Ms Blackstock is an experienced Mental Health Nurse with a strong background in forensic mental health and secure care. She has extensive experience working with complex, high-risk and high-dependency patient groups, offering expert insight into care delivery, risk management and institutional safeguarding.

Her expertise include detailed analysis of observation practices, care coordination and discharge readiness. Ms Blackstock’s reports are recognised for their clarity, structure and strong grounding in clinical evidence.

She is regularly instructed by both Claimant and Defendants in personal injury and clinical negligence cases and is able to provide expert opinion on causation, condition and prognosis, liability and breach of duty. She has completed the Bond Solon Expert Witness course. She can provide evidence in court when required.

Since 2024 Ms Blackstock has practised independently, building on her substantial experience in both ward based and community mental health settings. Her background in mental health assessment, risk evaluation, clinical management and case file review underpins her expertise in preparing comprehensive expert witness reports.

Ms Blackstock has extensive experience in cases associated with:

• Mental health standards of care
• Mental health risk assessment and management
• Crisis intervention and emergency mental health services
• Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS)
• Adult mental health services
• Substance misuse and dual diagnosis
• Perinatal mental health
• Community mental health care
• Mental capacity assessments
• Mental health review tribunals
• Cognitive assessments
• Treatment protocol reviews
• Mood disorders
• Bereavement and grief
• Autism
• Fitness to plead
• Fitness to work assessments
• Domestic violence
• Sexual assault
• Workplace discrimination
• Road traffic accident (RTA)
• Ethical decisions on elderly patients
• Effects of work related stress
• Feigning or exaggeration of symptoms (malingering)
• ADHD
• Depression
• Eating disorder
• Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
• Schizophrenia
• Self-esteem
• Self-injury
• Self-harm
• Paranoia
• Care management
• Safeguarding
• Infection control
• Suicide & self-harm
• Medicine management
• Bipolar disorder
• Psychosis
• Delirium
• Modern day slavery
• Alcohol and drug related offences
• Frailty
• Rehabilitation
• Phobias:
  – Natural environment (astraphobia hydrophobia, dendrophobia)
  – Animals (batrachophobia, cynophobia, equinophobia)
  – Mutilation/medical treatment (trypanophobia, dentophobia, hemophobia)
  – Situations (claustrophobia, glossophobia, aerophobia)

Ms Blackstock’s availability is 1 week and has a turnaround time of 2 -3 weeks.