Derek Tracy
London
Chief Medical Officer @MaudsleyNHS. Adjunct Professor @KingsIoPPN & Hon Prof @BrunelUni Med School. Editorial Board @TheBJPsych
Articles by Derek Tracy
Integrated care in practice: lessons from three tiers of healthcare provider and commissioner staff in two London Integrated Care Systems
There is a widespread international move to more integrated health- and social care systems. The drivers for this are unambiguous.Reference Tracy, Holloway, Hanson, James, Strathdee and Holmes1 Populations are ageing and becoming more clinically complex, and siloed specialist service provision is often poorly structured to meet this multimorbidity.
“It would be easier if they had a broken leg”: tackling stigma in occupational mental health care
Mental disorders are a major and increasing public health concern (Global Burden of Disease, 2022) and the main reason of sickness absence and work disability pension in most high-income countries (Blomgren and Perhoniemi, 2022). Management should include a holistic evidence-based approach, which incorporates a range of quality-of-life goals, including returning to work via stigma-free facilitatory contact between employee and employer (Eder et al, 2023).
Academic psychiatry is everyone's business
Academic psychiatry is everyone's business Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 October 2024 Hugo D. Critchley [Opens in a new window] , Derek K. Tracy [Opens in a new window] , Gin S. Malhi [Opens in a new window] , Laith Alexander [Opens in a new window] , David S. Baldwin [Opens in a new window] , Jonathan Cavanagh [Opens in a new window] , Samuel R.
Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller communities: mental health services need to do better « Psychology & Psychiatry# « Cambridge Core Blog Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller communities: mental health services need to do better
Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller communities: mental health services need to do better The RCPsych Article of the Month for September is ‘Gypsy, Roma and Traveller populations and mental health in the UK: a need for real working together and co-production of services‘, written by authors Derek Tracy, Amy Ward and Radha Kothari. The paper is published in BJPsych International.
Mental health at work: societal, economic and health imperatives align; it's time to act
Concern about the health of our working population has never been greater.
Parents’ depression can be linked to children’s emotional difficulties
Having a baby is a hugely significant event for parents. It is natural to experience a range of emotions during pregnancy and after, with greater risk of developing a mental health problem during this stage (MIND, 2020). Postnatal depression is more than feeling unhappy or the ‘baby blues’ that are very common but usually short-lived.
Evolutionary Psychiatry
‘This is a fascinating read on a topic that, although has relevance, is not well known or understood in the mental health world. The book is stimulating, authoritative, and entertaining in tone and has the ability to motivate debate and provide some answers to issues we all struggle with.
BJPsych Precision Medicine and Personalised Healthcare in Psychiatry Issue
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Public Mental Health
This is an overview of epidemiology relevant to mental health problems in old age. We start by reviewing some basic terminology: the definitions of prevalence and incidence; the difference between descriptive and analytical epidemiology; the differences between study designs, including cross-sectional, case–control and cohort studies.
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