For solicitors and insurers
Independent cardiology opinions and medico legal reports.
Dr Jogiya accepts selected instructions for independent cardiology opinions and medico legal reports within his areas of expertise. Enquiries from solicitors, insurers and other professional organisations are considered individually.
This page is for professional enquiries about reports and opinions. If you are looking for an appointment with Dr Jogiya as a patient, everything you need is on the booking page. If your symptoms are severe, or they have come on suddenly, call 999 now rather than waiting for an appointment.
Scope
What an instruction can cover.
An instruction is a specialist clinical review of the material you send, answered in writing. His clinical practice is in heart rhythm disorders, cardiac imaging, cardiovascular prevention and general cardiology, and an instruction is accepted only where the questions sit inside that.
- Cardiology correspondence, clinic letters and medical records.
- Electrocardiograms and ambulatory rhythm monitoring, read alongside the person's symptoms and history.
- Echocardiograms, cardiac MRI, cardiac CT and other cardiac investigation reports.
- A diagnosis that has already been made, and investigations or treatment that have been proposed or carried out.
- Cardiovascular risk, blood pressure and cholesterol results, including where there is a family history of heart disease.
Every recording and every result is read in the context of the person's symptoms and history. A rhythm strip on its own does not carry enough information to answer a clinical question. Where a further examination or investigation would be needed to answer a question properly, he will say so rather than answer around it.
A report is prepared for the instructing party. It is not medical advice to the person it concerns, and it creates no treating relationship with them.
Credentials
The basis of the opinion.
Dr Jogiya is a consultant cardiologist at Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust and at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, and he sees private patients across Kingston, Richmond, Surrey and London. He is on the GMC Specialist Register in cardiology, GMC 6105400, which anyone can check on the public register.
He holds a postgraduate diploma in medical law and ethics from Keele University, taken alongside his clinical training, and a PhD in cardiac MRI from King's College London. He is an Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London.
He also holds SCMR level 3 in cardiac magnetic resonance, SCCT level 2 in cardiac CT, the British Society of Echocardiography transthoracic examination and the British Heart Rhythm Society examination in electrophysiology and devices.
He is a practising clinician rather than a full time medico legal practitioner. Instructing parties are welcome to ask for his curriculum vitae before deciding whether he is the right person for the matter.
Before anything is accepted
How an instruction is considered.
Every enquiry is looked at individually, and three things are settled before anything is accepted.
Scope. Whether the questions fall within his areas of clinical expertise. Where they do not, he will say so rather than take the instruction on.
Conflicts. He cannot accept an instruction where he has treated the person concerned, where he has been clinically involved in the care under review, or where he has any other interest that could affect his independence. He holds NHS posts at two trusts and sees private patients at clinics across Kingston and London, so please name the parties and the treating organisations in your first message and this can be checked before anything else is discussed. Please do not send medical records, reports or images at that stage.
Capacity. His clinical commitments come first, so instructions are accepted selectively.
No fee is published here. Fees depend on the papers involved, the questions asked and the form the opinion takes, and they are agreed with the instructing party before any work begins. He does not quote a timescale before he has seen what is involved.