I joined Walsall Community Health Trust as a Locum Consultant Psychiatrist covering the Sector with high morbidity in the inner city part of the Trust characterised by the following features:
(a) Considerable proportion of patients on Supervised discharge
(b) A unit with the highest number of patient’s occupying acute
Psychiatric wards
(c) An area with highest number of patients having alcohol and drug
problems with consequently considerable medico-legal problems.
During this period I have been able to undertake the following clinical and professional commitments beside my professional development.
Regular ward rounds – average of 2 per week
Regular Out-patient Clinics – 2 per week
Multi-disciplinary Team meeting involving regular support and supervision of the community team and the medical staff in the unit.
Together with my staff we have reduced the out-patient list considerably and have achieved good patients’ services and satisfaction.
In view of the high medico-legal involvement of the patients in this sector I have been able to support the local Courts including the Crown Court in not less than twenty cases involving Court Reports, communication and attendance.