Maudsley Private Care

The Maudsley Hospital is an internationally renowned centre for mental health care and provides the largest portfolio of national and specialist mental health services in the UK. Many of our experts are at the forefront of research and training in psychiatry and are highly respected in their field.

As part of this historic organisation, Maudsley Private Care is home to a dedicated team of Maudsley experts in a covering a range of specialist areas to provide prompt and responsive medico-legal reports and services for solicitors, barristers, courts and other agencies.

Our panel of nationally recognised psychiatrists and psychologists provide expert court reports and expert witnesses in civil, family and criminal cases across the UK.  As a leading national centre for mental health, we are used to complex cases and issues.

Following the outcome of claims, we can offer a range of individually tailored psychological therapies and family therapies. The care is joined up care, with the option of input from psychiatry and psychology combined.

Our experts

Our panel includes expert psychiatrists and psychologists in a wide range of general and specialist fields of mental health. Some of our areas of special expertise include:

  • Brain injury
  • Cases involving physical and mental health
  • Child and sexual abuse
  • Clinical negligence
  • Discrimination
  • Employment issues and workplace stress
  • Family law
  • Fitness to plead
  • Functional or ‘medically unexplained’ physical symptoms
  • Housing
  • Medical negligence
  • Mental capacity
  • Neuropsychiatry
  • Perinatal mental health
  • Personal injury
  • Psychological trauma

We have a dedicated case management team to ensure a prompt, personal and responsive service. Our team will help identify the right experts for your case. In most cases we can provide assessments within 1-2 weeks, with a report to follow shortly after.

If you would like to instruct an expert or have a case you would like to discuss, please contact Jess at medicolegalmpc@slam.nhs.uk