA
Manchester, Birmingham and London and nationwide
Dr Jonathan Rajan is a Consultant in Pain Medicine base in Cheshire. He qualified in 2006 from Edinburgh University and has trained in Edinburgh, London and the North West. His NHS post is as a Consultant in Pain Medicine where he has practised in a tertiary pain clinic since 2015.
Dr Rajan’s consultant practice involves conducting a range of interdisciplinary pain medicine clinics with interventional practice including radiofrequency, nerve root blocks and epidurals and neuromodulation. He works assessing both secondary and tertiary pain medicine referrals. He has set up a nationwide complex metabolic pain medicine clinic.He works as an integral part of an interdisciplinary pain management team, aiming to maximise patient involvement and satisfaction.
Dr Rajan has an interest in metabolic medicine patients with chronic pain (working in one of only 2 national centres that specialise in such disease) and have lectured to both specialist groups and patient groups on the subject of chronic pain in metabolic disease regionally. He regularly conducts acute pain ward rounds and see both chronic and cancer pain patients.
Dr Rajan is the Chair of the Regional Advisor in Pain medicine for the UK also a member of the Board of the Faculty of Pain Medicine. He is the vice chair for examinations at the Faculty of Pain Medicine . Dr Rajan has co-authored national guidance on best practice for spinal interventions for the British Pain Society.
Dr Rajan has experience of pain management rehabilitation following or as part of a medicolegal claim for personal injury. He has a wealth of experience from a background of one the few large, interdisciplinary tertiary NHS chronic pain clinics.
He is experienced in the production of reports for personal injury involving chronic pain, as well as negligence cases, for both claimant and defence cases. Dr Rajan has medicolegal training, he is adept at writing joint reports and providing swift and fastidious responses to part 35 questions. He consults in Manchester, Birmingham and London as well as countrywide, with short turn around times available.
Dr Rajan has medicolegal training in the form of the Bond Solon Excellence in report writing 2018/2022, Bond Solon Cross examination skills 2022, Bond Solon Courtroom skills 2022, and is a holder The Cardiff University Bond Solon (CUBS) Expert Witness Civil Certificate (awarded 2023)
UK and Ireland chapter of the International Neuromodulation Society, British Pain Society, Royal College of Anaesthetists – Fellow’s membership by examination, Fellow of the Faculty of Pain Medicine by examination, Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland, International Society For the Study of Pain.
