CONSULTANT OLD AGE PSYCHIATRIST
Hugh is a consultant old age psychiatrist (or psychogeriatrician) at Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust and a member of the Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford. He also sits as a medical member of the Mental Health Tribunal (first tier). He is a memberof the The Academy of Experts, and a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
He has considerable experience in medico-legal matters as they affect older people. He writes over 100 reports each year for civil and criminal courts, and gives oral evidence in court about 10-15 times a year, as well as sitting on mental health tribunals about 40 days a year. He specialises in mental capacity.
Hugh regularly lectures and teaches students and health and legal professionals and has published over 50 papers and book chapters.
He specialises in old age psychiatry, seeing the full range of mental health problems in older people. This includes dementia (Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia), depression, bipolar affective disorder, schizophrenia, psychosis, anxiety disorders and post-traumatic stress disorder.