Royal College of Psychiatrists

Faculty of Forensic Psychiatry

Annual Conference

Wednesday 28 February – Friday 2 March 2018

East Midlands Conference Centre, Nottingham

Final Conference Programme

WEDNESDAY 28 FEBRUARY

08:00-09:00 Registration, refreshments, and exhibition – Banqueting Suite, ground floor

Poster viewing – Atrium, ground floor

Room: Conference Theatre, ground floor

09:00-09:10 Introductory remarks and welcome

Professor Pamela Taylor, Faculty Chair

09:15 Plenary Session: Managing mental health across the Criminal Justice Pathway

Chair: Pamela Taylor

09:15-09:35 The interface between police and mental health services: national and

international perspectives

Alex Crisp

Police Officer, Cheshire police and WCMT fellow

09:35-09:55 Surviving prison: Interpreting behaviours in a prison context

Professor Nick Hardwick

Chair of the Parole Board for England and Wales and Royal Holloway University of

London

09:55-10:15 Personality disorder pathway in the CJS

Dr Colin Campbell

HMP Brixton, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

10:15-10:35 Evaluating the use of medication to manage problematic sexual arousal

Professor Belinda Winder, Professor in Forensic Psychology and Head of Sexual

Offences, Crime and Misconduct Research Unit, Nottingham Trent University

10:35- 10:55 Are prison mental health services fit for purpose?

Dr Steffan Davies

Northamptonshire NHS Foundation Trust

10:55- 11:15 Discussion

11:15-11:45 Refreshments and exhibition - Banqueting Suite, ground floor

 Poster viewing – Atrium, ground floor

Room: Conference Theatre, ground floor

11:45-12:45 Debate: This house believes that the future care of mentally disordered
offenders should be shifting towards the Criminal Justice System and away
from secure hospitals Chair: Tim McInerny
For: Professor Harry Kennedy, Dundrum Central Mental Hospital
Dr Ian Cumming, South London and Maudsley NHSFT
Against: Dr Reena Kapoor, Yale Medical School, USA
Professor Phil Fennell, Professor of Law in Cardiff Law School, Cardiff University
12:45-13:00 Discussion

13:00-13:55 Lunch and exhibition - Banqueting Suite, ground floor

Poster viewing – Atrium, ground floor

Room: Conference Theatre, ground floor

13:55-14:10 Address by the President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists:
Professor Wendy Burn
14:15-14:50 Keynote lecture:
All you need to know about Affective Disorders
Professor Allan Young
14:50-15:05 Discussion

15:05-15:30 Refreshments and exhibition - Banqueting Suite, ground floor

Poster viewing – Atrium, ground floor

Room: Conference Theatre, ground floor

Plenary Session: What is the future of forensic risk assessment?
Chair: Lade Smith
15:30-15:55 Success of forensic risk assessment to date
Dr Caroline Logan, University of Manchester
15:55-16:20 The ethics of risk assessment
Professor George Szmukler, Chair of the RCPsych Special Committee on Human Rights
and Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry and Society, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology &
Neuroscience, King’s College London
16:20-16:45 What can we learn from other industries?
Dr Melinda Lyons, Manchester University
16:45-17:10 Violence risk and response to treatment
Dr Alec Buchanan PhD MD FRCPsych
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine
17:10-17:25 Discussion
17:30-18:00 Faculty Report and Business Meeting

18:00-19:00 Drinks Reception – all welcome - Banqueting Suite, ground floor

 THURSDAY 1 MARCH

08:45-09:30 Registration, refreshments, and exhibition - Banqueting Suite, ground floor

Poster viewing – Atrium, ground floor

Room: Conference Theatre, ground floor

Plenary Session: Useful Clinical and Research Updates for Forensic Psychiatrists
Chair: Birgit Vollm

09:30-09:55 When victims speak for themselves - preliminary outcomes from the

evaluation of an inpatient victim awareness & restorative justice programme

Dr Gerard Drennan Ph.D., Lead Psychologist Forensic and Offender Health, South

London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, and Dr Joel Harvey, PhD., ClinPsyD,

Lecturer in Clinical Psychology, IoPPN, King's College London

09:55-10:20 Psychologically-informed approaches to managing self harming behaviour

Dr Jackie Craissati MBE, Consultant Psychologist and Director of Psychological

Approaches CIC

10:20-10:45 Why isn’t there a magic motivation wand….What is going on in the world of

drugs and alcohol relevant to the forensic psychiatrist

Dr Michael J Kelleher, Consultant Addictions Specialist and Clinical Lead for Lambeth

Addictions, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, Clinical Advisor Alcohol

Drugs and Tobacco Division Public Health England, Honorary senior lecturer

10:45-11:10 Update on assessment and management of dementia in our aging patient

populations

Dr Catherine Gordon, Consultant Old Age Psychiatrist, Nottingham

11:10-11:35 All you need to know about eating disorders

Professor Chris Fairburn, University of Oxford

11:35-12:00 Refreshments and exhibition - Banqueting Suite, ground floor

Poster viewing – Atrium, ground floor

Room: Conference Theatre, ground floor

Chair: Donald Grubin

12:00-12:50 Keynote lecture:

Children and Young People Online: Understanding Harm and Risk

Professor Julia Davidson, Co-Director Centre for Abuse and Trauma Studies, Middlesex

University London
12:50-13:00 Discussion
13:00-14:00 Lunch and exhibition - Banqueting Suite, ground floor
Poster viewing – Atrium, ground floor

14:00-15:30 Parallel Symposia and New Research

A choice of 7 sessions

1 Future Challenges for old age populations in prisons and secure units
Room: Dr Rachel Daly, Dr Faisal Mudathikundab and Renske Visser, Oxleas NHS Foundation
Conference Suite Trust, and Dr Seema Sukhwal, Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist, HMP Wormwood Scrubs
1, ground floor

2 A Case of Culture and Homicide - The Need for Cultural Formulations in

Room: Forensic Psychiatry
Conference Suite Dr Ali Ajaz, consultant forensic psychiatrist and senior clinical lecturer in psychiatry,
2, ground floor London, and Dr Eman Shweikh, consultant forensic psychiatrist, London

3 The Many Values of Meeting Physical Healthcare Needs

Room:
Dr Elizabeth Gethins, Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist and Dr Atif Mahmud Specialty
Conference Suite
Doctor, Alvaston ward, Cygnet Hospital Derby
3ab, ground floor

4 Sexual Boundaries in Clinical Practice

Dr Jonathan Hurlow, Lead Contributor to College Report CR205 Sexual Boundaries in
Room: Clinical Practice and Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist and Professional Practice and
Gallery Suite, Ethics Committee Member, Dr Mayura Deshpande, Consultant Forensic Adolescent
first floor Psychiatrist and Professional Practice and Ethics Committee Chair, Elaine Hoffman,
Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Personality Focused Recovery Services, Birmingham &
Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, and Dr Manjinder Padda, Specialty Doctor
in Forensic Psychiatry, Personality Focused Recovery Services, Birmingham & Solihull
Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

5 Wathwood Icebreaker: a patient created board game for use within secure
services
Room: Dr Joanne Parry, Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist, Wathwood Hospital, Nottinghamshire
Conference Suite Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Claire Harrison, Occupational Therapist, Wathwood
3c, ground floor Hospital, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, and Patient A *, Wathwood
Hospital, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

6 Graduate Patients: Who moves from the young people’s secure estate to adult
Room: services and why?
Conference Suite Dr Heidi Hales, consultant adolescent forensic psychiatrist, Wells Unit, WLMHT,
1, ground floor previously consultant in HMYOI Cookham Wood, and Professor Annie Bartlett, professor
of offender care at St Georges, University of London
7 New Research Presentations: Chair: Danny Sullivan

Room: A comparison between military veterans and offenders from the general

Conference population referred to Liaison and Diversion services: offending profile,

Theatre, welfare and mental health needs
ground floor Dr Roxy Short, Post Doctoral Researcher, Dept of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental
Science, King's College London
Homicidal bereavement: understanding stories from those bereaved through
murder or manslaughter
Dr Filipa Alves-Costa, Post Doctoral Researcher, Dept of Forensic and
Neurodevelopmental Science, King's College London
The Restrictiveness of Forensic Care: Exploring Patient Experience
Mr Jack Tomlin
Absolute and relative risks for suicidality, violence perpetration and
victimisation, and premature death in a cohort of young adults discharged
from inpatient psychiatric care
Florian Walter, MSc, Centre for Mental Health and Safety, University of Manchester
The personality disorder patient pathway: service user and clinical
perspectives
Jessica Raphael, Department of Psychology & Mental Health, University of Manchester,
Manchester, England
Factors associated with prison remittal from medium secure service: a
national prospective cohort study
Sarah Leonard, Centre for Mental Health and Safety, University of Manchester

15:30-16:00 Refreshments and exhibition - Banqueting Suite, ground floor

Poster viewing - Atrium, ground floor

16:00-17:30 Parallel Symposia

A choice of 7 sessions

1 Managing adult ADHD in prisons

Room: Dr Sandeep Mathews, Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist, Edenfield Centre and GMMH
Conference Suite NHS Trust Health and Justice Services, Dr Lucy Shaw ST4 Registrar in Forensic
4, ground floor Psychiatry HENW, and Dr Panchu Xavier, Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist, Ashworth
Hospital

2 Whole System Approach in Therapy

Room: Dr Anis Ahmed, Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist and originator of the idea
Conference Suite (TreaTainment), and Dr Vivek Furtado, Consultant Psychiatrist, University of Warwick
3c, ground floor
3 The United Kingdom’s counter-terrorism Prevent Strategy & ethical issues for
mental health services
Room: Hashi Mohamed, Barrister at N05 Chambers, William Baldet, Leicester PREVENT Co-
Conference ordinator, Dr Mayura Deshpande, Consultant Forensic Adolescent Psychiatrist &
Theatre, Professional Practice and Ethics Committee Chair
ground floor Chair: Dr Jonathan Hurlow, Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist and Professional Practice
and Ethics Committee Member

4 Extended suicide, mass shootings followed by suicide and possible similarities

Room: with aviation suicides such as German Wings
Conference Suite Dr Peter Haydn Smith
1, ground floor

5 Medical student essay prize presentations

Room: Fiona Kirkham and Sophia Harrop

Conference Suite
3ab, ground floor

6 Effects of homicide by forensic patients on mental health teams

Room: Dr Renarta Rowe
Gallery Suite,
first floor

7 People with learning disabilities who are detained in the criminal justice
system and other secure environments
Room: Dr Iain McKinnon, Consultant and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Forensic and
Conference Suite Neurodevelopmental Psychiatry, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust
2, ground floor and University of Newcastle, Alison Giraud-Saunders, Independent Consultant and
Researcher and Professor Annie Bartlett, Professor of Forensic Psychiatry, St George’s,
University of London, and Clinical Director, Health in Justice Programme, NHS England
Chair: Dr Andrew Forrester, Clinical Director, Offender Health Research Network,
University of Manchester

17:35-18:35 Optional Working Group Meeting:

 Adolescent Forensic Psychiatry Special Interest Group Meeting

Room: Conference Suite 1, ground floor

17:45-18:35 Fun Run – Meet at reception, Orchard Hotel

Join colleagues for a evening run across the landscaped gardens of the university

19:30 Conference Dinner

Senate Chamber, Trent Building, University of Nottingham
 FRIDAY 2 MARCH

08:30-09:00 Registration, refreshments and exhibition - Banqueting Suite, ground floor

Poster viewing - Atrium, ground floor

09:00-10:30 Parallel Masterclasses - A choice of 4 sessions

1 Peer support in forensic mental health services

Room: Paula Harriott, Lead on Prisoner Engagement, Prison Reform Trust
Conference
Suite 2,
ground floor

2 Masterclass in Forensic Psychotherapy

Room: “Everything you ever wanted to know about what goes wrong in forensic
Conference settings”: A survival guide to the inevitable and recurring organisational
Suite 1, dynamics of forensic settings
ground floor (In memory of Professor Gill McGauley)
Hosted by the Forensic Psychotherapy Special Interest Group
Dr Daniel Beales, Dr Lisa Gardiner, and Dr Andrew Williams
Chaired by Dr Brian Darnley

3 Mental Health Law: What does the future hold?

Room: Professor Phil Fennell, Professor of Law in Cardiff Law School, Cardiff University
Conference
Theatre
ground floor

4 Implementing a Trauma Informed Approach across the Women’s Prison

Room: Estate
Conference Dr Jude Kelman, Karen Lloyd and Vicky Robinson
Suite 3,
ground floor

10:30-11:00 Refreshments and exhibition - Banqueting Suite, ground floor

Poster viewing - Atrium, ground floor

11:00-12:30 Parallel Masterclasses - A choice of 4 sessions

1 Peer support in forensic mental health services

Room: Paula Harriott, Lead on Prisoner Engagement, Prison Reform Trust
Conference
Suite 2,
ground floor
2 Masterclass in Forensic Psychotherapy
Room: “Everything you ever wanted to know about what goes wrong in forensic
Conference settings”: A survival guide to the inevitable and recurring organisational
Suite 1, dynamics of forensic settings
ground floor (In memory of Gill McAuley)
Hosted by the Forensic Psychotherapy Special Interest Group
Dr Daniel Beales, Dr Lisa Gardiner, and Dr Andrew Williams
Chaired by Dr Brian Darnley

3 Mental Health Law: What does the future hold?

Room: Professor Phil Fennell, Professor of Law in Cardiff Law School, Cardiff University
Conference
Theatre
ground floor

4 Implementing a Trauma Informed Approach across the Women’s Prison

Room: Estate
Conference Dr Jude Kelman, Karen Lloyd and Vicky Robinson
Suite 3,
ground floor

12:30-13:30 Lunch and exhibition - Banqueting Suite, ground floor

Poster viewing - Atrium, ground floor

Room: Conference Theatre, ground floor

13:30 Role of psychiatrists in deportation and extradition cases
Chair: Dr Andrew Forrester, Clinical Director, Offender Health Research Network,
University of Manchester
13:30-14:00 The UK perspective on the ‘Migrant Crisis’ and the work of the RCPsych
Refugee and Asylum Worksing Group
Professor Cornelius Katona, Medical Director, Helen Bamber Foundation and Chair,
RCPsych working group on asylum seekers and refugees
14:00-14:30 Deportation: update and case study
Dr Piyal Sen, Elysium Healthcare, and Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental
Sciences, Kings College London
14:30-15:00 Extradition law and mental health – a bar to surrender?
Edward Grange, Extradition Lawyer, Partner, Corker Binning
15:00 Discussion

15:25-15:30 Closing Comments

Pamela Taylor, Faculty Chair

Refreshments available on departure - Banqueting Suite, ground floor