Dr Adrian Rogers FRCGP

Dr Adrian Rogers is a registered medical practitioner and Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners. He was in active clinical practice as a general practitioner from 1975 to 2010 inclusive. He remains licensed to practice by the GMC [1543179].

He has 35 years of experience in primary care and is competent to provide opinion as to the standards in general practice during his period of practice.

He is a very experienced witness in General Practice having given evidence in Court in over 20 cases over a ten year period and having produced many hundreds of reports for a large number of solicitors.

Historic Cases in General Practice

Those seeking to establish the contemporaneous standards of care in general practice, in years past, need a general practitioner who was practising at the time and can not only recall standards, but is also able to provide references from contemporaneous texts.

Dr Rogers has a resource library of material to enable opinion to be supported by references from as far back as 1975. This is an invaluable resource for those seeking reference based opinion.

His work in a variety of clinical settings i.e. not just in one practice, has given him a wide experience of work in general practice during this period.

Dr Rogers has an extensive medical legal practice in clinical negligence and personal injury built over the last fifteen years. Last employed by the Rolle Practice in Exmouth, Devon (a five partner practice with 12,000 patients and three other salaried doctors) he returned to sessional GP work carrying out locum work in a variety of different practices and in addition, undertook out-of-hours cover for Devon Doctors in Exeter. Prior to that he had worked in out-of-hours rota, then for Health Call, the Exeter Doctors Cooperative and then for Devon Doctors.

Dr Rogers holds the qualifications MB BS LRCP MRCS having qualified at Guys Hospital London and thereafter undertaking four years of hospital practice to cover Medicine, Surgery, Accident and Emergency, Neurology, Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Anaesthetics. He holds further qualifications D'Obst RCOG and MRCGP. He was awarded Fellowship of the Royal College of General Practitioners in 2007.

Dr Rogers entered general practice in 1975 (in a four partner practice in Stratford-upon-Avon). From 1977 to 1997 he worked in his NHS practice in Heavitree and Wonford. From 1997 he worked in various practices and in his own private practice, until he joined the Rolle Practice in 2004-2007. Between 1997 and 2002 he also worked part time in HM Prison Channings Wood, and occasionally HM Prison Exeter, as a locum prison medical officer.

Dr Rogers was an approved doctor, under Section 12 of the Mental Health Act until 2010 and was on the local obstetric list, for Devon PCT list of sessional doctors and for the Devon Doctors out-of-hours list.

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