London Division strategy plan 2025-2027

Welcome to the London Division strategy plan for 2025-2027

The London Division have produced their first three-year strategic plan for 2025-2027.  The Executive Committee have ensured our four overarching objectives are in line with the College objectives, but with a regional focus.  

Our four key objectives are:

Strategic Objective 1. Engagement and collaboration – internally and externally

  • To proactively engage with all members of the Division.
  • To proactively engage with specific groups of psychiatrists e.g. Resident Doctors (Higher and Core), SAS doctors, new consultants, retired and resting etc.
  • To enhance engagement within the Executive Committee and any associated College Officer roles.
  • To engage with external mental health stakeholders, including ICBs and other professions, to insure a more prominent role of the Division, and to widen the sphere of influence/policies.
Strategic Objective 2.  Support for psychiatrists

  • To support all psychiatrists throughout their training and tenure as psychiatrists to maintain and improve their wellbeing and thus improve retention.
  • To support overseas Psychiatrists/IMGs to enhance their move to the UK, giving them tools to promote ease of acclimatisation/acculturation, and oversee their training once in the UK.
  • To support members and colleagues at all levels in their individual leadership journey, to improve their potential and highlight opportunities. 
Strategic Objective 3. Workforce – including recruitment and retention

  • To support the strong and cohesive College Workforce Strategy to approach the long-term problem of recruitment and retention in the London region.
  • To influence mental health workforce policy agendas and hold stakeholders to account on delivery.
Strategic Objective 4.  Health Inequalities and the importance of addressing physical and mental health holistically

  • To identify the areas in mental health with the greatest health inequalities within our region and liaise with local key stakeholders regarding addressing these inequalities. 
  • To address workforce inequalities across the Division and seek to find solutions to the challenges that are being faced in relation to recruitment and retention (discussed in objective 3 above).
  • To address the importance of the association between poor physical and mental health and focus on a regional level to identify  key inequalities between  driving this association across the region and seek to influence and find solutions to support ICBs in commissioning/primary and secondary care in provision of the right approach to addressing these concerns and associated policies.

You can view our strategic plan documents, including progress on achieving our objectives, below.

London Division strategy documents 2025-2027

This document lists the  full strategic plan 2025-2027 for the London Division.

This document lists the summary strategic plan 2025-2027 (PDF) for the London Division.

This document lists the progress report on the strategic plan 2025-2027 for the London Division. This highlights if we have achieved or partially achieved a task within an objective.

Member contributions

The London Division Executive Committee welcome all feedback from its members.  If you have any comments, have something you would like the Committee to focus on, have any ideas on how we can achieve our objectives, or want to join the Committee to help us with this strategy, then please contact the Manager Karen Morgan.

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