Media coverage - September 2011

A selection of articles and programmes from September 2011 that mention the Royal College of Psychiatrists or its publications, promote research published in one of the College's journals, or quote the College's media experts and Members.

 

 

Date

 

 

Publication/Programme

 

Summary

1 September

Story picked up by: Dentistry, Health Insurance and Protection

BJPsych press release: Tooth loss three times higher in people with severe mental illness

e.g. Dentistry

 

1 September Story picked up by: Nursing in Practice

BJPsych press release: People with mental disorders at greater risk of alcohol problems

e.g. Nursing in Practice

 

10 September BMA News Students flock to psychiatry careers fairs

A summer school organised jointly by the Institute of Psychiatry and RCPsych is popular with medical students.

 

10 September BMA News Psychiatrists challenge bid to drop depression from QOF

With quote from RCPsych President Professor Sue Bailey.

 

10 September BMA News Projecting a positive image of psychiatry

RCPsych Associate Registrar for Recruitment Dr Tom Brown, RCPsych Lead for Workforce Dr Andy Clark and RCPsych Psychiatric Trainees Committee chair Dr Josie Jenkinson are all interviewed.

 

20 September Daily Mail

Electric-shock therapy lifted me from the hell of depression
With comment from PEC member Dr Cosmo Hallstrom

 

22 September BBC Radio Scotland

Call Kaye

Dr Andrew McIntosh, a member of RCPsych in Scotland, joined a discussion about bipolar disorder, to mark Scotland’s Bipolar Awareness Week.

 

22 September BMJ Careers 15 minutes with...Professor Sue Bailey

The RCPsych President talks about her career.

 

22 September Community Care CAMHS cuts see younger children miss out on support

With quotes from Dr Margaret Murphy, chair of the RCPsych Faculty of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

 

30 September

Report given to the BBC as an exclusive and story covered by: BBC News Online, BBC Breakfast, and many BBC local radio stations.

Story also covered by: The Scotsman, Community Care, THE, NetDoctor

 

Students' mental health 'at risk', psychiatrists warn

BBC health correspondent Branwen Jeffreys reports exclusively on a new RCPsych report on the mental health of students in higher education.

 

 

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