NCAP Implementation Group
The NCAP implementation group co-ordinates expert and specialist input into audit development and operation.
Belinda Lennox
Biography coming soon.
Stephen McGowan
Biography coming soon.
Veenu Gupta
Veenu Gupta, PhD Student in Psychology at the University of Liverpool, United Kingdom, and NCAP Service User Advisor to the EIP Audit in England, Wales and Ireland
Veenu is currently a Psychology PhD student at the University of Liverpool with expertise in both qualitative and quantitative approaches to research and has an MSc in Psychological research methods from University of Leicester. She is also a former Mental Health Nurse, having worked in acute mental health settings and assertive outreach and rehabilitation teams, supporting people with mental illnesses including psychosis, both at East London Foundation Trust and Leicestershire Partnership Trust.
Veenu works in her role as Service user Advisor for the NCAP, where she brings her personal knowledge of experiencing early intervention in psychosis services following her own diagnosis of psychosis. She believes in the value of early intervention services and these very services have influenced and shaped her own recovery over the years and prognosis following further relapse, providing Veenu with a source of motivation to further strengthen and contribute towards early intervention in psychosis services. This has motivated her work on the audit since 2018 to 2022 and her need to give back to the service in some way.
Veenu combines her personal experiences with her research skills to identify the needs of service users in early intervention in psychosis services and prioritise their needs in the NCAP audit. Veenu has also contributed to the refreshed guidelines of the Access and Waiting Time standard to Early Intervention in Psychosis services, as an Expert reference group member in 2020.
Veenu also works as a Service user Advisor to the EXTEND study and has helped develop and is co-chair of its patient and carer advisory group, part of a wider team that seeks to understand the optimal duration of early intervention services for patients with psychosis. Veenu is also Service user Advisor to a PhD fellow researcher and advisor to the Lancet Psychiatry commission into Psychosis. She very much thinks of herself as a lived experience researcher, combining each of her different identities, both personally and professionally, that she brings to the table as a fellow expert on the NCAP team.
