Edited by Alvaro Barrera, Consultant Psychiatrist, Warneford Hospital, Oxford and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer, University of Oxford, UK, Caroline Attard, Consultant Nurse and Head of Quality improvement programme, , Berkshire Health Care Foundation Trust, UK, and Rob Chaplin, Clinical Lead for Accreditation at the Royal College of Psychiatrists' Centre for Quality Improvement, Royal College of Psychiatrists, London, UK
Alvaro Barrera is a Consultant Psychiatrist, at the Warneford Hospital, Oxford, an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer, Oxford University Department of Psychiatry, and a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. He completed a MSc in neurobiology and behavioural science and subsequently completed a PhD at the University of Cambridge, UK, where he also trained in neuropsychiatry. His research interests comprise transforming inpatient care using digital technology and organisational approaches, the psychopathology and cognitive neuroscience of severe mental illness, as well as empathy in clinical psychiatry.
Caroline Attard is currently the Director of Quality Improvement working in Berkshire Health Foundation Trust in the UK. Her career and expertise spans over 20 years working in her native country Malta and in the United Kingdom. She specialises in in-patient mental health nursing and Quality Improvement. She has worked as an in-patient mental health Nurse Consultant which consisted of education, clinical leadership, research and service improvement. Caroline has taught on under and post graduate level mental health nursing programmes at various universities. She has also developed and facilitated various in-house training programmes on a variety of subjects including suicide prevention, risk training and psycho social interventions. She has developed a preceptorship programme for newly qualified mental health. nurses which focuses on resilience and uses methods such as action learning sets and quality improvement methodology
Rob Chaplin has recently retired from the National Health Service where he worked in an inpatient and formerly community mental health care as a Consultant Psychiatrist in General Adult Psychiatry. He is currently working as Clinical Lead for Accreditation at the Royal College of Psychiatrists' Centre for Quality Improvement. He worked in Oxford, UK for the last 16 years at the Warneford and Littlemore Hospitals and has co authored more than 60 peer reviewed publications in the field of mental health service research. He has trained doctors at all stages of psychiatric training.
Caroline Attard, Consultant Nurse and Head of Quality improvement programme , Berkshire Health Care Foundation Trust, UK
Agnes Ayton, Consultant Psychiatrist and Medical Lead, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, UK
Tomasz Bajorek, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK
Theodoros Bargiotas, Consultant Psychiatrist, MSc, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Ian Barkataki, University of Bristol, UK
Alvaro Barrera, Consultant Psychiatrist, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer, University of Oxford, UK
Sandeep Bhatti, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Sophie Behrman, Honorary Clinical Research Fellow, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, UK
German E. Berrios, Emeritus Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK
Gwen Bonner, Berkshire Health Care Foundation Trust, UK
Rachel Brown, Clinical Lead Pharmacist - Medicines Information and Evidence Based Medicine, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Tom Burns, Emeritus Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Julie Chalmers, Consultant Psychiatrist, The Elms Centre, Banbury, and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer, University of Oxford, UK
Catriona Canning, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Rob Chaplin, Clinical Lead for Accreditation at the Royal College of Psychiatrists' Centre for Quality Improvement, Royal College of Psychiatrists, London, UK
Gail Critchlow, Consultant Psychiatrist, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Dorcas Dan-Cooke, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Karen Dauncey, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Emad Sidhom, Specialty Doctor, Ashurst Ward PICU, UK
Lara Freeman, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Valeria Frighi, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Georga Godwin, Consultant Solicitor, UK
Jonathan Gibbons, Occupational Therapist, Warneford Hospital, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Jonathan Hafferty, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, UK
Derek Hammond, Adult Acute Operational Lead, Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust, UK
Jean Hammond, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Anthony James, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Highfield Unit and Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of Oxford, Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, UK
Claudia Kustner, Clinical Psychologist, Berkshire Health Care Foundation Trust, UK
Belinda Lennox, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Sue McLaughlin, Berkshire Health Care Foundation Trust, UK
Orla Macdonald, Lead Reseach Pharmacist, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Michelle Mbayiwa, Berkshire Health Care Foundation Trust, UK
Andrew Molodynski, Consultant Psychiatrist, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust and Honorary Senior Lecturer, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
Nicki Moone, Senior Lecturer, College of Nursing Midwifery and Healthcare, University West London, UK
Christopher Morton, Social Worker, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Brian Murray, Consultant Older Adult Psychiatry, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, Aylesbury, UK
Arabella Norman-Nott, Consultant Psychiatrist, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Janet Patterson, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Steve Pearce, Consultant Psychiatrist, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Alyson Price, Prospect Park Hospital, Reading, Berrkshire, UK
David Price, Department of Mental Health Social Work & Interprofessional Learning, Middlesex University, London, UK
Helen Robson, Clinical Nurse Specialist , Berkshire Health Care Foundation Trust, UK
Louise Ross, Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust, UK
Ashley Rule, Consultant Psychiatrist, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Mark Toynbee, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Katalin Walsby, Berkshire Health Care Foundation Trust, UK
Rose Warne, Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust, UK
David Welchew, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Dan White, Specialist Clinical Pharmacist, BABCP accredited CBT Psychotherapist, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, UK
