Fellow's Profile
Mayura Deshpande
Fellow's Profile
Mayura Deshpande
How can we learn from mental health homicides to improve services and provide justice for victims?
Fellowship
- Themes
- Focus
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Improving systems for investigating mental health homicides and supporting bereaved families
- Countries
- Fellowship year
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2026
- Locality
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South East
Contact
Biography
I am a consultant in forensic psychiatry in Hampshire and work in the specialist community forensic team. I have had a longstanding interest in safety and human factors and have researched the methodology of mental health homicide inquiries in the NHS and systems for victim support in England.
The system in the UK, which has not changed much since its inception in the 1990s, will benefit from an international perspective. My Fellowship will therefore focus on learning about systems for investigating mental health homicides and support for bereaved families in other nations.
This is important because each mental health homicide leaves behind multiple victims in the form of bereaved families, and inquiries have a significant impact on safety of mental health services in the NHS and public policy.
Disclaimer
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Disclaimer
All Reports are copyright © the author. The moral right of the author has been asserted. The views and opinions expressed by any Fellow are those of the Fellow and not of the Churchill Fellowship or its partners, which have no responsibility or liability for any part of them.
