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Dr Hugh Series

DM, FRCPsych, LLM, MA, MB, BS

Hugh Series Hugh is a Consultant old age psychiatrist (or psychogeriatrician) at Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust and a Member of the Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford. He also sits as a medical member of the Mental Health Tribunal (first tier), and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

He has considerable experience in medico-legal matters as they affect older people. He writes over 100 reports each year for civil and criminal courts and the Court of Protection, and gives oral evidence in court about four times a year, as well as sitting on mental health tribunals about 40 days a year. He specialises in mental capacity.

Hugh regularly lectures and teaches students and health and legal professionals and has published over 40 papers and book chapters.

He specialises in old age psychiatry, seeing the full range of mental health problems in older people. This includes dementia (Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia), depression, bipolar affective disorder, schizophrenia, psychosis, anxiety disorders and post-traumatic stress disorder.

Areas of expertise

consent

capacity

mental health in older people

dementia including Alzheimers's disease

depression

psychosis

psychopharmacology

all psychiatric disorders of older people
mental health act
mental capacity act

Training

Hugh trained in medicine at the University of Oxford and Middlesex Hospital Medical School, London. After house jobs he spent a year carrying out research into the chemical systems of the brain at Karolinska Institute, Sweden.

He returned to Oxford for professional training in psychiatry, specialising in old age psychiatry. He was awarded a Wellcome Training Fellowship, spending three years researching brain chemistry at Johns Hopkins University, Karolinska Institute and Oxford, receiving the research degree of DM from Oxford.

He was appointed a consultant in old age psychiatry in 1995 in Oxfordshire, and remains an NHS consultant in Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust. He is approved under section 12(2) of the Mental Health Act, an approved Clinician under section 145 of the Mental Health Act, and approved as an assessor for Deprivation of Liberty authorizations under the Mental Capacity Act. He has a number of roles at the Royal College of Psychiatrists including being a member of Council, and the Chair of the SE DIvision of the Royal College.

Hugh enjoys keeping up to date through CPD and annual appraisal, and completed an LLM (with Distinction) in Legal Aspects of Medical Practice at Cardiff University in 2012. He holds the Cardiff University Law School–Bond Solon Expert Witness Certificate in civil and criminal procedure.