Mr Little has worked in conjunction with TLA Medicolegal for 15 years, and is one of our most sought after upper limb Orthopaedic Experts. With a turnaround of 80-100 reports per year, Mr Little accepts instructions for both Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence cases at a ratio of Claimant: Defendant: Joint 40:40:20.
Mr Little has been a Consultant in Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery in Oxford since 2005. He previously trained in Bristol and Oxford, with Fellowship Hand Surgery training in Birmingham, and worked as a Consultant at University Hospital of Coventry and Warwickshire. Mr Little has been the Clinical Lead for Shoulder, Elbow and Hand Surgery since 2008, and had been integrally involved with the national GIRFT /BESS project to establish elbow replacement networks.
Mr Little has been an elected Council member of the British Society for Surgery of the Hand, leading on projects to develop and support delivery of patient care during the COVID pandemic. By collaborating with the British Orthopaedic Association working parties, consideration has been made to resumption surgical priorities and to developing pathways for safe delivery of local anaesthetic surgery. This has led to the multicentre Corona Hands project which establishes the safety of hand surgery despite COVID, published in BMJ Quality and Safety, and also the recent BOAST publication on safe use on tourniquets. Following publication of his editorial in Bone Joint Open (which was the most read article in 2020, with over 27,000 views), he was invited to deliver a session on the safety and role of steroid injections in the COVID era to the British Elbow and Shoulder Society.
His current research interests focus on patient care quality improvements, in particular with regards to accurate diagnosis and appropriate treatment of suspected scaphoid fractures. To this end, he has chaired a session on contemporary management pathways and presented research findings to the BSSH scientific meetings, and is involved in multicentre collaboration to improve diagnosis and appropriate treatment of wrist injuries. Mr Little has sat on the Audit Committee of BSSH, and is the Sustainability Lead for the BSSH. He is also collaborating and leading locally on multicentre studies about the causes and treatments for rotator cuff tears and frozen shoulders.
Please email Mr Little’s Medicolegal Secretary, Alice, at alice@tla-medicolegal.com for his CV and further details.