A Psychiatrist in the SouthWest of England with an interest in improving the training of Mental Health Professionals. Views are my own.
Back in 2016, dissatisfied with the obligation the GMC puts on me to collect feedback from patients that I find hard to collect and harder still to parse into actionable changes in my practice, I decided to…
Over some years of training junior psychiatrists in consultation skills, I began to notice a pattern. We (me and my co-trainer, Hannah Toogood) were relatively successful at training…
As part of our work on the Crisis Concordat here in Gloucestershire, we’ve been giving some thought to how we get feedback from patients. It’s an unfashionable thing to say but I think most of the formal feedback I’m obliged to collect at work (as a clinician or as a…
Here in Gloucestershire, we have been working away on the Crisis Concordat. One of the first things we found was that the concordat document itself didn’t really give us enough guidance as to what a crisis actually is. We came up with a…
I am the module coordinator for the communication skills module of the MRCPsych course in Severn Deanery. This course provides one day a week training for core trainees (residents) in psychiatry across a range of subjects specified by the Royal…