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Dr Rob Hendry

Medical Director

Rob is a native of Glasgow and studied medicine at Dundee University, graduating in 1981. He was a partner in an urban teaching practice in Dundee for over 12 years.

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Kashif Mahmood

Lead Legal Adviser

Kashif is a solicitor with over 20 years’ experience, mostly in the area of healthcare regulatory and disciplinary law. He has worked within private and in-house practice settings providing legal representation for individuals, corporate and insurer clients.

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Brian Caldwell-White

Case Manager

Brian is a case manager at Medical Protection, which he has been since 2018, after joining Medical Protection in 2014 with a background in civil law. Brian provides expert advice and assistance to our UK and Ireland members on medicolegal issues

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Dr Roger Palmer

Medicolegal Consultant

Roger trained in academic paediatric oncology and is listed on the GMC’s Specialist Register in Paediatrics (Paediatric Oncology). He has a research and education background and left Cambridge in 2008, when he joined Medical Protection.

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Dr Gabrielle Pendlebury

Medicolegal Consultant

Gabrielle joined Medical Protection in 2015 as a medicolegal consultant. She is also clinical lead for forensic adolescent services at Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust and acts privately as an expert witness.

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Dr Clare Stapleton

Medicolegal Consultant

Clare’s background is in anaesthesia and intensive care medicine. She worked as a consultant in the NHS for 16 years, before moving to Medical Protection in 2020. As an NHS Consultant, Clare set up the Medical Examiner Service in her Trust and held the role of Patient Safety and Mortality Lead.

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Beverley Hampshaw

Business Development Manager

Beverley Hampshaw is the Business Lead for Medical Protection in the UK for our medical membership. Based in Leeds, Beverley has worked for Medical Protection since 1997.

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Mohammed Bhatti

Relationship Manager

Mo Joined Medical Protection in November 2019, and is the Relationship Manager for Secondary Care throughout Northern England.

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Alison Mee

Relationship Manager

Alison joined Medical Protection in 2015 and is the Relationship Manager supporting clinicians in secondary care throughout Scotland and Northern Ireland.

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James Neal

Relationship Manager

James joined Medical Protection as a Relationship Manager in the first quarter of 2017. Based in Sheffield, James supports clinicians in Secondary Care throughout Northern England, the Midlands and Wales.

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David Rix

Relationship Manager

David joined Medical Protection in December 2018. Based in North London, he is the Relationship Manager for clinicians in Secondary Care in London, the South of England and the Channel Islands. David works closely with members to ensure their needs are being met, fielding questions about indemnity levels and discussing the various additional benefits available. 

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Leena Sharma

Relationship Manager

Leena joined MPS in November 2018, she is the Relationship Manager for Medical members in Wales, North London, Home counties, and the Midlands.

Leena is passionate about customer service and member experience.

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Dr Rob Hendry

Medical Director

Rob is a native of Glasgow and studied medicine at Dundee University, graduating in 1981. He was a partner in an urban teaching practice in Dundee for over 12 years.

He developed an interest in medical law and completed an MPhil in Law and Ethics in Medicine at Glasgow University in 1992. This led to consultancy work for Medical Protection and part-time teaching at Dundee University. He took up a full-time appointment as a Medicolegal Adviser with the Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland in 1996 and remained there until he moved to Medical Protection when a Scottish office was opened in 2009.

Rob is a Foundation Fellow of the Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine and continues to have an interest in teaching, having honorary positions at several universities. He has an interest in mediation and has served on a number of governmental working parties looking at alternative approaches to dispute management.

Having completed his MBA at Strathclyde University Graduate Business School in 2001, he has continued to develop his business interests. In 2011, he was appointed Deputy Medical Director and in 2013 became Medical Director of Medical Protection and is currently responsible for medicolegal services delivered by Medical Protection to its members worldwide.

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Kashif Mahmood

Lead Legal Adviser

Kashif is a solicitor with over 20 years’ experience, mostly in the area of healthcare regulatory and disciplinary law. He has worked within private and in-house practice settings providing legal representation for individuals, corporate and insurer clients. Kashif joined MPS as a healthcare regulatory solicitor in 2012, prior to which he was employed by the General Medical Council as a solicitor in its Fitness to Practise directorate. Kashif’s experience of prosecuting alongside his previous defendant litigation experience has helped him secure many successful outcomes for our members facing regulatory or disciplinary proceedings. 

Since 2017, Kashif has managed a team of highly experienced Legal Advisers at MPS. By working in close collaboration with our medical and dental colleagues, Kashif and our Legal Advisers continue to provide excellent legal representation for our members in a range of areas; specialising in defending them in proceedings before their regulator; with NHS and local disciplinary issues; and providing advice and representation at Inquest hearings. 

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Brian Caldwell-White

Case Manager

Brian is a case manager at Medical Protection, which he has been since 2018, after joining Medical Protection in 2014 with a background in civil law. Brian provides expert advice and assistance to our UK and Ireland members on medicolegal issues, support members on complaint handling, reviewing reports that members have been requested to supply on topics ranging from Police witness statements to Serious Untoward Incident reviews, and also reviewing statements that the Coroner has requested our members provide them. Having six years’ experience delivering legal advice, as either an advocate or legal representative, on matters ranging from simple disputes over faulty consumer goods to complicated legal arguments around Insolvency Laws and Scottish Land Law, and also running a successful and respected Court Duty Desk for Barnsley County Court`s housing possession and repossession list, Brian decided to pursue a career with Medical Protection. After working on Medical Protection`s successful member review team since joining Medical Protection in 2014, Brian decided that he would like to use his legal experience to pursue a career in medical law and ethics, and decided to start working towards obtaining a CILEx qualification, with a view to becoming a Chartered Legal Executive (FILEx). Brian is also working to obtain his Diploma in Legal Medicine, to further help our members deal with increasingly complex matters, that are detracting them from their main roles as clinicians.

Brian’s experiences in civil law, coupled with not being clinically trained, allows him to approach matters as an educated layperson and support members in a manner that compliments his clinically trained colleagues and therefore can offer a much more holistic service to our members.

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Dr Gabrielle Pendlebury

Medicolegal Consultant

Gabrielle joined Medical Protection in 2015 as a medicolegal consultant. She is also clinical lead for forensic adolescent services at Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust and acts privately as an expert witness. This combination of clinical practice and medicolegal training has proved invaluable for providing targeted advice and support to our members, especially in the current climate.

Gabrielle is committed to improving the working conditions and lives of all those working in healthcare and regularly writes for national publications, some of her articles can be accessed via twitter @PendlesGabriel.

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Beverley Hampshaw

Business Development Manager

Beverley Hampshaw is the Business Lead for Medical Protection in the UK for our medical membership. Based in Leeds, Beverley has worked for Medical Protection since 1997. Throughout her 24 years, Beverley’s role has evolved, initially working in the membership department across multiple teams and providing support to members.

In the last 13 years she has been part of the business development team working with her team of relationship managers across the UK and Northern Ireland supporting medical members on their career path from junior doctors to consultants, providing a bespoke and tailored Medical Protection journey.

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Alison Mee

Relationship Manager

Alison joined Medical Protection in 2015 and is the Relationship Manager supporting clinicians in secondary care throughout Scotland and Northern Ireland. 

Alison also manages our GP groups in Scotland and Northern Ireland, providing risk management training, and other support for all the members of these teams. She has a wealth of knowledge on memberships for all our medical healthcare professionals.

Alison’s background before joining Medical Protection is account management within the pharmaceutical industry and the design & print industry.

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Tel: 07896 823944

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James Neal

Relationship Manager

James joined Medical Protection as a Relationship Manager in the first quarter of 2017. Based in Sheffield, James supports clinicians in Secondary Care throughout Northern England, the Midlands and Wales.

James has ten years of experience in relationship management and business development, covering a wide variety of industries across the UK, Ireland and the United States. Outside of work James is an avid rugby player, a reluctant runner and a proud father to his two young daughters.

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David Rix

Relationship Manager

David joined Medical Protection in December 2018. Based in North London, he is the Relationship Manager for clinicians in Secondary Care in London, the South of England and the Channel Islands. David works closely with members to ensure their needs are being met, fielding questions about indemnity levels and discussing the various additional benefits available. 

David has over 15 years’ experience as an Account Manager where he managed clients from the public, private and third sectors. He has worked with a number of NHS Trusts to develop and deliver training and discussions on a range of wellbeing and diversity initiatives. His background includes employee wellbeing, professional development and risk management services.

[email protected]

Tel: 07583 061868

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Leena Sharma

Relationship Manager

Leena joined MPS in November 2018, and is the Relationship Manager for medical members in Wales, North London, Home counties, and the Midlands.

Leena is passionate about customer service and member experience. She has trained in several departments and uses this experience and knowledge when assisting members with their indemnity queries and helping them access the full benefits of their membership.

Leena’s experience over the years has been in account managing, customer service and as an executive assistant.

[email protected]

Tel: 07792 236368

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Dr Roger Palmer

Medicolegal Consultant Team Leader

Roger trained in academic paediatric oncology and is listed on the GMC’s Specialist Register in Paediatrics (Paediatric Oncology). He has a research and education background and left Cambridge in 2008, when he joined Medical Protection. He has a particular interest in the ethical aspects of paediatric practice, which he focused on in his Master of Laws degree.

Roger is the Medicolegal Consultant Team Leader. Based in London, he advises and represents doctors and other healthcare professionals in complex cases. He is also Vice Chair of the West London & GTAC Research Ethics Committee based at Hammersmith Hospital, and represents medicolegal practitioners on the Speciality Advisory Committee of the Faculty of Forensic & Legal Medicine.

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Dr Clare Stapleton

Medicolegal Consultant

Clare’s background is in anaesthesia and intensive care medicine. She worked as a consultant in the NHS for 16 years, before moving to Medical Protection in 2020. As an NHS Consultant, Clare set up the Medical Examiner Service in her Trust and held the role of Patient Safety and Mortality Lead.

She was also a College Tutor for Anaesthesia. Clare has extensive experience of leading Serious Incident Investigations and assisting the Coroner at inquest hearings. At Medical Protection, Clare is the Continuing Professional Development Co-ordinator for the cases team, arranging a variety of interesting internal and external speakers to support colleagues’ learning.

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Mohammed Bhatti

Relationship Manager

Mo Joined Medical Protection in November 2019, and is the Relationship Manager for Secondary Care throughout Northern England.

He has over 15 years’ experience in the customer service and business development sectors, having worked as a customer service team leader, and owned his own business.

Mo previously worked in the member services department and has an abundance of knowledge of our products and services to help fully support our members. He truly lives our Member First value.

[email protected]

Tel: 07540 201942

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