On opening the RCPsych website the above appeared. I can only speak personally but I have concerns about the award culture that has developed in psychiatry – and indeed in medicine generally. My fear is that such a culture may encourage deference to a professional body before patients. It also may discourage speaking up by professionals and in this way a particular narrative may be more easily sustained.
The previous CEO of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Vanessa Cameron, said in December 2016 that British Psychiatry now has a “puritanical” relationship with the pharmaceutical industry.
The two psychiatrists that feature on the current front page of the Royal College of Psychiatrists website are:
