Our team sees Middlemore Hospital inpatients aged 18 and older. We provide mental health assessment and treatment for issues such as difficulties with emotions such as depression and anxiety, suicidal thoughts, difficulties coping and adjusting to health problems or disability, problems with memory or thinking, mental illness such as psychosis, and medically unexplained symptoms.

Our services include:

• support of medical and nursing staff in providing psychological care
• teaching and training in psychiatric aspects of medicine 
• assessment of suspected mental health conditions
• assessment of confusion or memory problems
• assessment of risk to self or others
• advice and support for managing behavioural disturbance
• advice on capacity and Mental Health Act related issues
• referral to other specialist mental health services, including inpatient mental health units

Our team includes (October 2025):

• Dr Diana Richardson - Liaison Psychiatrist 
• Dr Lina Groenewald - Liaison Psychiatrist 
• Dr John Hopkins - Liaison Psychiatrist
• Clare Maclean - Liaison Psychiatrist
• Alex  De-Viell - Clinical Nurse Specialist
• Wanxuan Liu - Clinical Nurse Specialist
• Nat Woodward- Clinical Nurse Specialist
• Teresa Harris - Clinical Nurse Specialist
• Psychiatric Registrars on rotation
• Philipa Loseby -General Health Psychologist