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20/01/2005
Prominent NI mental health expert to retire
One of Northern Ireland's most prominent mental health experts is to retire, it was confirmed today.
Roy McClelland, Emeritus Professor of Mental Health in the University's School of Medicine and consultant psychiatrist at Belfast City Hospital Trust, is a leading authority on the study of suicide on the island of Ireland. He will retire at the end of January.
He is chairman of the Northern Ireland Healing through Remembering project which seeks to identify options of remembering and truth recovery for people affected by the Troubles, and deputy chairman of the Northern Ireland Review of Mental Health and Learning Disability.
Professor McClelland is also chairman of the Royal College of Psychiatrist's Advisory Group on Confidentiality and co-ordinator of the European 5th Framework Project, which is developing confidentiality guidelines for healthcare practice in Europe.
He was recently awarded the Prize of Geneva, a prestigious international accolade for his work in protecting the rights of people with mental illness.
His guidelines examined how healthcare professionals should protect patients' confidentiality in the age of networked computers and databases.
(MB/SP)
Roy McClelland, Emeritus Professor of Mental Health in the University's School of Medicine and consultant psychiatrist at Belfast City Hospital Trust, is a leading authority on the study of suicide on the island of Ireland. He will retire at the end of January.
He is chairman of the Northern Ireland Healing through Remembering project which seeks to identify options of remembering and truth recovery for people affected by the Troubles, and deputy chairman of the Northern Ireland Review of Mental Health and Learning Disability.
Professor McClelland is also chairman of the Royal College of Psychiatrist's Advisory Group on Confidentiality and co-ordinator of the European 5th Framework Project, which is developing confidentiality guidelines for healthcare practice in Europe.
He was recently awarded the Prize of Geneva, a prestigious international accolade for his work in protecting the rights of people with mental illness.
His guidelines examined how healthcare professionals should protect patients' confidentiality in the age of networked computers and databases.
(MB/SP)
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