It was a celebration of achievement as Dr Peter Lewis retired from his current post as Executive Medical Director at BSMHFT after 15 years of outstanding service to the trust and also the community. After qualifying as a Medical Officer in 1972 from the University of West Indies, and completing his higher training in Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, he returned to the Caribbean to work as a consultant Psychiatrist at St Anne’s Hospital.
In 2001 Peter came to England and was headhunted by the then Northern Birmingham Mental Health Trust, tasked with developing services for Black and Ethnic Minority patients in the Handsworth and Ladywood areas.
In 2005 after the merger of the trust with the South Birmingham Mental Health Trust he was appointed as Clinical Director for services in the Heart of Birmingham PCT area. He was instrumental in improving service delivery during his tenure, before in 2009 he was appointed as Executive Medical Director and joined the board of Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust.
As MD his legacy includes the modernisation of services, including electronic prescribing and the introduction of digital dictation, and remodelling of the clinical services.
Peter is also a Foundation board member of the WMAHSN influencing the network to include mental health as a clinical priority area resulting in significant support for innovation programs within BSMHFT including MUS, Youth programmes (Youth Space and App development), RAID and the establishment of the national RAID Network.
