Welcome to the personal
website of
Suman
Fernando
psychiatrist, academic and writer
I was a consultant psychiatrist in the British National Health Service for over twenty years until the mid-1990s (took early retirement). Since then, I have been an academic, a lecturer, a writer and an advisor on mental health practice and service provision. I was a member of the Mental Health Act Commission - a government inspectorate with some teeth at the time - until 1995, chairing its National Standing Committee on Race and Culture. I am involved in voluntary organisations (NGOs) providing mental health services in UK for people from minority ethnic & 'racialised' groups such as asylum seekers in the UK and also an NGO in Sri Lanka. Here is a list of my appointments (click to see).
I am now mainly a writer and lecturer (click here for publications). I have been involved in capacity building work in Sri Lanka (click here for more..) and in researching issues around mental health provision in Middle- & Low-income countries - click here for a paper written in 2005 and here for another (2009)
Most recent presentation Leicester June 2016: CLICK for powerpoint
I welcome comment on materials (via 'contact us') but please do NOT contact me requesting clinical consulations or medico-legal reports as I do not undertake such work any more.
Note that Inquiry into 'Schizophrenia' (ISL) (CLICK) is being analysed - CLICK HERE to see Preliminary Findings
Master Classes in Mental Health-flyer
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CLICK HERE to see letter when the journal Nature declined to publish
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