Mental Health in times of Covid 19 & Open Forum
With psychiatrists Prof S Bhugra & Dr D Gupta
Hosted by PHCA, The Primrose Hill Surgery and The Patient Participation Group
What has been the impact of the pandemic and lockdown on our mental health? This presentation is an opportunity for us to hear about the research findings to date, but also to share our own experience with Drs Bhugra and Gupta and each other. It will examine the following groups :
- Impact on general population
- Impact on people with psychiatric disorders
- Impact on Covid patients and those recovered
Register for this event below:
Prof Dinesh Bhugra CBE
Professor of Mental Health and Cultural Diversity
INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY
President, Royal College of Psychiatrists (2008-2011)
President, World Psychiatric Association (2014-2017)
President , British Medical Association (2018-2019)
Professor Emeritus of Mental Health and Cultural Diversity, Kings College London
He has authored/co-authored over 500 scientific papers, chapters , editorials and 40 books. Several of his books have won awards and gone into multiple editions. Three of his books have been translated into Mandarin and Japanese. His Oxford Textbook for Public Mental Health won Book of the Year award last year. In the same year Practical Cultural Psychiatry was highly recommended. His interests in medicine’s social contract, medical professionalism and future of psychiatric services have led to surveys and reports on burnout among medical students and doctors. His most recent edited volume is Oxford Textbook of Migrant Psychiatry published in February 2021.
He is the Editor of the International Journal of Social Psychiatry and International Review of Psychiatry
He is on the Board of Sane and Psychiatric Research Trust charities and chairs DocHealth charity which is jointly funded by the BMA and the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund. He is Deputy Chair and Non-Executive Director of Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. He has been awarded 17 named orations and 15 honorary degrees from Universities and organisations around the world.
Dr Susham Gupta, MBBS, MSc, FRCPsych is a Consultant Psychiatrist working in an Early Detection and Early Intervention for Psychosis Service (East London NHS Foundation Trust). He has interests in the field of psychosis, neuroscience, dementias, social psychiatry, mental health legislation and transcultural psychiatry. He has various publications in these fields.
Primrose Hill Patient Participation Group
Primrose Hill PPG provides a bridge between the Surgery and Patients to help improve the patient experience and to educate, inform and help patients take responsibility for their own health. To join or for more information email:
patientgroup.phs@nhs.net
Or, use the Patient Participation Group’s sign up page on the practice website: