Former consultant psychiatrist North Staffordshire (b London
1920; q London 1943; DPM; FRCPsych), died after a long respiratory
illness on 25 August 2001.
He worked at Shenley Hospital in Hertfordshire and then at St Thomas's Hospital, where he achieved notoriety for driving his Austin Seven along the main hospital corridor. Appointed consultant psychiatrist, North Staffordshire, in 1955, he converted what had been a collection of poor law lunacy wards into a modern psychiatric unit. Consultants in other specialties increasingly sought his opinion and he was an early practitioner of what has become known as liaison psychiatry. He was a medical member of the Lord Chancellor's Mental Health Review Tribunal. He leaves a wife, Rosalind; three children; and six grandchildren.
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