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About the Faculty
The purpose of the Faculty of General and Community Psychiatry
is to liaise with and help educate and inform its members,
colleagues within the College and external statutory and voluntary
groups and agencies. We believe that this will support the aim of
improving the standard of care given to those who look to us for
help.
Due to
increasing subspecialisation it is important that members
views are adequately represented. The Faculty are trying to improve
ways of communicating with individuals working within these
specialist areas.
Please use this link to view further
information on how to update your areas of interest and ensure
that you receive information from the Faculty relating to your area
of expertise.
It is important that we hear your
views to keep this process moving forward. Please
email us with feedback, questions or concerns.
Improving the
effectiveness of the Faculty
One of the recent developments within the Faculty is to look at
ways to improve the effectiveness of the Faculty and to find new
ways to involve members more. The Faculty Executive hope to
begin to address these problems by changing the executive
structure, function and representation within the College.
The problems that need to be
addressed are the increased workload for the General and
Community Faculty as the remit of the Executive is broader
than other Faculties, increasing subspecialisation of General and
Community Psychiatry, less opportunities for members to contribute
to the Executive in proportion to its membership as it follows a
similar structure to other Faculties, and lack of knowledge about
individual members due to the large number of members.
View the document "Improving
the Effectiveness of the General and Community Faculty Executive
Committee" . This outlines a proposal to change the structure
of the Faculty and to develop networks within various clinical
areas. The first two networks in Crisis Resolution and Home
Treatment and Primary Care Liaison will be launched at the Faculty
conference in October.
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Structure of the
Faculty
A diagram outlining the Structure of the Faculty is shown
below:
If you would like to be involved within a network or if you
would like to suggest a future network please email
us.
How to
join
- To join one of the Faculty Networks, you must be a member of
the College. If you would like to join one of the four Networks,
please email stating
which Network you would like to join (Primary Care, CRHT, Community
Diversion and Prison Psychiatry, Early Intervention). You will then
be added to a discussion forum for the relevant Network.
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