Dr Pulkit Kaushal

I am Dr Kaushal, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist working in North Cumbria, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS).

Clinically my role involves assessment and treatment planning for children adolescents referred to CAMHS for mental health issues, neurodevelopmental problems like Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) and Autism, Intellectual Disability (ID) and eating disorders. As a consultant I help all teams (CAMHS, Eating Disorder, ADHD, Crisis team, ID team) to discuss and plan management for the complex cases. As part of CAMHS on call duties, I deal with emergency presentations in A & E and consultation-liaison. This involve making decisions about legal safeguards for young people in crisis, supervising core trainees and crisis team staff for emergency consultations and carry out mental health act assessments if needed.

As a trainer, I am responsible for supervising medical students, psychiatry trainees, psychologists, CAMHS professionals and Non-medical Prescribers (NMP). I am involved with specific role in medical education (Med Ed) as Associate tutor, that entails taking leadership roles in Med Ed and quality improvement. I am also one of the Consultant Leads for organizing Academic program for core trainees in Cumbria.

As part of my Leadership role, I am part of pathway development for teams, take part in business meetings to shape up the service with team managers and stakeholders in CNTW NHS trust.

I have 9 publications in total. Latest ones are:

1. Technology Matters: Collaboratively augmenting longitudinal monitoring (CALM) in bipolar disorder–co‐design, co‐production and evaluation of the alpha prototype app. Sharma AN, Barron‐Millar E, Gaskell M, Glod M, Kaushal P, Grieve K, Pervez M. Child and Adolescent Mental Health. 2022 Mar 8.
2. Process and Outcome Evaluations of Smartphone Apps for Bipolar Disorder: Scoping Review. Tatham I, Clarke E, Grieve KA, Kaushal P, Smeddinck J, Millar EB, Sharma AN. Journal of medical Internet research. 2022 Mar 23;24(3):e29114.
3. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and comorbidity: A review of literature. World Journal of Clinical Cases 2019. Gnanavel S, Sharma P, Kaushal P and Hussain S