Mar
30
2011

PD Bodd goes to Buckinghamshire Complex Needs Service

Aylesbury isn’t known for much, but had a few minutes of fame in April 1964 when the great train robbers were tried at Aylesbury Crown Court. It was the largest value robbery ever in the UK, and was so because it was just after a bank holiday weekend in Scotland – meaning the second carriage [...]

Mar
28
2011

Bodd does BIGSPD

Every year for the last 11, a few dozen researchers, clinicians and various others have gathered for two or three days of serious talking (and some less serious talking too, as well as the other things people do at academic conferences). It was first held as a one day event, a brainchild of the most [...]

Mar
18
2011

National PD Programme – past, present and future

The Government’s National Personality Disorder Programme – past, present and future – is the subject of a plenary session at this year’s BIGSPD (British and Irish Group for the Study of Personality Disorder) on Friday March 25 at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. Speaking are Nick Benefield, Rex Haigh, Nick Joseph, Kath Lovell and Lisa Wilson. [...]

Mar
10
2011

Mandala Madness

Are you keeping up to date with the Clinical Review of the 11 PD Innovative Centres being undertaken by consultant psychiatrist Rex Haigh, and a number of colleagues? This week he was in Leeds and Nottingham. Follow the activity in March so far. Nottingham station always struck me as quite a gracious architectural statement of [...]

Jan
19
2011

Follow Bodd’s Blog to keep up to date on the clinical review of the Innovative Network

Consultant psychiatrist Rex Haigh, with a number of colleagues, has this week begun a clinical review of the 11 PD Innovative Centres (used to be called Pilots). Throughout his blog, for the next few weeks, he will be sharing his findings. The link to his blog has been posted on www.personalitydisorder.org.uk/blog He can also be [...]

Dec
20
2010

No room at the Inn? Ever thought of a Yurt?

The new community personality disorder project in Slough has no room at the Inn. Wexham Park Hospital is now so crowded, no new space can be found for the psychotherapy group in the new intensive treatment programme. But undeterred, the group has bought the largest Yurt on the market, which arrived from Granada, Spain in [...]

Nov
18
2009

PD pathways ‘tube map’

This Personality Disorder pathways “tube map” by Rex Haigh is designed to help you understand the different tiers of mental health services and the pathways through care for people with personality disorder.