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Posted on 17 Oct 2023

Dr Pallab Majumder, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist at Nottinghamshire Healthcare has been shortlisted in the Healthcare Honours Awards in the Expanding Impact category. 

Healthcare Honours is a unique event, run by the British Journal of Healthcare Management, where nominees are recognised and celebrated for their achievements and contributions to the delivery of NHS services and their exceptional leadership skills.

Dr Majumder has been shortlisted for his outstanding commitment to making a difference to the lives of children and young people, ensuring they receive the best possible mental health support. 

Part of Dr Majumder’s work is with looked after children (LAC), who are children or young people who are being cared for by their local authority, who often have complex needs. He’s committed to achieving the best outcomes for individuals by promoting multiagency approach, ensuring organisations work together and focus on preventative, early-intervention, public health focused trauma informed care. Trauma informed care involves considering how these children and young people could be affected by experiences in their childhood and responding to those needs. 

Dr Majumder said:

I am delighted to be shortlisted for this award. I want to make a difference in the field of child and adolescent mental health, and mental health of the population in general. I shall continue on this endeavour with my love and commitment for the speciality, and energy and enthusiasm to improve child mental health.

As Honorary Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham, he leads research with vulnerable groups like LAC and refugee children, to make a difference to their lives. His work is dedicated to developing evidence of what works best to meet their complex needs and embed evidence based practice that is clinically effective and most efficient to utilise resources.

Paula Vaughan, Mental Health Care Group Director at Nottinghamshire Healthcare said:

Congratulations to Dr Majumder on this fantastic achievement. He is exceptionally  passionate about children and young people receiving the best possible care and has shown outstanding commitment to working to ensure patients receive the care  they need, centred around their specific individual needs. We all wish him the best of luck for the next stage.

He has also taken up a number of quality improvement projects and achieved research funding aiming to understand and improve the transition of mental health care between different areas of the service, such as the transition between inpatient and community care. This involves working with a number of other organisations in the region and across the country to ensure the patient gets the care they need.

As an elected member of the Executive Committee Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Faculty Royal College of Psychiatrist, he aspires to, and continues to fight for better child mental health, and wellbeing of professionals, on a national stage.

Winners will be announced at the Healthcare Honours Ceremony in the Houses of Parliament on 23 November 2023