About
I bring over a decade of experience in managing complex adult mental health presentations, combining clinical expertise with senior healthcare leadership. My approach is collaborative, person-centred and firmly grounded in evidence-based practice.
I specialise in treating individuals with complex, multi-layered mental health difficulties that have often proven intractable to previous interventions. My clinical practice encompasses the full range of adult mental health conditions, delivered within a comprehensive biopsychosocial framework.
My treatment approach emphasises shared decision-making and holistic care. I conduct thorough diagnostic assessments and provide expert pharmacological management, whilst working collaboratively with colleagues within Priory to ensure patients receive integrated, multidisciplinary care tailored to their individual needs.
As deputy chief medical officer at Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Board, I bring strategic insight into healthcare quality and patient safety, alongside my clinical practice. I hold an Executive MBA from the University of Cambridge, where I studied as a healthcare scholar and was awarded the prestigious Primavera Prize. I am also a recipient of the Royal College of Psychiatrists' (RCPsych) John Hamilton Fellowship, recognising excellence in psychiatric practice and leadership.
My commitment is to provide compassionate, expert care that helps individuals navigate even the most challenging mental health difficulties towards recovery and improved quality of life.
Position at Priory
Visiting Consultant Psychiatrist
Priory Wellbeing Centre Manchester
Commenced: February 2026
Professional Bodies:
Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (FRCPsych)
Fellow of the Higher Education Authority (FHEA)
I maintain a substantive NHS role as deputy chief medical officer at Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Board, alongside clinical practice as a consultant psychiatrist with North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust. This enables me to bring current expertise in both clinical practice and healthcare leadership to my work with Priory patients.
My role at Priory focuses on providing expert psychiatric assessment, diagnosis and treatment for adults with complex mental health presentations.
Training
- Postgraduate Training in Psychiatry - North West of England
- Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) in Forensic Psychiatry
Research interests
I maintain active research interests in patient safety and quality improvement, suicide prevention, mental health service delivery and clinical governance. My work has been published in leading international journals including The BMJ and The Lancet.
Between 2010 and 2016, I worked as a researcher with the National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Safety in Mental Health (NCISH), the leading UK research programme on suicide prevention. During this period, I also held an National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Clinical Lectureship (2013-2016), conducting research to improve outcomes for individuals with severe mental illness.
I have served as a professional member of National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guideline development committees, contributing clinical expertise to national standards of care. My research focuses on improving outcomes for individuals with complex mental health needs and advancing evidence-based practice in psychiatric care.
For a complete list of publications, please see my Google Scholar profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=cPr2wGwAAAAJ
Links to clinical articles/research papers:
Selected publications:
- While, D., Bickley, H., Roscoe, A., Windfuhr, K., Rahman, S., Shaw, J., Appleby, L., & Kapur, N. (2012). Implementation of mental health service recommendations in England and Wales and suicide rates, 1997–2006: a cross-sectional and before-and-after observational study. The Lancet, 379(9820), 1005-1012.
- Kapur, N., Hunt, I.M., Windfuhr, K., Rodway, C., Webb, R., Rahman, M.S., Shaw, J., & Appleby, L. (2012). Psychiatric in-patient care and suicide in England, 1997 to 2008: a longitudinal study. Psychological Medicine, 1(1), 1-11.
Complete publication list available at:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=cPr2wGwAAAAJ
Languages
- English (fluent)
- Bengali/Bangla (fluent)