Professional Profile

Catherine Chadwick is a Registered Mental Health Nurse, Independent Prescriber and experienced medico-legal expert with extensive expertise across adult mental health, child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS), forensic mental health, psychiatric risk assessment and professional nursing standards. She has practised across community, inpatient, forensic, educational and leadership settings throughout her career and has provided expert witness services since 2018.

She currently combines clinical leadership and prescribing responsibilities within specialist ADHD services with ongoing medico-legal practice. Her clinical expertise includes severe and enduring mental illness, psychosis, personality disorder, complex trauma, risk management, self-harm, suicide risk, offending behaviour, ADHD, community mental health nursing and multidisciplinary care delivery.

Catherine accepts instructions in both Claimant and Defendant matters and also advises the Nursing and Midwifery Council on Fitness to Practise proceedings. Her medico-legal work requires detailed analysis of healthcare records, witness evidence, professional standards and clinical decision-making to provide independent opinion to courts and tribunals.

Alongside her clinical and medico-legal practice, Catherine has held senior academic appointments including Senior Lecturer in Mental Health Nursing and Course Lead for BSc Mental Health Nursing programmes, contributing to professional education, research and standards of nursing practice.