Dr Peter Phillips is Senior Lecturer in Addiction in the Department of Mental Health & Learning Disability at City University London, and Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Mental Health Sciences, at University College London Medical School. Peter’s background is in low threshold drug services in inner London, and substance use research.

Dr Olive McKeown works at St George’s Medical School in London, taking a lead role in under-graduate medical education. She is actively involved in substance misuse and dual diagnosis education within a wide range of medical, nursing and inter-professional programmes

Tom Sandford is Director of RCN England and former RCN Advisor on Mental Health.  Tom was previously general manager of mental health services in the London boroughs of Camden and Islington.