Dr Daniel Maughan is a consultant psychiatrist working for the Early Intervention Service at Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust. He is also the Associate Registrar for Sustainability at the Royal College of Psychiatrists, where he heads up a programme of work looking to improve the sustainability of mental health services. He has published widely on the impacts of climate change on mental health, as well as how to best estimate the carbon footprint of health care.
I am the RCPsych Associate Registrar for Sustainability. Most of you will scratch your heads thinking, ‘What on earth does one of them do?’ The answer to this question can be as long as you like but, in its shortest form, is: I try to reduce the environmental impacts of mental health care.
What a bizarre thing to do, I hear you say. Why not get an estates person who deals with electricity and gas supplies to do that?