Dr Stephen Attard

Dr Stephen Attard is a senior consultant forensic psychiatrist, employed by Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust. He has experience of working with people who have multiple complex needs and, in his position within the Close Supervision Centre, additionally works with some of the most high risk individuals, in the country.

Dr Attard has extensive experience of setting up clinical services, including services for the assessment and treatment of ADHD. He has presented, both to local services and the Quality Network for Prison Mental Health Services (QNPMHS), on the development of ADHD services.

He has experience in working across a wide range of clinical settings including private outpatients clinic, secure services, including at Broadmoor Hospital, male and female psychiatric intensive care, liaison and diversion and community services. Dr Attard has held leadership roles, contributed to policy change and strategy development, and led improvement projects that have been successful in gaining funding, creating new services, and bridging the inter-agency divides such as those often seen across the health and criminal justice pathway.

He is involved in medical education including having a leading role in training projects locally, most recently with the Met Police, and internationally, including in Denmark and Ghana, where he has worked with the Royal College of Psychiatrists to develop and deliver a forensic training package for psychiatrists in Ghana. He is actively involved in research, was highly commended in the 2021 Faculty of Forensic Psychiatry Research Prize and is a published author in peer reviewed national and international journals.

Dr Attard is also an experienced expert witness who regularly gives oral evidence in both crown and magistrates court and has experience of providing psychiatric reports in various legal proceedings.
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