Louis Appleby

Louis Appleby CBE is a British Professor of Psychiatry who leads the National Suicide Prevention Strategy for England and directs the National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness. He runs the Centre for Mental Health and Safety at the University of Manchester.[1][2]

Appleby was the government's first National Director for Mental Health ('mental health tsar') from 2000 to 2010, then the first National Clinical Director for Health and Criminal Justice from 2010 until 2014.[3] He was also involved in the development of Improving Access to Psychological Therapies.[4]

Activist Pete Shaughnessy and others in the mental health user/survivor movement reportedly found Appleby, in his role as mental health tsar, 'elusive'.[5]

Appleby studied medicine at Edinburgh and trained in psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry in London. He also trained in hospital medicine.[1]

He is a non-executive director of the Care Quality Commission.[6]

In February 2015 Appleby controversially announced on Twitter that he had pulled out of giving a presentation to the Ministry of Justice after being told not to mention falling staff numbers when discussing the rising suicide rate in prisons; he was supported by then shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan.[7]

In December 2015 Appleby was appointed by the General Medical Council to improve how it deals with doctors who are vulnerable or at risk when investigated for fitness to practice medicine; in April 2016 he reported that the number of investigations by the GMC should be reduced in favour of local resolution and that investigations should be 'paused' if the root cause is a health problem requiring treatment.[8][9]

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References

  1. 1 2 Institute of Brain, Behaviour and Mental Health: Our staff University of Manchester. Retrieved 24 July 2016
  2. ↑ Centre for Mental Health and Safety University of Manchester. Retrieved 26 July 2016
  3. ↑ First 'Health and Criminal Justice Tsar' announced Manchester University, 23 Mar 2010]
  4. ↑ Richard Layard on happiness, CBT and Christianity April 19, 2013. Interview by Jules Evans, Centre for the History of the Emotions at Queen Mary, University of London
  5. ↑ Believing in Bedlam. Memories of Pete Shaugnessy by friends and colleagues Asylum magazine
  6. ↑ Professor Louis Appleby CBE Care Quality Commission. Retrieved 24 July 2016
  7. ↑ Government's suicide expert withdraws from speech over censorship row The Independent, Adam Lusher, 23 February 2015
  8. ↑ GMC appoints former mental health tsar to improve its support for vulnerable doctors GMC, 03 Dec 2015
  9. ↑ GMC to reduce fitness to practise investigations to protect doctors GP Online, David Millett on the 7 April 2016
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