Capacity assessment – assessing an individual’s ability to register and retain information as part of a decision-making process. It is essential where litigation, welfare or financial decision-making is required.
Fitness to plead – assessing individual’s ability to partake in court proceedings
Services
Our Psychiatric Services
Our expertise include a wide range of psychiatric conditions, including the following:
Personal Injury matters
Clinical Negligence matters
Employment matters
Fitness to Plead
Capacity assessments
Anxiety disorders
Psychosis
PTSD and trauma assessments
Old Age Psychiatry and Psychiatry of Learning Disability
Chronic pain
Somatoform conditions
Addiction conditions
Eating disorders
Assessing the psychiatric impact arising from personal injury and clinical care and treatment felt to be below expected standard.
Employment matters – Providing an opinion on the psychiatric impact related to employment matters – including work-related stress.
Somatoform disorders – anxiety conditions presenting with physical symptoms
Anxiety conditions – including generalised anxiety disorder, panic disorder, phobias
PTSD & Trauma conditions – assessing the psychiatric impact of those exposed to extremely threatening or horrific event or events.
Including schizophrenia, delusional disorders, psychosis
Including dependency disorders, substance misuse and withdrawal.
Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa
Psychiatric impact related to impact of chronic disorders, including pain and chronic fatigue.
Specialism in those older than 65, including dementias, mood, anxiety and psychosis.
Expertise in those with learning disabilities as well as neurodevelopment conditions (including autistic spectrum disorder and ADHD)