Dr Richard Bowskill

Dr Richard Bowskill is a leading consultant psychiatrist at Flint Healthcare in Brighton & Hove who specialises in the treatment of depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, trauma, ADHD and obsessive compulsive disorder.

Dr Bowskill read medicine at Cambridge University where also obtained a Masters Degree in experimental psychology. He completed his training at Guy’s Hospital in London where his interests in psychiatry developed. Dr Bowskill then completed his membership of the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

During his training, Dr Bowskill worked at the national unit for affective disorders at the Maudsley Hospital for two years. It was here where he developed an interest in the treatment of depression.

Dr Bowskill is an honorary clinical senior lecturer at Brighton and Sussex Medical School. He works part-time at the Sussex Partnership NHS trust. Previously, he was Deputy Head of the Post Graduate Medical School and led the development of the psychiatry curriculum at Brighton and Sussex Medical School for the school’s first ten years. 

From 2006 to 2017, Dr Bowskill was Medical Director at the Priory Hospital Brighton & Hove, which is now know as Elysium Healthcare. Between 2015 to 2016, he was also the National Clinical Director of Addictions at the Priory Group. 

Dr Bowskill lead the Clinical Academic Group for Bipolar Affective Disorders and is the Deputy Chair for the Mood and Anxiety Clinical Academic Group at the Sussex Partnership NHS Trust from 2015 to 2019 and is now the Acute Clinical Lead for Brighton and Hove.