scholarly journals Profile: Vanessa Cameron – 36 years at the Royal College of Psychiatrists

2016 ◽  
Vol 40 (6) ◽  
pp. 341-345
Author(s):  
Rob Poole ◽  
Catherine A. Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Royal College ◽  
Chief Executive ◽  
Continuous Change ◽  
Mental Hospitals

On 16 December 2016, Vanessa Cameron retires as Chief Executive of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. She started working there in September 1980 and in 1984 she became Secretary of the College, the role that preceded chief executive. The College was formed in 1971, so Vanessa has been present for most of its lifetime. It has been a period of continuous change that has seen psychiatry leave the old mental hospitals, expand considerably in the late 1990s and early part of the 21st century, and come under huge pressure more recently. Although she has never worked within mental health services, Vanessa has been at the heart of British psychiatry for 36 years. She was awarded an MBE in the 2013 New Year's Honours list for services to psychiatry.

scholarly journals New Ways of Working is dead, long live New Ways of Working! Revised joint guidance on the employment of consultant psychiatrists

2010 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 149-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Clark
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Royal College ◽  
Professional Roles ◽  
Good Practices ◽  
New Ways Of Working ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
Team Functioning

SummaryIn 2005 the Royal College of Psychiatrists, the NHS Confederation, the National Institute for Mental Health in England and the Department of Health jointly produced the first edition of the Joint Guidance on the Employment of Consultant Psychiatrists. This was integral to the New Ways of Working initiative and outline different professional roles within mental health services. Four years on the document has been extensively revised. The new 2009 edition emphasises achieving viable and satisfying consultant posts through effective job planning and good team functioning. It also contains guidance on recruitment processes with useful examples of templates, flowcharts and good practices.

scholarly journals Activity in a district psychotherapy service

1994 ◽  
Vol 18 (9) ◽  
pp. 544-547 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Tillett
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Royal College ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Local Mental Health ◽  
South West ◽  
Major Teaching

The Royal College of Psychiatrists (1991) has recommended that all local mental health services should include specialist psychotherapy departments. At present these are uncommon outside major teaching centres, although a considerable amount of simple psychotherapy is provided on an ad hoc basis by mental health professionals of various disciplines. This paper describes the structure, functioning and costs of a specialist department in a non-teaching district in the south west of England.

scholarly journals Service user, patient, survivor or client … has the time come to return to ‘patient’?

2016 ◽  
Vol 209 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
David M. B. Christmas ◽  
Angela Sweeney
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Royal College ◽  
Service User ◽  
The Uk

SummaryRecently, the Council of the UK Royal College of Psychiatrists agreed to use the term ‘patient’ as the preferred collective noun when referring to people accessing mental health services in its official documentation. Choices regarding terminology have the power to influence those who use such terms and here, David Christmas and Angela Sweeney debate the issue of whether such a decision is appropriate or whether we need to be more careful about the terms we use.

scholarly journals Take your partners please

2007 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 272-275
Author(s):  
David Yeomans
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Early Intervention ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Royal College ◽  
Voluntary Sector ◽  
Early Intervention Services ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
Clinical Responsibility ◽  
Adult Psychiatry

Partnership working with the voluntary sector is developing across mental health services. Such partnerships have the support of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the Department of Health. Setting up a partnership requires enthusiastic psychiatrists who are willing to work in new ways. These psychiatrists will face issues of personal and clinical responsibility, confidentiality and fairness. They will also have to deal with continuing changes that could unsettle a new and developing collaboration. Early intervention services may use partnerships more than other adult psychiatry services, but partnerships could be established in any specialty. Psychiatrists should make sure that appropriate evaluation is built into any new partnership.

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