Great to be presenting at the recent Medical Education Day in Nottingham. Insightful lecture from Prof Peter Bartlett with a warning about avoiding complacency when considering human rights.
Pavel Trancik came from the Czech Republic to give an update on the European Forensic Psychiatric Trainees’ (EFPT) Scheme and Natalya Kennedy spoke about inspirational work in Sierra Leone. We have experience of the EFPT with psychiatrists visiting from Paris and Brittany earlier this year, as well as others outside the scheme from Italy, Portugal and Spain.
Sorry to see Dr Neil Nixon moving on from the Director of Medical Education role.
Highlight of the panel session for me was a wide ranging discussion about human rights in forensic mental health care with international comparisons. There was both contrast and agreement between the academic legal view (Prof Bartlett) and the clinical view which I was representing. It is essential that clinicians remain engaged with wider discussions about human rights, nationally and internationally, as the landscape is changing and a new paradigm is emerging, beyond the ECHR and HRA.
