Resources from past events

Please note that these resources are for your information only and should not be used or duplicated elsewhere. 

If the presentation you are looking for has not been included, please call the Royal College of Psychiatrists office for further information: 0131 220 2910.

Please email scotland@rcpsych.ac.uk if you would like a copy of any of the following presentations:

  • Dr Tim Agnew "How to make your service more Personality Disorder friendly"
  • Dr Marie Boilson "The Fife Experience"
  • Dr David Gerber "What General Adult Psychiatrists should know about Gender Identity"
  • Dr Shelia Howitt "Concerta XL in Adult ADHD Offenders (CIA0-II)"
  • Dr Lesley Hunter "Safety and Stabilisation Techniques for General Adult Psychiatrists" 
  • Dr Ishbel MacIver  "The Glasgow Experience"
  • Dr Neil Masson "ADHD in Adults across Scotland"
  • Dr Premal Shah "The Edinburgh Experience"

If the presentation you are looking for has not been included, please call the Royal College of Psychiatrists office for further information: 0131 220 2910.


Please email scotland@rcpsych.ac.uk if you would like a copy of any of the following presentations:

Thursday 28

  • Dr Roch Cantwell - Update on RCPsychiS Healthy Start Healthy Scotland campaign
  • Bob Fraser - GIRFEC and the Children and Young People Act
  • Dr Patricia Jackson - Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder - Better Identification, Better Outcomes?
  • Dr Shaun Love - Calculating QT Intervals: Formula Choice Affects Clinical Practice
  • Dr Ashleigh Macaulay - Improving the quality and effectiveness of Risk Assessment and Management using Scottish Patient Safety Programme Methodology
  • Dr Cara McDonald - Surveying the Pillars: PDS in review
  • Dr Claire McGhee - Effectiveness of first generation antipsychotic (FGA) and second generation antipsychotic (SGA) long-acting injections (LAIs) in clinical practice
  • Dr Hinesh Topiwala - Lifestyle and neurodegeneration in midlife as expressed on fMRI: a systematic review
  • Dr Fionnghuala Murphy - Joint Assessment Overnight with Mental Health Nurse Practitioners: Surveying Junior Doctors on the Effects on Patient Care and Training Experience
  • Dr Gill Paterson - Novel Psychoactive Substance use in a Forensic Mental Health Setting
  • Dr Chetana Patil - Mental health conditions in children with Genetic Learning Disabilities attending a Learning Disability Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service in NHS Grampaign

Friday 29 September

  • Dr Andrea Williams - Personality Disorder in Scotland; where are we now? A progress report from the RCPsychiS PD working group
  • Professor Guy Goodwin - Mood instability and bipolar disorder: a new target for new treatments
  • Professor Helen Minnis - Maltreatment and mental health
  • Professor David Cunningham-Owens - Pyschopharmacology: the con-man's discipline

Please email: scotland@rcpsych.ac.uk if you would like a copy of any of the following presentations:

  • Dr Jane Cheeseman - Quality Improvement in Psychiatry: SCAMPering around Scotland
  • Dr Timothy Agnew - The Decider Skills Package in Highland
  • Dr Ihsan Kader and Dr Rachel Brown - No Place like Home (Treatment)
  • Dr Neil Masson - Turning a corner: An update on adult ADHD in Scotland
  • Prof. Mike Crawford - Innovation, improvement and assurance: The role of RCPsych in efforts to improve the quality of mental health services

Please email scotland@rcpsych.ac.uk if you would like a copy of any of the following presentations:

  • Sarah Paget - Accreditation for Inpatient Mental Health Services - Improving the quality of acute adult inpatient care
  • Dr Elaine Lockhart & Dr Olwyn Gallagher - Transitions from Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services to General Adult Psychiatry - issues to consider and best practice
  • Dr Elaine Lockhart & Dr Olwyn Gallagher - CAMHS admissions to General Adult Wards

  • Dr David Walsh and Dr Gordon Cowan -  Trainee Update 
  • Professor Lindsay Thomson - Scottish Mental Health Act Update 
  • Dr Helen Smith -  Forensic CAMHS: Now and the Future
  • HM Chief Inspector Wendy Sinclair-Gieben -  Who Cares? The Lived Experience of Older Prisoners in Scotland’s Prisons 
  • Dr Patrick O’Sullivan -  Forensic Psychiatry and the Older Adult
  • Dr Deepak Tokas - Care of Older Adults on a Secure Ward 
  • Inspector Laura Burns - Negotiating with Persons in Crisis 

Please email: scotland@rcpsych.ac.uk if you would like a copy of any of the following presentations:

  • Dame Denise Coia - Caring for doctors caring for patients
  • Professor Clare Gerada - The Practitioners Health Programme
  • Ms Lorraine Close - Caring for Self as Clinicians; Power, Resilience and the Organisation
  • Dr Simon Edgar - Finding Joy in Work
  • Professor Daniel Smith & Dr Nagore Penades - Prescribing for bipolar disorder in Scotland: national linkage study
  • Ms Rose Fitzpatrick - Scotland's National Suicide Prevention Action Plan: Making Every Life Matter

 

Please email: scotland@rcpsych.ac.uk if you would like a copy of any of the following presentations:

  • Dame Denise Coia - Delivering parity of esteem for children and young people's mental health in Scotland
  • Dr Donald Lyons - Do NHS Boards need psychiatrists?
  • Mr Graham Morgan -  The writing of "START"- a memoir of life on a CTO, the power of love, the sea, the sky and forgiveness’ - No Presentation is available 

Please email: scotland@rcpsych.ac.uk if you would like a copy of any of the following presentations:

Prof Jon Stone and Dr Chris Bass: Working with uncertainty in the Doctor Patient relationship; A view from Neurology: Jon Stone and A view from Psychiatry: Chris Bass - No Presentation is available

Dr Robby Steel, Dr Michael Gotz and Dr Amanda Cotton: Panel: Regional Collaboration in Liaison Psychiatry: time for a new model? - No Presentation is available

Dr Siobhan MacHale: The Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist: Conductor or Soloist?

Dr Jane Morris: Working effectively with Physicians in cases of complex Eating Disorder

Please email: scotland@rcpsych.ac.uk if you would like a copy of any of the following presentations:

Dr Anna Fletcher - Cocaine, Psychopharmacology, Clinical Issues, Treatment for those on ORT

Dr Richard Stevenson  - Drug Related Presentations in A&E Glasgow

Dr Deborah Judge - Substance Misuse and Substance Misuse Services for Young People

Lisa Mellen - Current trends in Young People Misuse

Dr Douglas Small  - Cocaine; Cultural and Historical Aspects - Presentation not available

DC Kenny Foy - Cocaine/ Stimulants from a Police Perspective - Presentation not available

Dr Manik Kohli  - Chemsex, STIs and the role of stimulants and other drugs

                                                                                                

 

                                                 

Please email scotland@rcpsych.ac.uk if you would like a copy of any of the following presentations:

  • Prof John O'Brien - NICE guidelines on Dementia
  • Prof Alan Carson - Functional Cognitive Disorder
  • Dr Graham McKay and Dr Tom MacEwan - Young Onset Dementia (YOD)
  • Dr Ajay Macharouthu -  SIGN guidelines on Delirium
  • Dr Alasdair Lawrie - Dementia Research
  • Dr Vaishnavi Ramanujam - Elderly Mental Health in Developing countries - with special focus on India

Please email scotland@rcpsych.ac.uk if you would like a copy of any of the following presentations:

  • Dr John Crichton - Bournewood Revisited
  • Dr Jana DeVilliers - Intellectual Disability and Peer-on-Peer Harmful Sexual Behaviour Between Children and Adolescents
  • Dr Susie Gibbs & Dr Judith McKie - Development of Scottish LD CAMHS Services
  • Professor David Fitzpatrick - The Deciphering Developmental Disorders
  • Dr Jane DeVillers - Genetic Testing in Adult ID and the Potential Role of the College

Please email scotland@rcpsych.ac.uk if you would like a copy of any of the following presentations:

Thursday 19 September

  • Dr Helen Smith - Childhood Adversity & Adult Mental Health
  • Gerry McLaughlin - The Independent Care Review: Outcomes for looked after children
  • Prof Matt Smith - Poverty, Universal Basic Income and Mental Health
  • Dr Lucy Stirland - Passive smoking as a risk factor for dementia and cognitive impairement: systemic review
  • Dr Jennifer Bryden - Teaching Street-Children's Workers in Rwanda: Successes, Challenges and Further Needs
  • Dr Steven Voy - Evidence Based Psychological Treatments for Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID)
  • Dr Rosemary Gordon - Audit of Informed consent and documentation of medication changes in an inpatient psychiatric unit
  • Dr Jennifer Wyllie - Audit into Documentation in Low Dose Opoid Replacement Therapy (ORT)
  • Dr Louis Yssennagger - Audit of investigations completed prior to attendance at Memory Clinic in Perthshire
  • Dr Fiona Duncan - Working with Interpreters (A survey and audit of practice amongst Scottish Psychiatrists

Friday 20 September

  • David Parker - Gender Identity Services in Scotland
  • Dr Sarah Kennedy - The role of the psychiatrist in Gender Dysphoria
  • Dr Gordon Wilkinson - Just a phase? - Gender dysphoria in young people
  • Dr Rikki Moug - The Improbability of Me
  • Dr John Russell - Psychiatry Curricula Review Project - implications and opportunities
  • Dr Kate Lovett - Future of Psychiatric Training

Please email scotland@rcpsych.ac.uk if you would like a copy of the following presentations:

  • Professor Michael Barnes - The clinical use of cannabis derived products
  • Dr Anna Fryer - Cannabis Derived products helpful or harmful? The recommendations from the RCPsych Group on Medicinal Cannabis
  • Dr John Mitchell - President's lecture: Realistic Psychiatry
  • Dr Derek Tracy - Novel Psychoactive Substances - what you need to know
  • Dr Richard Stevenson - Novel psychoactive substances

If the presentation you are looking for has not been included below, please email the Royal College of Psychiatrists office for further information at scotland@rcpsych.ac.uk.

If the presentation you are looking for has not been included below, please email the Royal College of Psychiatrists office for further information at scotland@rcpsych.ac.uk.

Introduction to Psychedelics - Jake Hawthorn, Specialty Doctor in Addictions, Harm Reduction Unit, NHS Lothian

MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy for Alcohol Use Disorder - Ben Sessa, Consultant Psychiatrist in Addictions and Child & Adolescent; Psychedelic Therapist and researcher, Bristol/Imperial University; CMO at Awakn Life Sciences

Research Evidence, Mechanisms & Education for Psychedelic-Assisted Addiction Treatments - James Hawkins, Medical Psychotherapist at Good Medicine, Edinburgh and the Psychedelic Healthcare Professionals Network.

Rapid Access to (alcohol) Detoxification: Acute hospital Referrals (RADAR) - Chris Daly, Consultant Addictions Psychiatrist & Deputy Medical Director, Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

What to expect from the new UK Alcohol Guidelines - Julia Lewis, Consultant Addiction Psychiatrist, Visiting Professor, University of South Wales & Clinical Lead, Gwent Specialist Substance Misuse Service.

If the presentation you are looking for has not been included below, please contact us at scotland@rcpsych.ac.uk.

Music as Mirror in the care of elderly people with Dementia - Rachel Darnley Smith PhD, Freelance Music Therapist and Researcher, London

Living Grief - Prerna Ambardar, ST5, NHS Lanarkshire

Psychodynamics and Old Age Liaison Psychiatry - Dr Matthew Hagger, Consultant in Old Age Liaison Psychiatry, Royal Free Hospital, London

 

 

 

 

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