CPFT consultant and leading clinician with children's hospital is awarded MBE
Dr Isobel Heyman who works for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust and also has a leading role with the pioneering Cambridge Children’s Hospital project has been named in the New Year’s Honours list.
The MBE she has been awarded is in recognition of her career as a consultant psychiatrist working with children and young people.
Dr Heyman works with CPFT’s paediatric mental health services is also clinical co-lead with the Cambridge Children’s Hospital.
Cambridge Children’s represents a unique collaboration between the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT), Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (CUH) and the University of Cambridge, to develop a state-of-the-art children’s hospital delivering a truly innovative model of healthcare for children and young people.
Dr Heyman said: “I am deeply appreciative of this honour. With the group-effort of skilled clinical teams, it is an enormous privilege to care for children and families experiencing the most difficult of times.
“The Cambridge Children’s Hospital project, working to fully integrate physical and mental health care for the first time, means more to me in many ways than anything I’ve done before. Pulling together the treatment of physical and mental health is something that I’ve have been passionate about for my whole career.”
Cambridge Children’s Hospital will be the first specialist children’s hospital for the East of England, unique in treating children and young people’s physical and mental health together, under one roof, alongside world-leading research into childhood disease, diagnosis and treatment.
CPFT’s Interim Medical Director Dr Cathy Walsh said: “This is a fantastic and well-deserved honour for Isobel, but it also puts the vital work we are doing to design a fully integrated children’s hospital firmly in the spotlight. Treating a child’s mental health and physical health together will lead to far better outcomes, not just for patients but also their families.”
Dr Heyman – who also works as a consultant and honorary professor at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and at the UCL Institute for Child Health - said none of the initiatives to put mental health research into clinical practice would have been possible without the collaboration of Tamsin Ford, professor of child and adolescent psychiatry who works for CPFT and the University of Cambridge, who is also member of the Cambridge Children’s Hospital team, and Professor Roz Shafran from the Institute of Child Health.
Dr Heyman added: “There is much more to be done to ensure all young people receive the mental health care they need - so it is important and gratifying for child mental health to be recognised in an award.”
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For more information contact:
Anna Todd
Communications and Engagement Manager - CPFT
E anna.todd@cpft.nhs.uk
