Dr Caroline Lindsey
Public: Camden
Elected November 2006. Term ends October 2009
Experience
- Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist and Systemic Family Psychotherapist and Trainer in the child and family department at the Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust until March 2005; now retired
- Trains and supervises child and adolescent psychiatrists
- Previously Chair of the child and family department
- Previously worked as Consultant to Camden Social Services; established the Fostering and Adoption Team in the Child and Family Department with social worker, Lorraine Tollemache
- Jointly edited a book in the Tavistock Karnac Series, entitled "Creating New Families - Therapeutic Approaches to Fostering, Adoption and Kinship Care".
- Developed a commissioned service for the orthodox Jewish community within the child and family department
- Previously Chair of the Faculty of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Royal College of Psychiatrists
- Previously chaired the External Working Group on Mental Health and Psychological well-being for the Children's National Service Framework (NSF) 2002 - 2004
- Invited by Professor Louis Appelby, the National Director for Mental Health Services at the Department of Health to review the progress of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) NSF implementation and to make further recommendations, which was published in November 2006
- Now works in a private and voluntary capacity
Qualifications
- 1967 Qualified MB, BS at the Royal Free Hospital Medical School
- 1987 Trained at the Maudsley Hospital and received the Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (FRCPsych)
