A Working Party Report on behalf of the Executive Committee of the General Psychiatry Section of the Royal College of Psychiatrists

Since the early 1960s, it has been official policy to develop locally based alternatives to the mental hospital for the care of people suffering from persistent severe mental illness. This Working Party Report identifies the major shortcomings of the implementation of this policy for people with persistent mental illness and sets out a number of recommendations to redress these deficiencies.

Out of 361 candidates who sat the examination, 189 passed.

Talib Husain Al-Mumar Abbas; Madhushree Acharya Goswami; Bilal Ahmad; Farooq Ahmad; Andrew Aziz Al-Adwani; Shazad Amin; James Anderson; Henry Thomas Tertius Andrews; Duncan Anthony Peter Angus; James Kemp Appleford; Kevin George Appleton; Jennifer Dawn Ashmead; Kathryn Jane Auckland; Larry Nanjul Ayuba; Salih Khalafalla Babiker; Jeyabala Balakrishna; Karen Ballantine; Joan Mary Barber; James Stephen Barrett; Sadgun Narendra Bhandari; Asit Baran Biswas; Richard James Bowskill; Susan Jean Brown; Neena Elizabeth Buntwal.

President's Essay Prize

1991 Dr Stephen Stansfeld, University College, London.

The Royal College of Psychiatrists in association with the Royal College of General Practitioners and other relevant organisations launched the Defeat Depression campaign in January 1992. The objectives of the campaign are to reduce the stigma associated with depression, to assist general practitioners and other health care professionals in the recognition and treatment of depressive illness, and to increase public awareness of the extent and treatability of depression.