Kurt Schapira MD FRCP FRCPsych DPM

James Patrick Watson MD, FRCP, FRCPsych

James (Jim) Watson, who died after a stroke on 3 August 2016 aged 80, was among a small band of British psychiatrists who trained in the 1960s and 70s to take psychiatry out of the asylums and establish robust services in general hospital and community settings. They were also responsible for developing a wide range of specialist mental health services. Jim was deeply committed to improving the...

Dr Henry Rollin MD, FRCPsych, FRCPsych (Hon), FRCP

Henry Rollin, who died recently at the age of 102, was a medical polymath from a vanished age when psychiatrists had the time and opportunity to develop their skills by way of a wider variety of experience than is possible today. From 1948 until 1975, he was the Deputy Superintendent of Horton Hospital, Epsom, one of the largest mental hospitals in the country. Although he had himself been invo...

Paul Haydon Rogers FRCP FRCPsych

Dr Tim Betts, MB, ChB, DPM, FRCPsych

It was with sorrow that Epilepsy Action learned of the recent death of Dr Tim Betts. Our thoughts and condolences are with his family at this sad time. Dr Betts was a former consultant neuropsychiatrist specialising in epilepsy at the Queen Elizabeth II Hospital in Birmingham. He was also a clinical reader in psychiatry at the University of Birmingham. He led the Birmingham neuropsychiatry serv...

Dr John Hurst MB, DPM, FRCPsych

Dr John Hurst’s approach to the treatment of people with intellectual disabilities was ahead of its time. In the early 1970s, John, who has died aged 79, developed the pre-discharge unit at South Ockenden Hospital, Essex, as a therapeutic community, as well as a number of community group homes. He also introduced one of the earliest community nursing services in intellectual disability there be...