Dr Nicholas Woodthorpe BSc (Hons) MBBS MBA MRCPsych

Consultant Psychiatrist

Dr Nicholas Woodthorpe studied for a BSc (Hons) Management with Economics and graduated at Royal Holloway, University of London in 1995. He then read medicine at University College London and qualified in 2000. He initially started training as a GP and then specialised in psychiatry in 2004. He obtained his MRCPsych in 2007 and then did an MBA (Health Executive) at Keele University part-time, which he completed in 2010.

He started as a Consultant Psychiatrist for Older Adults in 2010 and worked in Bath, Maidenhead and Wells before commencing in Wokingham in 2012.

He has a particular interest in dementia, depression, anxiety and psychosis. He has expertise in doing capacity assessments in various scenarios, but mainly for Lasting Power of Attorney and Wills.

He is also passionate about quality in healthcare and patient safety. As part of his MBA he wrote a dissertation entitled “Do psychiatrists learn from quality failures in the NHS?” He is also a Principal Investigator in Berkshire for the Minocycline in Alzheimer’s Disease Efficacy (MADE) Trial.

He has two publications in peer reviewed journals:

Woodthorpe N, Bakhsh E, Paton C. Quality and patient safety in mental health. British Journal of Healthcare Management. 2013. Vol. 19. No. 8. pp 383-390.

Parry M, Woodthorpe N, Gunawardena P. Changing futures: premature discharges of alcohol or opioid detoxification in-patients, service improvement. The Psychiatrist. 2010. Vol. 34. pp 200-203.

He is Chairman of the Local Negotiation Committee at Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. He is also Vice-Chair of the BMA Oxford Regional Consultants Committee and a member of the BMA National Consultants Committee.

Outside of work he married and he and his wife have one daughter. He was Chairman of Henley-on-Thames Round Table from 2014-15.