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Professor Louis Appleby CBE, National Director for Mental Health

Louis Appleby is National Director for Mental Health in England and Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Manchester.

He has played a central role in plans to reform mental health services as part of the Government’s NHS Plan, bringing in a range of new services including home treatment, early intervention and assertive outreach teams, and mental health legislation.

He has led numerous initiatives including to reduce suicides and improve the physical environment of mental health wards and smoke-free wards.

Since 1996 Professor Appleby has been Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Manchester and since 1991 a consultant psychiatrist in Manchester. Professor Appleby’s current priorities are psychological therapies, stigma, race equality, suicide prevention, public mental health, inequalities and dementia.

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