Training

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Hugh trained in medicine at the University of Oxford and Middlesex Hospital Medical School, London. After house jobs he spent a year carrying out research into the neurochemical systems of the brain at Karolinska Institute, Sweden.

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He returned to Oxford for professional training in psychiatry, specialising in old age psychiatry. He was awarded a Wellcome Training Fellowship, spending three years researching brain chemistry at Johns Hopkins University, Karolinska Institute and Oxford, receiving the research degree of DM from Oxford.

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He was appointed a consultant in old age psychiatry in 1995 in Oxfordshire, and remains an NHS consultant in Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust. He is approved under section 12(2) of the Mental Health Act, an approved Clinician under section 145 of the Mental Health Act, and approved as an assessor for Deprivation of Liberty authorizations under the Mental Capacity Act. He has held a number of roles at the Royal College of Psychiatrists including being a Trustee, a member of Council, and the Chair of the SE Division of the Royal College. He is currently the mental capacity adviser to the Faculty of Old Age. 

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Hugh enjoys keeping up to date through CPD and annual appraisal, and completed an LLM (with Distinction) in Legal Aspects of Medical Practice at Cardiff University in 2012. He holds the Cardiff University Law School–Bond Solon Expert Witness Certificate in civil and criminal procedure and is a member of The Academy of Experts.