Dr Alan Woodall

Medico-Legal Experience

Dr Woodall is a General Practitioner and Expert Witness. He has completed Bond Solon expert report writing training and is instructed by Claimants and Defendants in clinical negligence and personal injury cases.

Dr Woodall is a leading case investigator and a GP Practice Inspector for Healthcare Inspectorate Wales, he undertakes GP Inspections to ensure compliance with current good medical practice in primary care. He is also one of their Senior Case investigators for all deaths in custody (prisons or police custody suites) in Wales. He has carried out over 50 inspections of practices and case investigator of any deaths in custody in Wales prisons, producing high quality reports.

Dr Woodall is happy to opine on causation, liability, condition and prognosis and breach of duty.

Dr Woodall has extensive experience in cases associated with:

Delayed diagnosis of conditions, such as:
– Cancer
– Heart disease
– Diabetes
– Serious acute conditions e.g infections
o Sepsis
o Appendicitis
o Diverticulitis
o Ischaemic limbs
o Stroke
o Heart attack (acute coronary syndrome)
o Subarachnoid haemorrhage
o Suicide
o Ectopic pregnancy
Inadequate management of conditions such as:
– Long term conditions (e.g diabetes, hypertension, kidney disease, including inadequate monitoring or review)
– Repeat medication and medicines related
– Research in this field (e.g medication monitoring or inadequate counselling regarding medication side effects)
Conditions that raise the risk of harm, such as:
– Atrial fibrillation (AF) increasing risk of stroke
– Diabetes
– Hypertension (increasing the risk of heart and stroke)
– Polypharmacy – taking too many medicines in frail and elderly that result in falls, injury, confusion and hospital admission
Operational issues in practices reception
– Signposting
– Review or action of investigation results
– Management of correspondence
Inadequate management of mental health conditions in primary and secondary care (Approved by Home Office as a Section 12 (2) Doctor with specialist expertise in psychiatry for mental health act assessments)

Dr Woodall’s availability is 1 week and has a report turnaround time of 2 – 3 weeks.

Clinical Experience

Dr Woodall was a GP partner for nearly 15 years, he is now at Powys Teaching Health Board (PTHB) as a GP principal, leading in integrated care, he provides specialist GP care to patients with serious mental illness/substance misuse who rarely attend primary care, expert opinion on physical health problems for patients in psychiatric and community hospital wards.

He continues to work as an out-of-hours GP, as a locum GP in understaffed practices across the UK and provides expert input on complex cases with multimorbidity and polypharmacy.

Dr Woodall is Honorary (visiting) Professor at the University of South Wales and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer in Primary Care and Mental Health at University of Liverpool, holding nearly £3million in current research grants. He worked for two years as a medical research scientist at the University of California Berkeley, he has also published over 40 papers of international impact that has led to government policy change within the UK.

Dr Woodall has 21academic prizes, awards and fellowships spanning his career throughout science and medicine, with Honours and distinctions in all his medical degrees and membership exams

Publications

Woodall A, Buchan I, Walker LE et al. ‘Flattened, fattened, and forgotten’: the ‘dis-integrated’ care of patients prescribed antipsychotics in the UK. Br J Gen Pract. 2024 Dec 26;75(750):9-10.
Woodall A, Gampel A, Walker LE et al. Antipsychotic management in general practice: serial cross-sectional study (2011-2020). Br J Gen Pract. 2024 Dec 26;75(750):e68-e79Abuzour AS, Wilson SA,
Woodall A et al. A qualitative exploration of barriers to efficient and effective structured medication reviews in primary care: Findings from the DynAIRx study. PLoS One. 2024 Aug 30;19(8):e0299770.
Woodall A, Abuzour AS, Wilson S et al. Management of antipsychotics in primary care: Insights from healthcare professionals and policy makers in the United Kingdom. PLoS One. 2024 Mar 1;19(3):e0294974.
Woodall A, Prosser A, Griffiths M et al. Cardiovascular risk estimation in rural psychiatric inpatient populations: Cross-sectional preliminary study. Psychiatry Res Commun. 2023 Mar;3(1):100103.
Woodall, A., Walker, L. (2022), A guide to prescribing antidepressants in primary care. Prescriber, 33: 11-18.
Woodall, A. (2021), Managing patients on atypical antipsychotics in primary care. Prescriber, 32: 18-23.
Woodall A, Sandbach EJ, Woodward CM et al The partial smoking ban in licensed establishments and health inequalities in England: modelling study. BMJ. 2005 Sep 3;331(7515):488-9.
Woodall A. Winter mortality in elderly people in Britain: outdoor exposure and effect of windchill should be taken into consideration. BMJ. 2004 Oct 23;329(7472):976.
Woodall A. Closing the gap between professional teaching and practice. Applying ethical principles is sometimes difficult for students. BMJ. 2001 Jul 7;323(7303):47-8.

In press/submitted for publication:

Shantsila E, Woodall A, Mair FS et al. Attitudes towards deprescribing in patients with multimorbidity and polypharmacy in primary care. medRxiv 2024.12.19.24319303;
Wang Y, Fahmi A, Woodall A et al. Association between phases of antidepressant treatment and hospital admission for older adults in English primary care: a matched case-control study. (2025) Submitted for publication to Br. J. Psychiatry

A full list of his current research activity, grants and publications is here: Alan Woodall (0000-0003-2933-0508) – ORCID

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