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The CAMHS team comprises:
Additional expertise and capacity is available through the use of senior
consultants and our national reviewer database of senior practising clinicians
and managers.
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Yvonne Anderson is the lead director for child and adolescent mental health services at the Health and Social Care Advisory Service (HASCAS). Prior to joining the organisation Yvonne was service manager for CAMHS in Kingston and District Community NHS Trust and CAMHS Clinical Governance Manager in South West London and St Georges Mental Health Trust. Formerly she had been a health education consultant and senior research fellow at the University of Southampton.
Recent work at HASCAS includes national projects in CAMHS to adult transition, CAMHS partnership facilitation, CAMHS self assessment and best practice in ADHD. Local commissions have included needs assessment, service mapping, service review and workforce development.
Before joining the NHS Yvonne led a number of projects in multi disciplinary team work and developed teaching and learning materials for health professionals studying at post graduate level. Prior to that she ran a consultancy service to public and voluntary sector organisations, following earlier work in teaching and social care.
Yvonne has published a number of practice based and theoretical documents. Her doctoral research proposes a grounded theory of facilitative leadership for collaborative working. She has an academic interest in auto/biography and narrative method and is on the editorial board of the international journal, Health Education and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
