Larry Rifkin

Workstream 3: Supporting Advance Directives | Core member

Consultant psychiatrist Lambeth Home Treatment Team South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLAM) and visiting senior lecturer, KCL. Larry is a senior clinician in SLAM with expertise in affective disorder and crisis services. He will be clinical lead for the NHS implementation phase of workstream 3 as detailed in the letter from the medical director of SLAM. He will contribute widely across the research network.

Research

Advance directives reduce friction over involuntary treatment – Authors’ reply – Gergel, T. et al. (2021)
Reasons for endorsing or rejecting self-binding directives in bipolar disorder: a qualitative study of survey responses from UK service users – Gergel, T., Das, P. et al. (2021)
Advance Decision Making in Bipolar: A systematic review. Stephenson, L. A., Gergel, T., Gieselmann, A., Scholten, M., Ruck Keene, A., Rifkin, L., & Owen, G. (2020).
The PACT advance decision-making template: preparing for Mental Health Act reforms with co-production, focus groups and consultation. Stephenson, L. A.*, Gergel, T.*, Keene, A. R., Rifkin, L., & Owen, G. (2020).
‘Why have I not been told about this? a survey of experiences of and attitudes to advance decision-making amongst people with bipolar’. Hindley, G., Stephenson, L. A., Ruck Keene, A., Rifkin, L., Gergel, T. , & Owen, G (2019).
The future of Advance Decision Making in the Mental Health Act
Advance decision-making in mental health – Suggestions for legal reform in England and Wales

Larry Rifkin

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