Dr Jon Norman

Dr Jon Norman is a Consultant in Pain Medicine and Anaesthesia at Dudley Group Foundation NHS Trust and an expert witness. He has served as a Consultant in Pain Medicine since 2005. His principal areas of expertise include the assessment and management of chronic, acute and cancer pain, with specialist interests in chronic back pain, post-surgical pain, complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS), neuropathic pain, persistent spinal pain syndrome (PSPS), failed back surgery syndrome (FBSS) and phantom limb pain.

With more than three decades of clinical experience, Dr Norman provides specialist care for adults with complex and persistent pain conditions. His practice encompasses comprehensive pain assessment, pharmacological management and a range of interventional pain techniques, including regional nerve blocks performed using anatomical guidance, nerve stimulation or ultrasound. He has extensive experience in developing and leading multidisciplinary pain services and has worked across NHS, military and specialist pain settings, managing patients with challenging and long-term pain disorders. In addition to his clinical practice, Dr Norman is Co-Chair of the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) Ethics Committee and serves on its Audit Committees, reflecting his recognised leadership within pain medicine. His combination of extensive clinical experience, service development expertise and national leadership supports his authority in the assessment and management of complex pain conditions.

Dr Jon Norman has been undertaking medico-legal work since 2010, providing independent expert opinion in both Clinical Negligence and Personal Injury claims relating to all aspects of pain management. He accepts instructions from claimants, defendants and on a joint basis, offering balanced and objective opinions across a broad range of pain-related disputes. His medico-legal practice focuses on complex pain conditions, including chronic pain, neuropathic pain, cancer pain, back pain, post-surgical pain, complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS), persistent spinal pain syndrome (PSPS), failed back surgery syndrome (FBSS) and phantom limb pain. Dr Norman prepares reports addressing screening, breach of duty, causation, and condition and prognosis for adult claimants, applying his extensive clinical expertise in pain medicine to deliver clear, evidence-based opinions for the court and legal professionals.

Dr Norman's current clinical practice centres on the assessment and management of adults with complex acute, chronic and cancer-related pain conditions. He routinely evaluates patients with persistent spinal pain, chronic back pain, neuropathic pain, post-surgical pain, complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS), failed back surgery syndrome (FBSS), phantom limb pain and other challenging pain disorders that require specialist multidisciplinary management.

His day-to-day practice combines detailed clinical assessment with the development of individualised treatment strategies, incorporating pharmacological pain management alongside interventional procedures where appropriate. He has extensive experience performing regional nerve blocks using anatomical guidance, nerve stimulation and ultrasound, enabling targeted treatment for patients with complex pain syndromes.

His clinical work also includes managing patients with cancer pain and persistent pain conditions requiring long-term specialist input. In addition to delivering direct patient care, Dr Norman has significant expertise in the development and leadership of multidisciplinary pain services, helping to improve access to specialist pain management and optimise patient outcomes. This broad clinical practice provides him with extensive experience in diagnosing, investigating and treating a wide spectrum of complex pain conditions encountered in contemporary pain medicine.

Dr Norman has an extensive publication record in pain medicine, with peer-reviewed papers, book chapter authorship and numerous presentations at national and international conferences. He has also held an Honorary Lecturer appointment at the Institute of Cancer Research, reflecting his longstanding contribution to education and the advancement of clinical practice within pain medicine.