South London and South East Hub

Address

South London and South East Hub
Mental Health Research Network
Institute of Psychiatry, PO39
King's College London
16 De Crespigny Park
London SE5 8AF

Telephone

020 7848 5015

Email

slsehub@kcl.ac.uk

South London and South East Hub works with mental health professionals based at the following NHS trusts

Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Population covered by the hub

6.5 million

We currently work with researchers based at

King’s College London (Institute of Psychiatry)

Hub lead

Professor Tom Craig, professor of community and social psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London and consultant psychiatrist, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.

His research has included studies of mental illness in homeless young people and other disadvantaged people in inner cities, and more recently he has evaluated the success of early intervention services for people with first episode psychosis. Professor Craig's clinical activities focus on developing innovative community‐based psychiatric services to supplement and enhance hospital care.

Hub deputy lead

Dr Niruj Agrawal, consultant neuropsychiatrist based at Atkinson Morley Regional Neurosciences Centre, St George’s Hospital London employed by South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust. He is also a Honorary Senior Lecturer at St George’s University of London.

He provides a tertiary neuropsychiatry service to the population South West London and Surrey and the Wolfson Neurorehabilitation Centre, Wimbledon. He has particular interest in the neuropsychiatric consequences of traumatic brain injuries; cognitive disorders and neuropsychiatric disorders associated with neurological illnesses.

He is Vice Chair of the neuropsychiatry section of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. He is Director of R&D at the South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust. He is a member of the Examinations Committee of the Royal College of Psychiatrists involved in setting and monitoring of theory and clinical postgraduate exams in Psychiatry in the UK. His research interests include depression in neurological disorders, neuropsychiatric conditions in neurological settings and neuropsychiatric service provision.

Primary care lead

Dr Henk Parmentier is a GP with a special interest in mental health.

He has been active in primary care research groups within London, and was a lead GP with the former STaRNet (South London Primary Care Research Network), facilitating and conducting primary care research. He is the UK representative and treasurer of the WONCA (World Organisation of National Colleges, Academies and Academic Associations of General Practitioners/Family Physicians) Working Party on Mental Health, and a co‐editor of the Mental Health in Family Medicine Journal. He is a visiting research fellow at the Section of Primary Care Mental Health in the Department of Health Service and Population Research at the Institute of Psychiatry. He is a member of the executive committee of PRIMHE (Primary Care Mental Health and Education), a charity that helps primary care professionals and staff to achieve and deliver best standards of mental health care. Henk has been the South London and South East Hub’s primary care lead since 2005.

Social care lead

Dr Nick Hervey, head of social care, Southwark Integrated Adult Mental Health Service, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM).

Nick is a social worker by professional background. His is a joint appointment between the London Borough of Southwark and SLaM and he leads on developing services for people with mental health problems and their family members, on equalities, adult protection, mental health promotion, volunteering and the implementation of the Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act. He previously worked in services for people with eating disorders.

He previously worked for some years within the eating disorders service, and has also had a great deal of involvement with the development of forensic services. Nick has a special interest in the history of psychiatry, having completed a PhD on the History of the Nineteenth Century Lunacy Commissioners, and chairs the Trustees of the Maudsley and Bethlem Museum and Archives. He is co‐author of Masters of Bedlam and has authored a number of articles on the history of psychiatry.

Pharmacy lead

position vacant

South London and South East Hub employs teams of clinical studies officers based at

Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
King’s College London (Institute of Psychiatry)
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Executive Committee

Professor Tom Craig, hub lead
Dr Nick Hervey, hub social care lead
Elizabeth Hutt, hub manager
Sheri Oduola, assistant hub manager
Dr Henk Parmentier, hub primary care lead

Management Committee

Professor Tom Craig, hub lead
Niruj Agrawal, Hub deputy lead
Elaine Alves, Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Research and Development
Gill Dale, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, Research and Development
Anthony Davis, Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, Research and Development
Enitan Eboda, South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust, Research and Development
Mark Hayward, Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Research & Development
Dr Nick Hervey, hub social care lead
Elizabeth Hutt, hub manager
Rhoda Iranloye, Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, Research and Development
Jennifer Liebscher, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, Research and Development
Sheri Oduola, assistant hub manager
Dorrie Mystris, Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Research and Development
Dr Henk Parmentier, hub primary care lead
Patricia Ronan, Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust, Research and Development
Tanya Telling, Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Research and Development

South London and South East Hub works with the following organisations

London (South) Comprehensive Local Research Network (CLRN)
Kent and Medway Comprehensive Clinical Research Network (CLRN)
Surrey and Sussex Comprehensive Clinical Research Network (CLRN)
Primary Care Research Network South East (CLRN)
Research Advisors by Experience (RABE)

page last updated 28 November 2011