Royal College of Psychiatrists

Remember to book your place for the Adolescent Forensic Psychiatry SIG Annual Conference. View the event web page to find confirmed speakers and talks, and book your place to join us in London.

View speakers, talks, and book here: tinyurl.com/AFPSIG26Book
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You can watch yesterday's #rcpsychAwards and find details of the winners across all of our awards categories, from psychiatrists of all grades and levels of training, to teams working throughout mental health care.
rcpsych.ac.uk/about-us/rcpsy…

A huge thank you to all in attendance, as well as those of you who joined us virtually. Thank you to all the nominees for their work this year. Congratulations to all the winners, thank you to the presenters, and a big thank you the staff who helped put the event on.

SEE YOU NEXT YEAR!

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Our final award of the day is the highly sought-after Psychiatrist of the Year award.

The judges were looking for a psychiatrist who had made a positive impact on patients’ and carers’ wellbeing; raised the positive image of psychiatry; and worked towards achieving parity of esteem between mental and physical health.

This year’s nominees are:

- Dr Vellingiri Raja Badrakalimuthu
- Dr Bruce Clark
- Dr Annabel Price

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The final team award is for Psychiatric Team of the Year: Working age adults.

In this category, the judges were looking for an outstanding team, this time that improves services for working-age adults.

The nominees in this category are:
- NHS Primary Care Gambling Service,
- North East and North Cumbria Staff Mental Health and Wellbeing Hub
- Willow Team
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