Psychiatry

The Psychiatry staff presently consists of a full-time Staff-Grade Psychiatrist, a Consultant Paediatric Neuropsychiatrist and three Consultant Psychiatrists. This team is supported by a full psychiatric nursing team in the Richard Miller Unit and a Community Psychiatric Nurse.

Assessment Services
The team of psychiatrists and psychologists is involved in the assessment and management of behaviours within the assessment services for children and adults with epilepsy and a wide range of behaviour problems.

Epilepsy and Behaviour Unit
The Richard Miller Unit is a twelve bed registered independent hospital where the multi-disciplinary team manage and assess adults between 18-50 with the complex mix of epilepsy and behaviour problems. Treatment objectives are aimed at discovering if there is a relationship between seizures & behaviours and developing strategies to improve the management of both.

Learning Disability, Specialist College and Special School
Psychiatric support is also provided for adults with learning disabilities, students in the Specialist College and pupils in the Special School. Treatment regimens focus on the complex interactions between epilepsy, learning disability, behaviour and medication.