Kate Adlington

Kate is an Academic Clinical Fellow in the Section of Women’s Mental Health and a trainee in psychiatry at South London and Maudsley NHS Trust. Her research interests include perinatal mental health, the intersection between physical and mental health and social determinants of mental health.

Kate studied graduate entry Medicine at KCL after completing an undergraduate degree in Human Sciences at Oxford University. She has a Diploma in the Ethics and Philosophy of Medicine and has achieved Membership of the Royal College of Physicians and Membership of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

Kate has worked as a medical and psychiatry trainee in North and East London for ten years and moved to SLaM in 2019. She has an interest in leadership and management and was appointed as a Clinical Fellow to the National Medical Director working at NHS England and The BMJ in 2014-15. She has continued to work as a clinical editor at The BMJ alongside her clinical training and is Trainee and Highlights Editor at the British Journal of Psychiatry.

She is currently undertaking an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellowship in Translational Psychiatry and is exploring near miss obstetric and psychiatric events in the perinatal period and the role of historical trauma in perinatal mental health.

Research Interests

• Women's mental health
• Perinatal mental health
• Health of people with an intellectual disability
• Parity of esteem for physical and mental health
• Social determinants of mental health

Key publications

• ‘Highlights of this issue’ Adlington, K. BJPsych April 2021. 218(4): A15
• ‘Identifying evidence of effectiveness in the co-creation of research: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the international healthcare literature’ Halvorsrud, K. Kucharska, J. Adlington, K. Bhui K. et al Journal of Public Health. Oct 2019. 43(1):197-208 (PMID 31608396)
• ‘Prompt detection vital in postpartum mood disorders’. Catalao, R. Adlington, K. Protti, O. The Practitioner. 2019 June;263(1827):21-26.
• ‘Improving access to genetic testing for adults with intellectual disability: A literature review and lessons from a quality improvement project in East London’ Adlington K., Smith J., Crabtree J. et al American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics. 2019 May. (PMID: 31077569)
• ‘Pursuing parity: genetic tests for psychiatric conditions in the UK National Health Service’ Curtis, D; Adlington, K; Bhui, K. The British Journal of Psychiatry. May 2019. 214(5), 248-250. (PMID: 30900968)
• ‘Better care: Reducing length of stay and bed occupancy on an older adult psychiatric ward’ Adlington K., Brown J. et al BMJ Open Qual 2018;7:e000149. (PMID: 30515462)
• ‘Pop a million happy pills? Antidepressants, nuance and the media’ Adlington K. BMJ 2018;360:k1069 (PMID: 29523579)
• ‘Conflicts of Interest within England’s NHS’ Heath I, Adlington K. BMJ 2017;357:j1590 (PMID: 28373176)
• ‘Disclosure UK: transparency should no longer be an optional extra’ Adlington K, Godlee F. BMJ. 2016 Jul 6;354:i3730. (PMID: 27383187)
• ‘The General Medical Council and doctor’s financial interests’ Adlington K, Abbasi K, Godlee F. BMJ 2015;350:h474 (PMID: 25630755)
• ‘Evaluation of the Routine Clinical Use of the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) and the Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale (AIMS)’ Bark, N., Adlington, K. et al J Psychiatr Pract. 2011 Jul;17(4):300-3. (PMID: 21775833)