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Gavin Tucker

Psychiatry Core Trainee, Maudsley Training Programme

Gavin Tucker is a psychiatry core trainee at the Maudsley Training Programme in London and co-president of the Junior Doctors Committee, 2020-21. His co-authored book A Guide to Psychiatric Examination is forthcoming with Elsevier in 2021.

Written by Gavin Tucker

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Self-harm and suicide

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What working in emergency care taught me about suicide risk

Most who die by suicide were considered to be at low or no risk. We need a new framework for understanding the dangers

by Gavin Tucker