Liaison Psychiatrist 👨🏻⚕️. FRCPsych. RCPsych Psychiatric Educator of the Year 2020 😳 Self-harm, policing & mental health, staff wellbeing, adult protection
United Kingdom
Joined June 2013
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Our @TheLancetPsych article, "No safety without emotional safety", with @drdavidveale, Eleanor Robins and @ProfPaulGilbert is now available online
It's free to download without signing up until 14.01.2023 from this link - please retweet and share:
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Save the date!
We will be hosting our annual #ChoosePsychiatry X/Twitter Takeover next week, from 7 to 8pm on Thursday 14 November.
Please get involved and share your experiences and questions!
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If privatisation is so efficient and customer-positive let's privatise the roads. And if your response to that notion is "no, it'll be too expensive for an essential common good" then ask why we let it be done to every other essential service in the UK.
This feels analagous to the current capacity issues in the NHS. What happens when the hospital beds are full? What happens when the S. 136 suites and emergency depts. are full?
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True scale of the prisons crisis revealed today - worse than feared.
Senior prisons source tells media:
🔴Just 698 prison places left
🔴Running at 99% capacity for two years
🔴Riot or even bedbugs outbreak could tip balance
🔴Without action, August bank holiday the flashpoint
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Patients and carers are crucial partners in improving care. The impact of out of area placements and the benefit of continuity of care beautifully described in a personal family journey by @lovebillybragg #RCPsychIC
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New fully-funded Clinical Research Fellow in Psychiatry position available to join our research group in Edinburgh, working on @wellcometrust funded ambientbd.com project.
Enquiries very welcome, please apply below👇 Pls RT @rcpsychTrainees
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For those interested in patient safety & the need to support whistleblowers (in this case doctors) - there is a free conference @RoySocMed tomorrow afternoon.
#patientsafety #whistlebowers @rcpsych @rcpsychGAP @dredbeveridge @AlexBThomson
Link
To info;
justice4doctors.co.uk
In 2007, when every junior doctor in the UK was sacked and had to reapply for their own jobs, and the Government modified recruitment agency law to exempt NHS junior doctor recruitment from the standard safeguards
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Only in psychiatry are the most complex excluded from services (explicitly) because of their complexity. Imagine being turned away from the ED after an RTA because your injuries were too complex
My start line and finish line pics from the #LondonMarathon today!
4h09m! The fastest I've run a marathon before was 4h29m so I'm delighted to be 20 minutes quicker today 😀
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When yet another review finds "more leadership required", I wonder what kind is meant? I reckon the default is top-down clarity of direction & control. That's much easier to call for than the messy kind of open inclusive conversation amongst many people that's more often needed.
What's this I hear about Raspberry Ripple and Wild Berry Slushie flavoured Irn Bru? How long until they make it south to England, @SameiHuda?
It's unacceptable that in the 21st Century, residents of large parts of the UK have no access to treatment for life-threatening, disabling, but treatable conditions
We have to end this postcode lottery of mental health service quality and access
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We are counting down the days until the @rcpsychLiaison Conference. We are looking forward to welcoming some brilliant speakers including @pubmentalhealth, Dr Margaret Gani, Dr Emily Peckham. Book now t.ly/zBlCM
#Liaisonconf24
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📢We want to hear from people who know somebody with OCD and have supported or tried to help them:
Click the link to the survey now! psychiatryoxford.qualtrics.c…
Over-30s, UK only
Thank you! 🙏
#ocd #research @ocdaction @OCDUK @TOP_UK_National
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Are you helping or supporting someone with OCD? We need a few more people to participate in this research so we can find out about how best to support those who try to help! Promise James and I will provide info on what we find. Thanks!
📢We want to hear from people who know somebody with OCD and have supported or tried to help them:
Click the link to the survey now! psychiatryoxford.qualtrics.c…
Over-30s, UK only
Thank you! 🙏
#ocd #research @ocdaction @OCDUK @TOP_UK_National
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We're looking for a Director of Legal Services
You'll need to be a qualified Barrister or Solicitor with post-qualification experience
Closes 5 April 2024
Find out more:
orlo.uk/AsVcx
#Job
#JobSearch
#Recruitment
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