Thanks to Rushanara Ali MP 💙 Manzila Pola Uddin @bbpauk annual Conference Royal College of Psychiatrists for expressing political will to support diaspora groups in improving access to mental health for minority ethnic groups. Powerful speechs and anecdotal stories inspired audiences.

If you’ve missed it here is the recording tinyurl.com/3cwp4a78 where we talk candidly past, present & future of nhs South Asian workforce Dr Shahid Latif Trudi Seneviratne 🌠 JS Bamrah CBE Kate Lovett Lade Smith CBE NANDINI CHAKRABORTY Rajesh Mohan🌈 Mala Rao BIPA UK BBPA British Pakistani Psychiatrists Association Mala Rao

VIpSIG video pitch competition is accepting submissions. Deadline midday Friday 13 October 2023 rcpsych GAP Wendy Burn CBE (She/her) Robert Howard Abdul Raoof Dr Ananta Dave exploring life’s palette of shades Mohammed Al-Uzri Rajesh Mohan🌈 Amrit Sachar 🇵🇸 #StopTheGenocide RCPsych West Midlands Royal College of Psychiatrists Lade Smith CBE Derek Tracy BIPA UK BBPA British Pakistani Psychiatrists Association Al Richards - Expert by Experience 🇮🇳 🇨🇩 🇬🇧

Glad to share, successfully ran first ever safe restrictive practice Workshop in Bangladesh with expertise from a UK nurse. BBPA RCPsychViPSiG Lade Smith CBE Wendy Burn CBE (She/her) Rajesh Mohan🌈 Mohammed Al-Uzri NANDINI CHAKRABORTY Kate Lovett Mala Rao Monira Ahmed Chowdhury British Pakistani Psychiatrists Association BIPA UK Al Richards - Expert by Experience 🇮🇳 🇨🇩 🇬🇧

An example how BBPA Diaspora group as volunteers can be a catalyst for greater good. Join the force BIPA UK BAPIO British Pakistani Psychiatrists Association Association of Black Psychiatrists, UK (ABP-UK) rcpsych GAP Psychiatric Trainees' Committee (PTC) rcpsychReads RCPsych Trent RCPsych International Royal College of Psychiatrists RCPsych Digital Psychiatry SIG RCPsych South Eastern Old Age Psychiatry 🌈 RCPsych West Midlands

BBPA UN Volunteers Volunteering Matters The BMA rcpsychReads RCPsych International RCPsych Digital Psychiatry SIG Royal College of Psychiatrists Old Age Psychiatry 🌈 RCPsych CCQI Rehab and Social Psychiatry Faculty Sheffield PsychSoc Nikki Cochrane 🌈 she/her #StaySafe UoB PsychSoc Aston PsychSoc UoL PsychSoc QMUL Psych Society WMS PsychSoc UoL PsychSoc @TheLancetPsych

My message to 4000 #vipsig members gone out today 👉🏻tinyurl.com/wvachmr3 👈Join our conference 27 October & share your thoughts for humanitarian crisis. NANDINI CHAKRABORTY Lade Smith CBE Mohammed Al-Uzri Kate Lovett Femi Oyebode Rajesh Mohan🌈 United for Global Mental Health British Pakistani Psychiatrists Association BIPA UK BBPA Dr Saima Niaz

#vipsig conference Royal College of Psychiatrists Prof Melanie Abas interview by Dr ⚕️Anis Ahmed 🌹 💙 on volunteering opportunities in academic capacity building in LMIC MatthewBroome💙 Wendy Burn CBE (She/her) Mohammed Al-Uzri NANDINI CHAKRABORTY Raja Adnan Ahmed Nikki Cochrane 🌈 she/her #StaySafe BBPA British Pakistani Psychiatrists Association BIPA UK Subodh Dave ☘️🌻🌞 Humanising Medicine Baher Ibrahim Dr Fabida Aria

In #vipsig essay & video pitch winner don’t take all. It was hard to judge “winners” among all the submissions. 👉🏻 tinyurl.com/VIpSIG23 👈 Wendy Burn CBE (She/her) NANDINI CHAKRABORTY Prof. Thomas G. Schulze 🎗INDEPENDENT Libertarian Rajesh Mohan🌈 Prof Asif Ahmed World Psychiatric Association (WPA) wpanet.org rcpsych GAP Dr ⚕️Anis Ahmed 🌹 💙 Psychiatric Trainees' Committee (PTC) Royal College of Psychiatrists Mohammed Al-Uzri

#RCPsychIC special edition #ViPSiG newsletter, excellent articles to share NANDINI CHAKRABORTY Mohammed Al-Uzri rcpsychReads Royal College of Psychiatrists Trudi Seneviratne 🌠 Subodh Dave ☘️🌻🌞 Humanising Medicine Lade Smith CBE Nikki Cochrane 🌈 she/her #StaySafe Prof. Thomas G. Schulze 🎗INDEPENDENT Libertarian MatthewBroome💙 Psychiatric Trainees' Committee (PTC) RCPsych International BBPA read 👉🏻tinyurl.com/NewsIC24 👈

Excellent piece of work by Shamiya and Ayah VIPSIG essay prize winners for 2023. Keep articles coming: volunteering, global mental health. Submit by 3rd November 2024 for Winter Edition of the newsletter, at [email protected]; 'Article for VIPSIG newsletter’ in subject line

Special edition #RCPsychIC #ViPSiG newsletter 👉🏻 tinyurl.com/NewsIC24👈 inspiring reflections,interview RCPsych South West rcpsychReads RCPsychScot RCPsychPanAmerica Amrit Sachar 🇵🇸 #StopTheGenocide Saeed Farooq Dr Karen Treisman, MBE, Clinical Psychologist Derek Tracy Poppy Jaman OBE She/Her পপি জামান Rajesh Mohan🌈 MuslimCounsellorNtwk Dr Saima Niaz Royal College of Psychiatrists Robert Howard

#RCPsychIC inspiring invitation to share cultural diversity. #EidMubarak Abdullah Mia Abdul Raoof Mohammed Al-Uzri Dr Fabida Aria MatthewBroome💙 Wendy Burn CBE (She/her) Lade Smith CBE NANDINI CHAKRABORTY Derek Tracy R Ghafoor MuslimCounsellorNtwk Al Richards - Expert by Experience 🇮🇳 🇨🇩 🇬🇧 Saeed Farooq Femi Oyebode geopsychiatry Dr Imran Waheed 🌙✨

Team BPPA in Edinburgh for the #RCpsychIC Dr Shahid Latif Dr Saima Niaz Farina Tahira Saadia Muzaffar Yasir Abbasi Dr Rais Irfan

Written to The Labour Party abt Sir Kier’s comments on immigration issues regarding Bangladeshi communities in UK Rushanara Ali MP 💙 Manzila Pola Uddin. I received distressing call from many how their mental health is affected by political rhetoric BBPA Lade Smith CBE Trudi Seneviratne 🌠 NANDINI CHAKRABORTY

Dr ⚕️Anis Ahmed 🌹 💙 The Labour Party Rushanara Ali MP 💙 Manzila Pola Uddin BBPA Lade Smith CBE Trudi Seneviratne 🌠 British Pakistani Psychiatrists Association BIPA UK Association of Black Psychiatrists, UK (ABP-UK) Bangladeshi Mental Health Forum (BMHF) BangladeshinUK British Bangladeshi Who's Who British Bangladeshi Society Croydon Bangladeshi Journalists in International Media Russell Razzaque Subodh Dave ☘️🌻🌞 Humanising Medicine Extremely well said Anis.

With heavy ❤️, as President of BBPA, written to Rushanara Ali MP 💙, Chair of the Bangladesh All-Party Parliamentary Group, urging to intervene & stop violence in Bangladesh.Situation is unbearable, death toll rising above 100. Rupa Huq MP Sarah Cooke Tom Hunt MP Shabana Mahmood MP