Dr Darryl John Joseph Britto

MBBS, MRCPsych, CHSM

Graduated in Medicine and Surgery (MBBS) with the Bal Chintoba Prize in Forensic Medicine from BJ Medical College, Pune, India, Dr Britto is a Qualified Medical Practitioner, registered with the General Medical Council (GMC), London. He is a Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, UK (MRCPsych, 1991). Accorded status of a Specialist in Psychiatry by the GMC, under the European Specialist Medical Qualifications Order, 1995. Approved by the Secretary of State UK under Section(12) of the Mental Health Act, 1983, in having special expertise and knowledge in the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders. Member of the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) and Member of EMDR Association UK & Ireland.

Present appointments: Consultant Psychiatrist in full-time private practice in Huddersfield and consultant psychiatrist for on-call cover and locum consultant-in-patient cover for Cygnet hospitals in West Yorkshire, Member of The Board of Trustees Forget Me Not Childrens Hospice, Chief Executive Officer: Britto Healthcare Limited.

Previous appointments: Consultant Psychiatrist Cygnet Hospital Bierley, West Yorkshire; Merseyside Constabulary Liverpool St. Luke's Hospital Huddersfield; South West Yorkshire Mental Health NHS Trust and Clinical Tutor appointed by the Royal College of Psychiatrists, London, for the Halifax Hospitals: Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer, Department of Psychiatry, University of Leeds, Undergraduate Examiner in Psychiatry for the Leeds University Medical School, Member of The Board of Trustees Anxiety UK.

Specialist areas of work

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Professional qualifications and memberships

Notable medico-legal instructions

• Expert for victims of the sinking of the Sun Vista Cruise ship off the Malaccan Strait in 1999.
• Expert for Claimants of Residential Institution Redress Board, Ireland
• Expert for victims of the Lindsey Oil Refinery explosion 2009, Grimsby, Humberside.
• Rabone and another -v- Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust - Supreme Court Judgement [2012] UKSC2 on Appeal from [2010] EWCA Civ 698. Article 2 of the Human Rights Act.
• Robinson -v- Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Supreme Court Judgement UKSC 2016/0082.

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Scientific Publications

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Clinical Research Experience

• A double blind parallel group study to compare the management of moderate and severe Chronic Obstructive Airways Disease with Salbutamol Rotacaps 2mg, 1mg and 400ucg each given 4 times daily (Conducted at the Marsden Hospital, Marsden Road, Burnley).
• Social support and development of Psychiatric disorder after childbirth, Research Collaborator guided by Prof. Brugha, University of Leicester (1989-1991).
• Mphil Thesis, Eating Disorders : University of Leicester (unpublished), Retrospective Casenote study of 500+ Eating Disorder patients referred to tertiary Specialist Eating Disorder Service - Academic Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Leicester.
• Research Collaborator and interviewer for The National Psychiatric Morbidity Surveys of Great Britain - Household Survey, Department of Health, London, UK (1991-1992).
• A 12810104 A phase IIIb, 12 week, Multicentre Double Blind, Double Dummy, Randomised Parallel Group Study comparing the effects of Ziprasidone (40-80 mg bd) -v- Olanzapine (5-20 mg od) on quality of life in the treatment of Schizophrenia and Schizo-affective Disorder.

Prizes/Awards/Distinctions

• Bal-Chintoba Prize: for standing First in Forensic Medicine, at the IInd MBBS Examination, University of Pune, India.
• Best outgoing student, athlete and debater/elocutionist - 1994. Kendriya Vidyalaya Air Force Station, Pune. India.
• Several prizes in debating, elocution, dramatics (effective public speaking and communication skills).
• Best Outgoing Student and Elocutionist of medical school.
• Adjudged 'Man of the year' 1980-81 in the Medical School. This award is given to a Medical Student of the University based on overall performance at studies, sports, leadership, organisational capabilities and creative ideas.
• Lawyer Monthly Expert Witness Awards 2019 - Psychiatry Of The Adult, Winner

Lectures and Teaching - affiliation to universities

• Speaker at International Webinar - Post COVID: From Blissful Ignorance to Phobic Endurance, Jyoti Nivas College Autonomous, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, 25 June 2020.
• Keynote Speaker International Seminar: St Francis De Sales College, University of Bangalore, India, January 2017 - Influence of Neo-Freudian Theories in 20th century Literature.
• Keynote speaker International Conference: Gibraltar Health Authority, Gibraltar. Developing a new vision for mental health services in Gibraltar. October 2006 - From Dawn to Dusk - Asyulms to Community Mental Health. Have we got it right? What is the future?
• Speaker at National Conference of Occupational Health Physicians, Cheshire, UK
• Lectures in Psychiatry, University of Bangalore, India.
• Post-Graduate Education Approved lectures (several) - Liaison Psychiatry, Trans-cultural psychiatry, Psychiatric Emergencies/Suicide/Deliberate self harm to Junior doctors in Psychiatric Training Schemes, Specialist Registrars at Post-Graduate Education Centres in District General Hospitals and other settings, Consultant colleagues and General Practitioners.
• Undergraduate and Post-Graduate Psychiatric Tutor in Psychiatry, Halifax, West Yorkshire - University of Leeds (1996-1999). Training of medical students and junior doctors in Psychiatry. Lectures to Post-Graduate Students in Clinical Pharmacy, University of Leeds. Several lectures to General Practitioners in the North of England on psychiatric topics, specially Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Depression and related topics.

Work experience

Consultant appointments - April 1995 to October 2019

• 1997 to 2019 - The BMI Huddersfield Hospital, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire
• Referrals from General Practitioners, Occupational Health Units, solicitors, medical colleagues, psychologists and various health and social care professionals to assess, diagnose and treat mental disorders.
  
  
• 2001 to 2017 - Force Consultant Psychiatrist Merseyside Constabulary
• The work undertaken as a Force Consultant Psychiatrist for Merseyside Constabulary involved regular assessment and diagnostic formulation of the employees of the constabulary, advice on occupational health matters such as ability to undertake operational duties, return to work, retirement on medical grounds, disability etc.
  
  
• 2006 to 2019 - Consultant Psychiatrist, Cygnet Hospital Bierley, Bradford, West Yorkshire
• Consultant duties at Cygnet Hospital Bierley: Responsible Clinician to a maximum of 15 patients, detained under the Mental Health Act 1983. These were patients in Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit. Previously involved in treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder with complex trauma.
  
  
• 2003 to 2021 - Consultant Clinical Advisor, Psychiatric Claims, Vitality Health UK
• As a Consultant Clinical Advisor to Vitality Health UK, provision of advice and opinion on the validity of insurance claims and policies surrounding mental health service.
• 1 February 2000 - 31 January 2006 - Consultant Psychiatrist, Adult Psychiatry - St. Luke's Hospital - South West Yorkshire Mental Health NHS Trust - Huddersfield.
• August 1996 - May 1999 - Consultant Psychiatrist - Calderdale Healthcare NHS Trust - Community Mental Health Development, service provision for Liaison Psychiatry. Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer, Department of Psychiatry, University of Leeds; Clinical Tutor for Halifax Hospitals in Psychiatry.
• April 1995 - August 1996 - Consultant Psychiatrist in General Adult Psychiatry, with special interest in Liaison Psychiatry, Shropshire Mental Health NHS Trust, Shrewsbury, Shropshire.

Higher Professional Specialist Training in Psychiatry - 1992 to 1995

• 1 April 1994 - 12 April 1995 - Senior Registrar - in Adult General Psychiatry with special interest in Community Psychiatry and Liaison Psychiatry, Shelton Hospital, Shrewsbury, SY3 8DN.
• 1 February 1994 - 31 March 1994 - Acting Consultant - Adult General Psychiatry with special interest in Community Psychiatry, Combined Health Care Trust, Stoke-on-Trent, ST4 6QG.
• 1 April 1993 - 31 March 1994 - Senior Registrar - Adult General Psychiatry with special interests in Community Psychiatry and Post-Partum mental illness, Professorial Unit, University of Keele/City General Hospital, Stoke-on-Trent, ST4 6QZ. 'The Hospital Doctor of the Year Award Team', experience in child protection case conferences.
• 13 April 1992 - 31 March 1993 - Senior Registrar - Adult General Psychiatry, Royal Shrewsbury Hospital - Shelton, Shrewsbury SY3 8DN.

Post-Graduate Professional Training in Psychiatry - 1988 to 1992

• 1 February 1992 - 12 April 1992 - Registrar, Academic Department of Psychiatry, University of Leicester with special interest in social and community Psychiatry.
• August 1989 - January 1992 - Registrar - Learning Disability, Acute General Psychiatry, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Forensic Psychiatry and Social and Rehabilitation Psychiatry. Experience in Forensic Psychiatry included working in a 45 bed Regional Secure Unit. Competence was gained in provision of a range of services for the mentally abnormal offender.
• 1 August 1988 - 31 July 1989 - Senior House Officer - Salford Psychiatric Post graduate rotational training scheme, and Burnley General Hospital.

General Professional Training - 1983 to 1988

• October 1985 - January 1988 - Senior House Officer - General Medicine, Respiratory Medicine: Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale Health Authority UK.
• June 1985 - October 1985 - SHO - General Medicine, Queen Elizabeth II Hospital, Welwyn Garden UK.
• August 1984 - February 1985 - Resident Senior House Officer - Academic Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Intensive and Coronary Care Unit and Academic Department of Medicine, St John's Medical College Hospital, University of Bangalore, India.
• March 1984 - August 1984 - Resident Senior House Officer in Intensive and Coronary care unit at St John's Medical College Hospital, University of Bangalore, India.
• December 1983 - March 1984 - Senior House Officer in the Academic Department of Medicine at St. John's Medical College Hospital, University of Bangalore.
• 1982-1983 - House Officer at St. Luke's Hospital, and Nityaseva Hospital, Maharashtra, India.

Committee, organisational and management experience

• Junior Doctors Representative at the Medical Staff Committee, Towers Hospital, Leicester.
• Junior Doctors Representative in the "Working Party on Medical Cover for Leicestershire Psychiatric Units".
• Member of the "Working Party for Implementation of Care Programme Approach and hospital discharge policy in N.Staffordshire District".
• Member of the Regional working party "Educational goals and attainment for higher professional training for" JCHPT, Royal College of Psychiatry.
• Member of working party "Project Management for initiation of Community Mental Health Teams in Shropshire District".
• Secretary of the "West Midlands Senior Registrars in Psychiatry Peer Group".
• Consultant Advisor Steering Committee "Sectorized Psychiatric Outreach Emergency Service" within Shropshire Mental Health NHS Trust and Shropshire Social Services.
• Member of the Regional Working Party "Management Training for Senior Registrars -A Blue Print".
• Consultant Advisor - Joint Project Working Committee - Calderdale Healthcare NHS Trust and Social Services.
• Member of the Mental Health Quality Forum Group - Calderdale Healthcare NHS Trust - Senior Management Level.
• Member of Local Research Ethics Committee, Calderdale Healthcare NHS Trust.
• Yorkshire Regional Psychiatric Tutors Committee, University of Leeds.
• Consultant Advisor for Psychiatry Development, Huddersfield Nuffield Hospital. Member of Medical Advisory Committee, Huddersfield Nuffield Hospital.
• Member of Drugs and Therapeutics Committee, Psychiatric Division, Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Trust.
• Member of Medical Advisory Committee, Clinical Governance and Clinical Audit, Cygnet Hospital Bierley.

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Certificates

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