Derek Tracy
@derektracy.bsky.social
Chief Medical Officer of South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. Adjunct Professor at the IoPPN, & Honorary Prof at Brunel Med School. Editorial Board at the BJPsych. https://slam.nhs.uk/trust-board/?consultant=737
Our open-access paper on #LUCI, our new NLP that sits over our EPR allowing real-time whole population data extraction from single clincian to team to service. Enormous care & research potential: informatics.bmj.com/content/32/1/e… collaborators: @kingsioppn.bsky.social @maudsleycharity.bsky.social
October 1, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Our open-access paper on #LUCI, our new NLP that sits over our EPR allowing real-time whole population data extraction from single clincian to team to service. Enormous care & research potential: informatics.bmj.com/content/32/1/e… collaborators: @kingsioppn.bsky.social @maudsleycharity.bsky.social
My thoughts on the past quarter century and next 25 years for mental health services: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @kingsioppn.bsky.social
September 7, 2025 at 7:01 AM
My thoughts on the past quarter century and next 25 years for mental health services: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @kingsioppn.bsky.social
It's getting closer! Our Royal Society of Medicine conference on why evolution matters to psychiatrists, psychologists, and neuroscientists. Details: www.rsm.ac.uk/events/psych...
April 28, 2025 at 7:42 AM
It's getting closer! Our Royal Society of Medicine conference on why evolution matters to psychiatrists, psychologists, and neuroscientists. Details: www.rsm.ac.uk/events/psych...
Wonderful #SLAM consultant inpatient away-day. Thankful to have such thoughtful, patient-centred colleagues. Lots of ideas for change. Thanks to pharmacy, liaison, & community forensic leaders for joining, & our AMDs & QI team for planning. #GratefulCMO
April 2, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Wonderful #SLAM consultant inpatient away-day. Thankful to have such thoughtful, patient-centred colleagues. Lots of ideas for change. Thanks to pharmacy, liaison, & community forensic leaders for joining, & our AMDs & QI team for planning. #GratefulCMO
A visit to our Croydon North & Croydon South CMHTs at Jeanette Wallace House this morning, and how lovely to meet a team member I worked with as a higher trainee 20 (🙈) years ago.
March 17, 2025 at 1:52 PM
A visit to our Croydon North & Croydon South CMHTs at Jeanette Wallace House this morning, and how lovely to meet a team member I worked with as a higher trainee 20 (🙈) years ago.
Thank you to our Bethlem CAMHS inpatient teams for showing me around yesterday. Really helpful to hear from patients & staff on what's working well & where we need to improve. Inspiring seeing the co-located Ofsted outstanding Maudsley & Bethlem school.
March 8, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Thank you to our Bethlem CAMHS inpatient teams for showing me around yesterday. Really helpful to hear from patients & staff on what's working well & where we need to improve. Inspiring seeing the co-located Ofsted outstanding Maudsley & Bethlem school.
Always sunny in Lambeth... thank you to the patients & staff on our Lambeth Early Onset ward for showing me around, telling me what's going well, and where we need to do better. Compassion in our care emphasised by all.
March 5, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Always sunny in Lambeth... thank you to the patients & staff on our Lambeth Early Onset ward for showing me around, telling me what's going well, and where we need to do better. Compassion in our care emphasised by all.
A privilege to be at the RCPsych yesterday to celebrate the life & work of Dr Aggrey Burke, & hear from the outstanding three medical students awarded the inaugural Fellowship named after him. The first Black Consultant Psychiatrist in the UK, his legacy in deep & enduring.
March 1, 2025 at 9:50 AM
A privilege to be at the RCPsych yesterday to celebrate the life & work of Dr Aggrey Burke, & hear from the outstanding three medical students awarded the inaugural Fellowship named after him. The first Black Consultant Psychiatrist in the UK, his legacy in deep & enduring.
Thank you to Professor Emmanuel Peters & her PICuP team for showing me around this afternoon. The Psychological Interventions Clinic for outpatients with Psychosis has set an international standard for developing & delivering their evidence-based care models & training.
February 28, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Thank you to Professor Emmanuel Peters & her PICuP team for showing me around this afternoon. The Psychological Interventions Clinic for outpatients with Psychosis has set an international standard for developing & delivering their evidence-based care models & training.
Our chapter on inpatient treatment is now out in the new edition of the Oxford Textbook of Community Mental Health. Thanks to the chapters first author, & my old mentor Dr Frank Holloway for leading this throughout 🙏
academic.oup.com/book/59676
academic.oup.com/book/59676
February 27, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Our chapter on inpatient treatment is now out in the new edition of the Oxford Textbook of Community Mental Health. Thanks to the chapters first author, & my old mentor Dr Frank Holloway for leading this throughout 🙏
academic.oup.com/book/59676
academic.oup.com/book/59676
Thank you to our SLAM adult eating disorders' team for meeting & taking me through our care models. World leading research, one of the greatest concentrations of expertise in the world, but always person-centred in approach. Grateful to work with such wonderful clinicians.
February 20, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Thank you to our SLAM adult eating disorders' team for meeting & taking me through our care models. World leading research, one of the greatest concentrations of expertise in the world, but always person-centred in approach. Grateful to work with such wonderful clinicians.
A belated thanks to our Lambeth drug & alcohol team for showing me around on Friday. Supporting individuals with opioid, non-opioid & alcohol, & criminal/justice problems, the team will take walk-in self-referrals, & there's no waiting list. Do drop in if we can help.
February 17, 2025 at 8:37 AM
A belated thanks to our Lambeth drug & alcohol team for showing me around on Friday. Supporting individuals with opioid, non-opioid & alcohol, & criminal/justice problems, the team will take walk-in self-referrals, & there's no waiting list. Do drop in if we can help.
Best views from the SLAM liaison team base at St Thomas's Hospital. Thank you to our CAMHS, working age adults, older adults, & neuropsychiatry teams for showing me around, & to GSTT colleagues for discussing challenges from the acute perspective.
February 13, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Best views from the SLAM liaison team base at St Thomas's Hospital. Thank you to our CAMHS, working age adults, older adults, & neuropsychiatry teams for showing me around, & to GSTT colleagues for discussing challenges from the acute perspective.
Visited our #SLAM national Self-Harm Out-Patient Sevice (SHOPS) yesterday. A unique evidence-based model providing 2 years intensive longer-term psychotherapy for adults experiencing complex & enduring problems relating to self-harm or other forms of self-destructiveness.
February 11, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Visited our #SLAM national Self-Harm Out-Patient Sevice (SHOPS) yesterday. A unique evidence-based model providing 2 years intensive longer-term psychotherapy for adults experiencing complex & enduring problems relating to self-harm or other forms of self-destructiveness.
Really moved by a visit on Friday to our SLAM START team for individuals who are homeless. An incredibly passionate & dedicated team doing the right thing day in & out with some of the most vulnerable people. Thank you Dr Jenny Drife & team ❤️.
February 9, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Really moved by a visit on Friday to our SLAM START team for individuals who are homeless. An incredibly passionate & dedicated team doing the right thing day in & out with some of the most vulnerable people. Thank you Dr Jenny Drife & team ❤️.
Thank you & congrats to Rosa Parks Ward, Lambeth Hospital, South London & Maudsley, for the wonderful patient feedback you have received. Lovely to spend time with patients & staff at the hospital, also including Eden & Nelson wards.
February 6, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Thank you & congrats to Rosa Parks Ward, Lambeth Hospital, South London & Maudsley, for the wonderful patient feedback you have received. Lovely to spend time with patients & staff at the hospital, also including Eden & Nelson wards.
Thank you to Professor David Veale & Dr Blake Stobie for showing me around our
#SLAM Centre for Anxeity Disorders & Trauma. CADAT takes local & national referrals for a whole range of anxiety disorders, with a rich tradition in training & research with
@kingsioppn.bsky.social
#SLAM Centre for Anxeity Disorders & Trauma. CADAT takes local & national referrals for a whole range of anxiety disorders, with a rich tradition in training & research with
@kingsioppn.bsky.social
January 20, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Thank you to Professor David Veale & Dr Blake Stobie for showing me around our
#SLAM Centre for Anxeity Disorders & Trauma. CADAT takes local & national referrals for a whole range of anxiety disorders, with a rich tradition in training & research with
@kingsioppn.bsky.social
#SLAM Centre for Anxeity Disorders & Trauma. CADAT takes local & national referrals for a whole range of anxiety disorders, with a rich tradition in training & research with
@kingsioppn.bsky.social
Special visitor to #SLAM yesterday, with the Deputy CMO of West London, Dr @suhana.bsky.social talking on leadership at our resident doctors' Calman day. Suhana exemplifies the courage in leadership about which she spoke.
January 18, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Special visitor to #SLAM yesterday, with the Deputy CMO of West London, Dr @suhana.bsky.social talking on leadership at our resident doctors' Calman day. Suhana exemplifies the courage in leadership about which she spoke.
Really insightful visit yesterday to our #SLAM #HIV liaison service, CASCAID. Wonderful psychosocially orientated care across traditional service boundaries to those living with HIV, helping them navigate complex systems, educating professionals, & tackling stigma. Thank you for all you do 🙏
January 18, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Lovely to visit our SLAM CAMHS Kaleidoscope today. Great integrated joint working with our community paeds colleagues from Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Trust, & impressive 50% reduction in waiting times for ADHD assessments. Huge thank you from me to dedicated & kind staff for what you're doing 🙏
January 15, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Lovely to visit our SLAM CAMHS Kaleidoscope today. Great integrated joint working with our community paeds colleagues from Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Trust, & impressive 50% reduction in waiting times for ADHD assessments. Huge thank you from me to dedicated & kind staff for what you're doing 🙏
A privilege to be Santa today & visit patients & staff on our Maudsley & Lambeth hospital wards & HTT team, & liaison staff at King's. A real special gratitude to all those working tonight and tomorrow - #TeamNHS.
December 24, 2024 at 4:45 PM
A privilege to be Santa today & visit patients & staff on our Maudsley & Lambeth hospital wards & HTT team, & liaison staff at King's. A real special gratitude to all those working tonight and tomorrow - #TeamNHS.
Thank you to patients and staff of Gresham 1 & 2 wards, and our Croydon PICU & HTT teams, for your warm welcome today at the always incomparable Bethlem hospital.
December 12, 2024 at 2:38 PM
Thank you to patients and staff of Gresham 1 & 2 wards, and our Croydon PICU & HTT teams, for your warm welcome today at the always incomparable Bethlem hospital.
Wonderful opening of the @bethlemmuseum.bsky.social exhibition of Charlotte Johnson Wahl's artwork of her time as a patient in the Maudsley in the 70s. Runs till April.
December 9, 2024 at 8:28 PM
Wonderful opening of the @bethlemmuseum.bsky.social exhibition of Charlotte Johnson Wahl's artwork of her time as a patient in the Maudsley in the 70s. Runs till April.
Great to visit our SLAM liaison team at King's emergency department today. Lots of good collaboration to provide timely, effective & compassionate care to our shared patients.
December 5, 2024 at 6:14 PM
Great to visit our SLAM liaison team at King's emergency department today. Lots of good collaboration to provide timely, effective & compassionate care to our shared patients.
und ich kreise jahrtausendelang;
und ich weiß noch nicht: bin ich ein Falke, ein Sturm
oder ein großer Gesang
- Rilke
und ich weiß noch nicht: bin ich ein Falke, ein Sturm
oder ein großer Gesang
- Rilke
November 30, 2024 at 12:04 PM
und ich kreise jahrtausendelang;
und ich weiß noch nicht: bin ich ein Falke, ein Sturm
oder ein großer Gesang
- Rilke
und ich weiß noch nicht: bin ich ein Falke, ein Sturm
oder ein großer Gesang
- Rilke