Dr Chaudhry Rehman

Dr Chaudry Rehman is a general psychiatrist with specialist registration in UK since 2003, currently based in Tunbridge Wells. He has vast experience in treating personality disorders, depression, anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder, phobias, post traumatic stress disorder, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorders. He also is highly knowledgeable in the treatment of first episode psychosis, somatoform disorders and a psychiatric sequalae of neurological disorders like Huntington’s, post brain injury and behavioural changes.

Dr Rehman graduated from army Medical College Rawalpindi in January 1988 and initially served as a regimental medical officer with Northern Light Infantry before completing his postgraduate training in anaesthesiology at Armed Forces Institute Rawalpindi. He retrained in psychiatry completing his post graduate training at The Institute of Psychiatry and WHO Collaborating Centre for Mental Health, Research & Substance Misuse Rawalpindi General Hospital in 1998. He then worked as a consultant psychiatrist and assistant professor of Psychiatry Rawalpindi Medical College before taking up a substantive consultant post at South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust in 2003.

Dr Rehman was awarded the coveted Burki Gold Medal from College of Physicians & Surgeons Pakistan in 1998 and Pakistan Psychiatric Society Gold Medal for outstanding psychiatrist of the year in 2000. Dr Rehman was an advisor to the Federal Ministry of Health Pakistan in Mental Health and WHO EMRO Region and involved in drafting the first mental health act in Pakistan in an attempt to replace outdated Lunacy Act 1912 from British Raj.

In 2003 Dr Rehman started as a substantive consultant psychiatrist with South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust working in assessment and brief treatment team accepting referrals from GP’s. He quickly developed a teaching programme to assist GP’s inviting them to visit Community Mental Health Team and also going to GP practices to enhance patient experience. In 2006 he moved to Powell Ward in a sector-based model looking after complex patients in the community and also managing them in inpatients. In 2009 when Clinical Academic Groups were formed Dr Rehman took up a management role to manage all acute inpatient services provided by SLaM consisting of 18 acute inpatient units and 4 PICU’s across 4 hospitals sites Lambeth Hospital, Maudsley Hospital, University Hospital Lewisham & Bethlem Royal Hospital. He designed and implemented a uniform acute inpatient care model to enhance patient experience and deliver consistent care, wherever the patient was admitted. Dr Rehman was key in involving clinicians in bed management, a model which has been replicated in various Trusts.

In his role as associate clinical director for Lewisham he delivered the community transformation plan liaising with external stake holders including Clinical Commissioning Groups. He was awarded 4 Clinical Excellence awards by 2016 for his services to enhance patient experience and service transformations.

Dr Rehman is an accredited trainer in psychiatry and is an educational supervisor and clinical supervisor for multiple Foundation, Core & Higher Trainees at any given time. He teaches and supervises medical students from Kings College London.

Dr Rehman has a vast experience of over 25 years working as a consultant psychiatrist both in Pakistan and UK. He is fluent in Urdu, Punjabi & Hindi.