Description
Mr Matthew Peel RN, MSc, BSc (Hons), DipHE, CUBS
Registered Nurse, Advanced Clinical Practitioner and Expert Witness
UK-wide expert witness services | Free initial 15-minute consultation
Mr Matthew Peel is an experienced Registered Nurse and Advanced Clinical Practitioner providing independent expert opinion in matters involving general nursing, advanced clinical practice, police custody healthcare, prescribing, forensic healthcare and deaths in custody.
His diverse clinical background encompasses hospital, care-home and community healthcare settings, including acute medicine, emergency nursing and intensive care. He has extensive experience assessing and managing deteriorating patients, complex health conditions and clinical risk.
Mr Peel accepts instructions from solicitors, barristers, public bodies and other organisations requiring clear, balanced and evidence-based nursing expertise. His experience includes claimant, defendant and Single Joint Expert instructions.
Areas of Expertise
General Nursing and Clinical Care
Mr Peel has extensive nursing experience across acute hospital environments, emergency care, intensive care, community healthcare and residential care settings.
His expertise includes:
- General nursing practice
- Nursing standards and professional responsibilities
- Clinical assessment and patient management
- Management of deteriorating patients
- Acute medicine and emergency nursing
- Intensive care nursing
- Care planning and clinical record-keeping
- Medication administration
- Patient monitoring and escalation
- Nursing care in hospitals, care homes and community settings
- Breach of duty and causation issues within nursing practice
- Clinical governance, patient safety and risk management
He can provide an independent opinion on whether nursing care met the appropriate professional and clinical standards.
Police Custody Healthcare
Mr Peel has more than ten years of specialist experience in police custody healthcare, including senior experience as a Clinical Head of Service.
His expertise encompasses the assessment, treatment, monitoring and safeguarding of detainees in police custody, including individuals presenting with physical illness, mental-health concerns, intoxication, substance misuse, injury or other vulnerabilities.
Relevant areas include:
- Healthcare assessments in police custody
- Fitness to detain
- Fitness to interview
- Detainee welfare and safeguarding
- Clinical observation and monitoring
- Management of intoxication and withdrawal
- Mental-health risk
- Suicide and self-harm risk
- Substance misuse
- Clinical escalation and emergency referral
- Custody healthcare policies and procedures
- Forensic examination and evidence collection
- Professional and clinical decision-making in custody environments
Forensic Healthcare and Criminal Proceedings
Mr Peel is experienced in forensic examinations, evidence collection and the preparation of professional witness statements for criminal cases.
He has more than ten years’ experience producing professional statements and has delivered evidence in:
- Magistrates’ courts
- Crown Court
- Coroners’ courts
His practical understanding of forensic healthcare enables him to explain clinical findings, healthcare decisions and professional standards clearly to legal teams and the court.
Advanced Clinical Practice
As an Advanced Clinical Practitioner, Mr Peel has advanced skills in clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment and the management of complex health conditions.
His expertise includes:
- Advanced clinical assessment
- Clinical diagnosis and decision-making
- Recognition of serious illness
- Differential diagnosis
- Management of complex presentations
- Emergency and urgent care
- Treatment planning
- Referral and escalation decisions
- Multidisciplinary healthcare
- Advanced nursing practice
Independent Prescribing and Medicines Management
Mr Peel is a registered prescriber with extensive experience in pharmacological management and therapeutic interventions.
He can consider matters involving:
- Independent prescribing
- Medicines management
- Prescription decisions
- Medication monitoring
- Adverse effects and contraindications
- Pharmacological treatment plans
- Safe administration of medication
- Controlled drugs
- Clinical documentation
- Prescribing standards and professional responsibilities
Deaths in Custody
Mr Peel has investigated and prepared reports on behalf of NHS England to help inform Prison and Probation Ombudsman investigations into sudden and expected deaths in custody.
His experience includes cases involving:
- Deaths in police or prison custody
- Suicide
- Self-harm
- Substance misuse
- Alcohol or drug withdrawal
- Detainee observation and monitoring
- Recognition of clinical deterioration
- Emergency healthcare responses
- Mental-health and vulnerability assessments
- Clinical communication and escalation
- Healthcare policies and procedures
- Expected and unexpected deaths
This experience gives him a detailed understanding of the clinical, procedural and evidential issues that can arise following a death in custody.
Specialist Subjects and Publications
Mr Peel has written on a range of subjects relating to custody and forensic healthcare, including:
- Police custody healthcare
- Taser-related injuries and healthcare considerations
- Non-fatal strangulation
- Bruising in children
- Alcohol dependency
- Alcohol withdrawal
- Forensic assessment and clinical evidence
Expert Witness Training
Mr Peel has completed the Bond Solon and Cardiff University Civil Expert Witness Certificate and is working towards completion of the corresponding Criminal Expert Witness Certificate.
His reports are prepared with an understanding of the expert’s overriding duty to the court and the importance of independent, objective and properly reasoned evidence.
Expert Witness Services
Mr Peel accepts instructions in:
- Civil litigation
- Criminal proceedings
- Personal injury claims
- Clinical negligence matters
- Coroners’ inquests
- Deaths in custody investigations
- Police custody healthcare cases
- Nursing care disputes
- Single Joint Expert matters
- Legal Aid cases
He is also available for media and public-relations enquiries relating to his specialist areas.
Expert Witness Experience
Written reports during the past three years: 25
Court attendances during the past three years: 9
Instruction Profile
- Claimant instructions: 33%
- Defendant instructions: 33%
- Single Joint Expert instructions: 34%
Qualifications
RN, MSc, BSc (Hons), DipHE, CUBS
Professional Categories
- Advanced Clinical Practice
- Registered Nursing
- Police Custody Healthcare
- Forensic Healthcare
- Deaths in Custody
- Independent Prescribing
Geographical Coverage
UK-wide
Languages
English
Free Initial Consultation
Mr Matthew Peel offers solicitors and other potential instructing parties a complimentary 15-minute initial consultation to discuss the nature of a case, the relevant clinical issues and whether the matter falls within his expertise.
Contact Mr Matthew Peel
Telephone: 07834 518390
Location: West Yorkshire
Coverage: United Kingdom
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/matthewpeel
Contact Mr Matthew Peel today to discuss an expert witness instruction or arrange a free initial 15-minute consultation.
