Standing Committees of Council
Central Policy Coordination Committee
(CPCC)
CPCC focuses on any central policy issues which affect the work
of all members. It
- overviews, develops, and takes forward
College policy across the jurisdictions, ensuring that it is
updated when appropriate, often through the establishment of
time-limited working groups;
- co-ordinates and disseminates College
responses to Council and across all College
jurisdictions;
- ensures a consistent approach to policy and
legislation across relevant College jurisdictions, and the sharing
of information and expertise;
- communicates policy effectively to the
membership and the external environment;
- develops new policy working with College
Officers and membership.
Chaired by: College
Registrar: Dr Laurence Mynors-Wallis and Deputy Registrar
(Policy): Dr Ola Junaid
Contact person: Claire Churchill
Programmes and Meetings Committee (PMC)
Role: A small advisory committee which is
responsible for co-ordinating the timetable of College conferences,
including the College’s Annual Meeting, and conferences organised
by Faculties, Sections and Special Interest Groups.
Chaired by: The Director of Conferences: Dr
Helen Miller
Contact person: Caroline
Simms
Public Education Committee
Role: The Public Education Committee (PEC) aims
to achieve greater awareness and understanding of mental illness
and psychiatry by the media and the general public, and to promote
its successes in order to overcome prejudice and fear. The
Committee promotes awareness of the College and its functions, and
has become one of the main sources of information on mental illness
and psychiatry for the media. The Committee also disseminates
information to people who suffer from mental illness and their
carers, and generates media coverage nationally as well as
regionally.
Chaired by: Deputy Registrar (Public Education
and Patients and Carers): Dr Peter Byrne
Contact person: Thomas
Kennedy
The Public Education Committee has a sub-committee:
Role: The PEC Editorial Sub-Committee aims to
produce, review and disseminate written mental health materials for
the general public and ensure the production and distribution of
materials of the highest quality
Chaired by: Co-opted member of the Public
Education Committee: Dr Philip Timms
Contact person: Deborah Hart
Publications Management Board (PMB)
Role: Deals with all business matters relating
to College journals, books and other publications.
Chaired by: Editor: Professor Peter Tyrer
Contact person: Dave Jago
Psychiatric Trainees Committee (PTC)
Role: The Psychiatric
Trainees' Committee (PTC) aims to represent the interests of
trainees within the College and to maintain and improve the quality
of postgraduate psychiatric training. The PTC has produced reports
on various aspects of training including: research training,
management training, violence and trainees and the Trainees’
Charter, which has been endorsed as College policy. This seeks to
increase awareness of trainees’ educational rights while also
recognising their clinical responsibilities. The PTC is represented
on most College's Committees, including Central Executive (on which
the Chair, Vice-Chair and Honorary Secretary are all members), and
the Education Training and Standards Committee (on which the Chair
is a member). The PTC organises an annual Trainees Forum and a
national Trainees residential weekend.
Membership:
Three elected representatives from each
College Division in England, three elected representatives from
Wales, two elected representatives from each of the three regions
in Scotland, three elected representatives from Northern Ireland,
and one elected representative from each of three regions of the
Republic of Ireland. A chair, a Vice-Chair, and an Honorary
Secretary are elected from the Committee's membership.
Contact person: Rebecca
Cove