Wise counsel: the MDU cases committee

Dr. Simon W Watkin is a consultant in Respiratory and General Medicine. He qualified in 1983 from the University of Liverpool and trained there, obtaining his MD Thesis in lung cancer research. In 1994 he was appointed as a consultant in respiratory medicine to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, and was clinical director from 1995-2006 and deputy medical director from 2000. In 2008 he moved to the Borders General Hospital in Melrose and was head of medicine for five years. Having now retired from clinical practice, he is a member of the council and cases committee of the MDU and a non-executive director.

Dr Harjinder Sandhu graduated from Liverpool Medical School in 1989 and completed vocational training in 1995. After a brief term as a locum GP he successfully applied for a full time GP partnership at Tower House Practice in Runcorn, where he has remained in that post as a full time GP, alongside becoming a GP appraiser and GP trainer. As well as his role on the cases committee at the MDU, Harjinder is also a member of council, and occasionally sits on the case management committee and regularly on the risk advisory group. He has written over 150 GP expert medical reports for the MDU and has appeared as a GP expert witness in court.