Jed Boardman, PhD FRCPsych

Ian Reid MB, ChB, PhD, FRCPsych

further useful guidance on advanced care planning. While we agree that there is much to be done from the 2009 Royal College of Physicians report, we have chosen to address the aspects of Mrs S’s end-of-life care. In particular, we have focused on the synergies between the psychiatric staff and the local hospice. On one particular point we stated that people can express their wishes about prefer...

Peer support in mental health care : is it good value for money ? Marija Trachtenberg , Michael Parsonage , Geoff Shepherd & Jed Boardman

2 Peer support workers-people with their own lived experience of mental illness-provide mutually supportive relationships in secondary mental health services. Increasing numbers are being employed, both in this country and elsewhere. But good quality evidence on the effectiveness of this form of service delivery is in short supply and even less is known about its cost-effectiveness. This paper ...

Bryan Lask, FRCPsych

Bryan Lask died aged 74 on 25 October 2015 after a long illness. He continued to work, teach, write and research until 6 months before his death. He was a pioneer child and adolescent psychiatrist with an international reputation for his work on eating disorders, especially those occurring in children and adolescents. After 12 years of investigating and treating the families and psychological s...

Dr Henry Rollin MD, FRCPsych, FRCPsych (Hon), FRCP

Henry Rollin, who died recently at the age of 102, was a medical polymath from a vanished age when psychiatrists had the time and opportunity to develop their skills by way of a wider variety of experience than is possible today. From 1948 until 1975, he was the Deputy Superintendent of Horton Hospital, Epsom, one of the largest mental hospitals in the country. Although he had himself been invo...

Paul Haydon Rogers FRCP FRCPsych