Psychiatry fellow and scholars

SPOTLIGHTED FELLOW

Dr. Daniel Maughan

RCPSYCH RESEARCH FELLOW IN SUSTAINABILITY 2013-15

Funded by the Royal College of Psychiatrists

Projects

  • Establishing a national discourse around the sustainability of mental health services
  • Gaining commitment from leading organisations in mental health to promote sustainability
  • Authoring high-impact reports, national guidance and publications, and presenting these regionally, nationally and internationally
  • Completing Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree program, with dissertation on measuring the triple bottom line in mental health services
  • Founding and establishing Psych Susnet (now known as the Mental Health Sustainability Network)

Peer-reviewed articles

  1. Maughan DL, Lillywhite R & Cooke M. (2016) Cost and carbon burden of long-acting injections: a sustainable evaluation. BJPsych Bulletin, 40(3): 132-136.
  2. Maughan DL & Davison P. (2015) The need for sustainable psychiatry. The Lancet Psychiatry, 2(8): 675-677.
  3. Maughan DL, Patel A, Parveen T, Braithwaite I, Cook J, Lillywhite R & Cooke M. (2015) Primary-care-based social prescribing for mental health: an analysis of financial and environmental sustainability. Primary health care research & development, 1-8.
  4. Malhotra A, Maughan DL, Ansell J, Lehman R, Henderson A, Gray M et al. (2015) Choosing Wisely in the UK: the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges' initiative to reduce the harms of too much medicine. BMJ, 350: h2308.
  5. Maughan DL & Berry HL (2015) Mind games: standing by while the world ignores climate change. BJPsych International, 12(2): 29–30.
  6. Maughan DL, & Pearce M. (2015). Reducing non-attendance rates in community psychiatry: a case for sustainable development? BJPsych International, 12(2): 36–39.
  7. Yarlagadda S, Maughan DL, Lingwood S & Davison P. (2014) Sustainable psychiatry in the UK. The Psychiatric Bulletin, 38(6): 285–90.
  8. Maughan DL, Berry H & Davison P. (2014). What psychiatrists should know about environmental sustainability and what they should be doing about it. International Psychiatry, 11(2): 27-30.

Reports/blogs/articles

  • Maughan DL (lead author) (Oct 2015) Guidance for commissioners of financially, environmentally, and socially sustainable mental health services. Joint Commissioning Panel for Mental Health
  • Maughan DL (lead author) (March 2015). Sustainability in Psychiatry. Occasional Paper. Royal College of Psychiatrists Press.
  • Maughan DL & Ansell J (lead authors) (Nov 2014). Academy of Medical Royal Colleges Report: Protecting resources, promoting value: a doctor’s guide to cutting waste in clinical care.
  • Maughan DL & Gibbs R (lead authors) (Sep 2014). Academy of Medical Royal Colleges Report: Facing the future; Sustainability for Medical Royal Colleges.
  • Maughan DL. (2014) BMJ Blogs: What has climate change got to do with mental health?
  • Maughan DL. (2013) A sustainable future. Mental Health Practice, 17(4), 13–13.
  • Maughan DL, Wallace S & Lillywhite R. (2014) Clinical practice: key to meeting the NHS's energy targets. Health Services Journal.

Presentations/TV and radio

  • May 2015 – BBC World News & Radio 5 Live: Interviewed about the Choosing Wisely Programme
  • Nov 2014 – BBC News 24 & Fourteen BBC Regional Radio stations:  Interviewed about the Protecting resources, promoting value report
  • Oct 2015 - Royal College of Nursing. Launch of the JCP-MH Sustainability Commissioning Guide
  • Oct 2014 - RCPsych National Sustainability Summit. Why Sustainability?
  • Oct 2014 - Personality Disorder National Conference. Are Personality Disorder Services Sustainable?
  • Oct 2014 - Academy of Medical Royal Colleges Sustainability in Medical Royal Colleges Launch. The state of Sustainability.
  • July 2014 - RCPsych International Congress. Sustainability and Parity of Esteem.
  • June 2014 - Choosing Wisely Roundtable, Amsterdam. Reducing Clinical Waste in the NHS.
  • July 2013 - RCPsych International Congress. Key Note: Sustainability; the New Frontier.
  • Mar 2013 - Sustaining Psychiatric Services. Prestigious Lecture Series, RCPsych

Summary

Daniel took two years out of specialist training in psychiatry to become a full-time Fellow with CSH, while studying for an MD at Warwick University.  His publications, presentations and national leadership moved the sustainability of mental health provision into the spotlight, with mental health organisations pledging to promote sustainable practice and commissioning of services.  Daniel founded Psych Susnet (Mental Health Sustainability Network) and established it with over 200 members.  Daniel’s work in designing policy to think sustainably, environmentally and ethically has been recognised with a President’s Medal from the Royal College of Psychiatrists. 

OTHER FELLOWS AND SCHOLARS

Dr. Emma Brandish

RCPSYCH SUSTAINABILITY SCHOLAR 2016-17

Dr Emma Brandish was a higher trainee in General Adult Psychiatry, based in Salisbury. Her scholarship was hosted by Wiltshire County Council working with both the local Public Health team and the Clinical Commissioning Group. She focused on quality improvement, behavioural change and the comorbidity between mental health problems and substance use.

Dr. David Gregory

RCPSYCH SUSTAINABILITY SCHOLAR 2016-17

David was a higher trainee in General Adult Psychiatry working in Brighton for Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. He explored a sustainable approach to mental health service commissioning with Brighton and Hove CCG.

Dr. Shiva Marjani

RCPSYCH SUSTAINABILITY SCHOLAR 2016-17

Shiva was a higher trainee in Psychiatry of Learning Disabilities in Oxford. She was one of five Scholars working one day per week on sustainability in mental health in 2016-17, and applyied sustainability principles to the bio-psycho-social model of psychiatric care, as well as in clinical leadership and management.

Dr. David Mclaughlan

RCPSYCH SUSTAINABILITY SCHOLAR 2016-17

David was a psychiatry trainee in South East London. Through his scholarship he worked with a rehabilitation team at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust to pilot the use of videoconferencing to reduce travel and increase contact with patients placed out-of-area.

Dr. Arif Ahmed

RCPSYCH SUSTAINABILITY SCHOLAR 2015-16

Arif was an old age psychiatry trainee in the north west. He was a GP for several years prior to his switch to mental health. He was one of four RCPsych scholars in 2015-16 and worked in tandem with Liverpool CCG on sustainable mental health. He was particularly interested in physical health outcomes in psychiatry and directing healthcare towards the community and primary care. 

Dr. Suhana Ahmed

RCPSYCH SUSTAINABILITY SCHOLAR 2015-16

Suhana was a dual higher trainee in old age and adult psychiatry, based in South London.  Through the Scholarship, she worked with Brighton & Hove CCG to incorporate aspects of sustainability into their commissioning for homeless people.

Dr. Oliver Bashford

RCPSYCH SUSTAINABILITY SCHOLAR 2015-16

At the time of his scholarship, Oliver was an ST6 in Older Adult Psychiatry, based in South London. His special interest is in sustainable healthcare and through the Scholarship he worked with City and Hackney CCG to implement a sustainable approach to commissioning in the mental health crisis pathway. Read Oliver's mid-scholarship progress report on Psych Susnet here

Dr. Mike Pearce

RCPSYCH SUSTAINABILITY SCHOLAR 2015-16

Mike was a Higher Trainee in Psychiatry.  He helped contribute to the Sustainability in Psychiatry Occasional Paper 57, and did research on reducing local did-not-attend rates.