#RCPsychAwards
You can watch yesterday's #rcpsychAwards and find details of the winners across all of our awards categories, from psychiatrists of all grades and levels of training, to teams working throughout mental health care.
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November 6, 2026 at 1:32 PM
Congratulations to our Consultant Psychiatrist Dr Rahul Bhattacharya, named Psychiatric Educator of the Year at the @rcpsych.bsky.social Awards 2026, recognising his outstanding contribution to training psychiatrists locally, regionally and nationally. We’re very proud.

#RCPsychAwards
November 5, 2026 at 5:23 PM
Register NOW to watch tomorrow's #rcpsychAwards, kicking off tomorrow at 2:00PM

The awards mark the highest level of achievement in psychiatry, recognising teams and individuals for their extraordinary work in psychiatry and mental health.
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RCPsych Awards 2026
The RCPsysh Awards mark the highest level of achievements in psychiatry – watch the ceremony live online.
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November 4, 2026 at 2:00 PM
We're thrilled to be in attendance at the #RCPsychAwards where The NHS Primary Care Gambling Service is shortlisted for the 'Psychiatric Team of the Year: Working-Age Adults' award! 🏆
November 5, 2026 at 1:54 PM
Welcome to IMI's completely unofficial coverage of the #RCPsychAwards, which is a thing I've just decided I'm doing. Good luck to all our professional allies (and fellow patients) in the running!
November 5, 2026 at 2:04 PM
Well done Danielle Sands for winning Patient Contributor at the #RCPsychAwards. I wish this award had been further towards the climax though. Patients are moving closer to centre stage, but not quite.
November 5, 2026 at 2:24 PM
I missed the name of the doctor who won the first President's Medal, but she bravely talked about nearly ending her life due to postnatal depression. It's important to remember that being a psychiatrist and a patient aren't mutually exclusive. #RCPsychAwards
November 5, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Intellectual disability: patients and professionals both forever neglected (nothing new; see the Water Tower speech). Well done Haringey LD Partnership for winning the two-horse race. Repping their ends extensively, describing themselves as from the "best London borough". #RCPsychAwards
November 5, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Interesting how many people associated with South London and Maudsley Trust have won at the #RCPsychAwards, SLAM being the final body to oversee Cane Hill's last vestiges in the 00s. The hospital's role in South London becoming a centre of mental health teaching and research is underappreciated.
November 5, 2026 at 4:11 PM
Kashmiri Dr Ishaq Pala takes the international members' group award. Believe it or not, Cane Hill's ECT department was established by a Pakistani doctor; there's quite the history of contributors to British psychiatry hailing from the northwestern reaches of the Indian subcontinent. #RCPsychAwards
November 5, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Interesting to have a 'Sustainability/Green Care' award, given the extent to which climate anxiety and heat stress affect mental health and how green fingered activities can support treatment (very much seen at Cane Hill). Restormel of Cornwall, working in CAMHS, take this one. #RCPsychAwards
November 5, 2026 at 2:43 PM
We're incredibly proud to have won the Psychiatric Team of the Year: Working-Age Adults at the #RCPsychAwards! 🏆

Thank you very much to the college for the recognition of the hard work the whole PCGS team puts in to support our patients experiencing gambling harm
November 5, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Good luck to our Children's Eating Disorder Service, shortlisted for Psychiatric Team of the Year: Children and Adolescents at tonight's #RCPsychAwards 💙

The team goes above and beyond to support children and young people with complex eating disorders 🤞🏽

The Royal College of Psychiatrists
November 5, 2026 at 11:46 AM
Post toilet break, the #RCPsychAwards honour Dr Jed Boardman with a lifetime achievement award. One of the things he is credited with is campaigning to fair access to insurance for people with diagnosed mental health conditions, lack of which is underappreciated as a source of disadvantage.
November 5, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Dr Rahul Bhattacharya wins Psychiatric Educator of the Year. Cane Hill's longstanding position as a centre of nursing education and research into mental illness has always struck me through my research as part of what made it unique, so good to see education being honoured. #RCPsychAwards
November 5, 2026 at 2:52 PM
The unofficial IMI coverage of the #RCPsychAwards had to finish early because a friend from hospital needed me, but congratulations to all the winners, nominees, and just every wonderful soul in the mad, mad, mad world of mental health whether they've ever won an award or not. ❤️
November 5, 2026 at 6:07 PM
"We know there are lots of people who don't support psychiatry who work in mental healthcare," remarks Dr Lade Smith (you can say that again) as she awards a Medal to Rebecca Gray, whose career in care work centred on promoting collaboration between psychs and other clinicians. #RCPsychAwards
November 5, 2026 at 3:18 PM
Psychiatric Communicator: now there's a big one; if there's any field that needs to communicate the good it does it's mental health. Dr Raja Natarajan takes this one, with a remarkably sombre and spiritual speech about the importance of speaking the right way to those in pain. #RCPsychAwards
November 5, 2026 at 2:48 PM
There is an I in Psychiatric Team, and Devon Partnership NHS Trust take this gong for their their work "without additional funds" to bring outrageous CAMHS waiting lists down. They've done damn well amid the hellscape of lack of funding and provision that defines UK mental healthcare. #RCPsychAwards
November 5, 2026 at 2:33 PM
South London and Maudsley Trust get honoured for their work in end of life care. Strong patient-professional alliance on show, and bang on acceptance speech about the importance of keeping up support after the death of a caree instead of telling carers they're not carers any more. #RCPsychAwards
November 5, 2026 at 2:27 PM
Is there a team that has shown sustainability within psychiatry and #mentalhealth care? Their work over the past year could qualify them for the #rcpsychawards.

Nominations close TOMORROW at 5PM!
Find a list of ALL categories, rules of entry, and past winner here⬇️
www.rcpsych.ac.uk/about-us/rcp...
May 28, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Is there a Carer Contributor that has shown exemplary work, who deserves recognition? Their work over the past year could qualify them for the #rcpsychawards.

Nominations close TOMORROW at 5PM!

Find a list of ALL categories, rules of entry, and past winner here⬇️
www.rcpsych.ac.uk/about-us/rcp...
May 28, 2026 at 11:30 AM
Nominations for the #rcpsychawards close THIS FRIDAY at 5PM!

Nominate any qualifying TEAMS and INDIVIDUALS in psychiatry and #mentalhealth care for their work over the past year.

Find a list of categories, rules of entry, and past winner here⬇️
www.rcpsych.ac.uk/about-us/rcp...
May 24, 2026 at 11:01 AM
Nominations for the #rcpsychawards close in 10 DAYS!

These awards recognise teams and individuals in psychiatry and #mentalhealth care for their work over the past year.

For a list of categories, rules of entry, past winner and more ⬇️
www.rcpsych.ac.uk/about-us/rcp...
May 19, 2026 at 8:02 AM
The #rcpsychawards mark the highest level of achievement in psychiatry, recognising individual across all grades of psychiatry as well as the work being done by teams in #mentalhealth care. 

Nominations close Friday 29 May. For more ⬇️
www.rcpsych.ac.uk/about-us/rcp...
May 16, 2026 at 10:00 AM