About
I strongly believe in patient-centred, holistic and collaborative care, and bring a compassionate and empathetic approach, using evidence-based guidelines in my assessment and treatment of individuals. My ethos is to treat people in the way I would want a member of my own family to be treated, and this remains at the forefront of my approach during consultations and ongoing management.
Position at Priory
Dr Nagpal is a consultant psychiatrist specialising in general adult psychiatry. She currently works at Priory Hospital Woking, where she provides care across outpatient, inpatient and day hospital services. Dr Nagpal is fully registered with the General Medical Council and holds approved clinician (AC) status. She is also Section 12 approved.
Training
Dr Nagpal graduated from Imperial College London with a BSc in neurosciences with basic medical sciences, alongside her MBBS. She has also completed MRCPsych (membership of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, UK) and holds a CCT (certificate of completion of training) in general adult psychiatry.
Dr Nagpal began her psychiatry training in New Zealand with the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, where she gained experience in general adult and old age psychiatry.
She later returned to the UK to continue her training on the Guy’s, King’s and St Thomas’ Hospital training scheme in London. During this time, she completed rotations in community and inpatient psychiatry, child and adolescent psychiatry, addictions psychiatry and liaison psychiatry. She also gained experience in forensic psychiatry at Broadmoor Hospital.
Following completion of her core training, Dr Nagpal undertook higher specialist training in general adult psychiatry with the South West London and St George’s training scheme. This included placements in community and inpatient psychiatry, eating disorders within a national service, rehabilitation psychiatry, and international psychiatry, including three months in Ghana.
Dr Nagpal has since worked as a consultant psychiatrist for over 13 years, primarily within the NHS in London and the North West of England. Her experience spans inpatient psychiatry, psychiatric intensive care units, community psychiatry and early intervention in psychosis services.
She has also worked internationally in Perth, Australia, within an Aboriginal mental health service and an acute inpatient ward, before moving to Gibraltar where she worked for both the Gibraltar Health Authority and the Specialist Medical Clinic.
Research interests
- 1997 – Research project entitled ‘Syndromes of schizotypy associated with P3 amplitude and latency’ (as part of BSc Neuroscience). The study explored whether there is a reduction in P3 amplitude and a prolongation of P3 latency in individuals scoring highly on the global schizotypy scale.
- 2010 – Survey examining the prescription of nutritional supplements in adults with anorexia nervosa on admission to an inpatient unit.
- Protocol devised, discussed and approved by the South West London and St George’s NHS Trust Drug and Therapeutics Committee
• Protocol circulated to inpatient eating disorder teams across the trust and subsequently re-audited
• Presented as a poster at the Royal College of Psychiatrists Section of Eating Disorders Annual Conference on 4 November 2011 - 2011 – Survey exploring treatment goals within the ABT team, as defined by the patient, and whether these are achieved by the end of treatment.
• Questionnaire incorporated into assessment and monitoring processes to support achievement of CQUIN recovery goals