MENTAL HEALTH FACILITIES


DAVID BRADLEY – CHIEF EXECUTIVE, SOUTH LONDON AND MAUDSLEY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST; EMILY SIMONOFF – DIRECTOR, KING’S MAUDSLEY PARTNERSHIP, UK


Centre designed with young people in mind


David Bradley, chief executive, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, and Professor Emily Simonoff, director of the King’s Maudsley Partnership and professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at King’s College London, discuss the progressive vision driving The Pears Maudsley Centre for Children and Young People in South London.


The Pears Maudsley Centre for Children and Young People in Denmark Hill, South London, is set to open in early 2024. It was founded on a vision: to bring everything we need to diagnose, treat, and understand the mental health challenges faced by children and young people under one roof, including inpatient and outpatient services, educational support, and clinical research facilities. Its aim is not only to improve delivery and outcomes for users of Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS), but to promote collaboration and knowledge-sharing between research and clinical staff. One in six children live with mental


health conditions, and half of the mental health disorders experienced by adults begin before the age of fifteen. Developing and delivering timely and effective interventions requires specialised knowledge, care, and facilities, and the King’s Maudsley Partnership (KMP) was formed to do just that. A unique collaboration between specialist clinicians from the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and leading academics at The Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College London and Maudsley Charity, the Partnership’s ultimate goal is to discover new ways of predicting, preventing, and treating disorders among children and young people, and to rapidly unlock their use in clinical practice. The Centre has been made


possible thanks to a funding partnership between South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, King’s College London, Maudsley Charity and a range of leading philanthropists including Pears


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Pears Maudsley Centre. David Bradley David joined South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust as chief


executive in July 2019. He has extensive NHS operational experience in mental health, acute and community services. David began his career in the NHS in 1980 and has over 20 years’ experience at board level across different NHS trusts in


London, Oxford and Surrey including nine years as a CEO. He is a board member of King’s Health Partners, a Trustee on Maudsley Charity (the largest mental health charity in the UK) and on the advisory board of Mindful Healthcare. David is a Partner Member (Mental Health) of the NHS South East London Integrated Care Board as well as Chair of the Cavendish Square Group, which provides a collective


voice for the providers of NHS mental health services in London, and for the broader mental health community including clinicians and patients.


Emily Simonoff


Emily is a professor of child and adolescent psychiatry in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at King’s College London, where her specific research interests included the study of autism and ADHD. She is also the


Director of the King’s Maudsley Partnership¸ a unique collaboration between South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust - the UK’s largest NHS


provider of specialist CAMHS services – and Europe’s leading child and adolescent mental health research team based at King’s College London.


IFHE DIGEST 2024


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