- Central Policy Coordination Committee
- Programmes and Meetings Committee
- Public Education Committee
- Publications Management
Board
- Psychiatric
Trainees Committee
6 . Patients' and Carers'
Committee
1. Central Policy Coordination Committee (CPCC)
Role:
a To strategically overview,
develop, and take forward College policy across the jurisdictions,
ensuring that it is updated when appropriate, often through the
establishment of time-limited working groups.
b To coordinate and disseminate College
responses drafted by the Divisional Policy Committees to the
Central Executive Committee (CEC), and across all College
jurisdictions.
c To ensure a consistent approach to
policy and legislation across relevant College jurisdictions, and
the sharing of information and expertise.
d To communicate policy effectively
to, and to develop suggestions from, the College membership.
Chaired by: College
Registrar/Deputy Registrar
Membership:
Registrar, Deputy Registrar, Divisional Chairs or nominated
representatives, Chairs of Divisional Parliamentary Liaison
Committees or nominated representatives, Faculty representatives,
Collegiate Trainees’ Committee representatives, representatives
from the CRTU, members from Council who have elected to join,
co-opted members, patient and carer representatives.
Number of meetings per annum: 4 + 1
provisional
Reports to: Central Executive Committee (CEC)
Contact person: Thomas Kennedy
2.
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
Membership: The Director of Conferences,
President, Dean/CPD Director, Representatives/Academic Secretaries
of the Faculties and Sections, Collegiate Trainees’ Committee
representative
Number of meetings per annum: 2
Contact person: Caroline Simms, conference@rcpsych.ac.uk
3.
Public Education Committee (PEC)
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: Director of Public Education, Dr Mike
McClure
Membership: Director of Public Education, Faculty
representatives, Collegiate Trainees' Committee representative,
College Research Unit representative, Special Committee of Patients
and Carers representative and co-opted members.
Number of meetings per annum: 4 (+1 provisional
extra meeting)
Contact person: Thomas Kennedy, External Affairs
Administrator tkennedy@rcpsych.ac.uk
The Public Education Committee has a sub-committee:
The PEC Editorial 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
Membership: Co-opted members of the Public
Education Committee, Head of External Affairs, Sales and Marketing
Manager, Library and Information Assistant
Number of meetings per annum: 6
Contact person: Deborah Hart, Head of External
Affairs, dhart@rcpsych.ac.uk
4. Publications Management Board (PMB)
Role: Deals with all business matters relating
to College journals, books and other publications.
Chaired by: Editor
Membership: Editor, President, Treasurer,
Professor Anne Farmer (co-opted
member), Mr Howard Croft (Publications Adviser), College
Secretary, Head of Publications, Head of Financial Services, Sales
and Marketing Manager
Number of meetings per annum: 10-12
Contact person: Dave Jago, Head of Publications
djago@rcpsych.ac.uk
5. Psychiatric Trainees
Committee (PTC)
Role of the
Committee:
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.
Number of meetings per annum:
5
Contact person:
Patricia McCullum, Workforce and Education
Manager
pmccullum@rcpsych.ac.uk
Telephone
number: 020 7235 2351
Role of the Committee:
The Patients’ and Carers’ Committee (PCC) is a Standing
Committee of the Central Executive Committee (CEC). It is
co-chaired by the College Registrar and a lay representative
elected from the PCC membership. It brings together members of the
College and representatives from a wide range of patients' and
carers' organisations.
The Committee acts as a channel of
communication through which to inform the College of patients' and
carers' views and patient and carer organisations of College
policy. The Committee has representation on Central Executive
Committee (CEC) and other College committees and working parties.
It is a forum of debate from which advice is solicited on issues of
importance.
Through its activities, the Committee aims to
initiate reforms in psychiatric training, practice and policy, to
join with the profession in lobbying for the cause of those with
mental health problems or learning disabilities, and to give a more
powerful voice to patients and carers themselves.
Size of Committee:
Agreed maximum of 40, including members of the
College, patients and carers.
Membership:
PCC is co-chaired by the Registrar of the
College and a lay representative elected from the membership for a
3-year term of office.
The membership of PCC is reviewed
annually.
Contact person: Thomas
Kennedy tkennedy@rcpsych.ac.uk