Derek Nicoll is Head of Crisis Services within the Psychological Medicine Management Team at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. The Trust provides the widest range of NHS mental health services in the UK as well as substance misuse services across London boroughs of Bromley, Bexley, Croydon, Greenwich, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark.
From the outset, our aim at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust was to provide genuine, real life experiences of our mental health services to staff from the Department of Health (DH). So far, we have had the pleasure …