Mayura Deshpande

Mayura Deshpande is a consultant in forensic psychiatry and the National Specialty Advisor in secure care to NHS England. She is chair of the Adult Secure Clinical Reference Group and works with clinicians and commissioners to advise NHS England on matters to do with inpatient low, medium and high secure forensic services and community forensic services. 

Mayura works clinically in a low secure service in Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, a large provider of community and mental health services in Hampshire and is the Caldicott Guardian for the Trust. She has previously held a number of senior management posts in the Trust. She is also an honorary senior lecturer at the University of Southampton where her research interests include patient safety and mental health homicide investigation methodology. 

She has a longstanding interest in ethics and law, and was, until April 2022, chair of the RCPsych Professional Practice & Ethics Committee. She is currently the College’s Associate Registrar for Policy and its lead for the Invited Review Service.