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Derek Tracy @derektracy.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Research Methods in Mental Health, our new book from @universitypress.cambridge.org & @rcpsych.bsky.social is out now: www.cambridge.org/core/books/r...

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Derek Tracy @derektracy.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

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

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Derek Tracy @derektracy.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

My thoughts on the past quarter century and next 25 years for mental health services: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @kingsioppn.bsky.social

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Derek Tracy @derektracy.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

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...

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Derek Tracy @derektracy.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

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

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Derek Tracy @derektracy.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

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.

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Derek Tracy @derektracy.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

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.

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Derek Tracy @derektracy.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

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.

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Derek Tracy @derektracy.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

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.

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Derek Tracy @derektracy.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

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.

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Derek Tracy @derektracy.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

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

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Derek Tracy @derektracy.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

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.

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Derek Tracy @derektracy.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

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.

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Derek Tracy @derektracy.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

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.

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Derek Tracy @derektracy.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

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.

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Derek Tracy @derektracy.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

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 ❤️.

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Derek Tracy @derektracy.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

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.

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Derek Tracy @derektracy.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

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

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Derek Tracy @derektracy.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

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.

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Derek Tracy @derektracy.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

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 🙏

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Derek Tracy @derektracy.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

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 🙏

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Derek Tracy @derektracy.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

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.

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Derek Tracy @derektracy.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

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.

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Derek Tracy @derektracy.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

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.

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Derek Tracy @derektracy.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

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.

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Derek Tracy @derektracy.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

und ich kreise jahrtausendelang; und ich weiß noch nicht: bin ich ein Falke, ein Sturm oder ein großer Gesang - Rilke

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Derek Tracy @derektracy.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Astonishing paper. Pushes the Last Universal Common Ancestor to 4.2 billion y.a.; already had an immune system; & was a heterophage, consuming other organisms. It might be the last common ancestor, but *still* wasn't the first life, & part of an ecosystem. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Derek Tracy @derektracy.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

It's not often a talk changes my perspectives & insights on a field, but Professor Nick Humphrey's talk today at the Royal College of Psychiatrists did that for me on sentience & its evolutionary emergence. Astounding, and brilliant.

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Derek Tracy @derektracy.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Our textbook 'A Clinician's Brief Guide to the Coroner's Court & Inquests' is out now from CUP/RCPsych. 20% off to College members: www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

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Derek Tracy @derektracy.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Delighted to share that I've just knocked 23 seconds off the world mile record. Anyone suggesting my Garmin satnav gets confused around the Canary Wharf skyscrapers will be immediately blocked. #WorldChampion #Easy

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