Consultant Psychiatrist/ Senior Lecturer South London and
Maudsley NHS Trust/ KGT
I am a sector consultant responsible for 55000 population with
two other consultants and a specialist registrar. I share a 23-
bedded acute unit and am involved with the community team.
I have 4 academic/ R&D sessions. I spend one session working
in the psychosexual problems clinic for which I am the
consultant in charge. I spend another working with the IM&T
strategy for the trust. I have been involved in the development
of a clinically orientated PAS using Lotus Notes. I have a
particular responsibility for CPA. I was College tutor for 18
months and the Director of Post Graduate Medical Education for
6 months. I have been Clinical Director for Lewisham for 2
years. I chair the Lewisham Clinical Governance committee. I
am scheme organiser for the GKT SHO scheme (118 SHOs).
Head of Division, Defence Services Psychiatric Centre –
Catterick, North Yorkshire.
I was responsible for closing the in-patient facility at the Queen
Elizabeth Military Hospital Woolwich and opening a new unit in
Catterick. The unit consists of 34 beds and is the UK in patient
facility for the three services. There is an establishment for
four consultants and eight junior psychiatrists in training.
There were two other consultants in post. The unit provides a
specialist assessment, treatment and referral centre for
posttraumatic stress disorder and alcohol/substance abuse as