Dr. Claire Henderson FRCPsych, PhD

Professor of Public Mental Health at the Health Service and Population Research Department, King’s College London Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience. Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. Dr Henderson has led or worked on four studies on the effectiveness or implementation of advance statements in mental health care, the first two of which fed into the Independent Review of the Mental Health Act 2018 recommendation of Advance Choice Documents and have subsequently informed evidence submitted to the parliamentary scrutiny committee on the new mental health bill and work by DHSC on the potential cost effectiveness of introduction of ACDs.