About us
Allen Associates
Dr Danny Allen is the founder and clinical lead of Allen Associates. He is a consultant psychiatrist with expertise in Adult and Addiction Psychiatry and expert witness work. As a consultant since 1994, he has had experience in a wide range of psychiatric subspecialties, including addictions, rehabilitation, assertive outreach, inpatient management, community mental health, crisis and acute day hospital and liaison psychiatry.
He has extensive experience of medico-legal reporting, having produced hundreds of reports for courts and tribunals across the UK and given evidence in courts and tribunals on many occasions. He has Cardiff University Bond Solon (CUBS) certificates in civil and family work.
About Dr Danny Allen
GMC no. 2496814 | MB BS LLM MRCGP MFFLM FRCPsych
Mental Illness
Personality Disorder
Alcohol and Drug Misuse
Neurodiversity (ADHD and ASD)
I trained as a doctor at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School, University of London. I worked as a GP in Australia and did medicine and paediatrics in New Zealand. In the UK, I spent some years working in A & E, orthopaedics, obstetrics and gynaecology and ENT before I trained as a general practitioner in Basingstoke. I then trained as a psychiatrist in Basingstoke and Bristol. I completed a master’s in mental health law in 2005. I have been involved in expert witness work since 1992 and have been a consultant since 1994.
I spent over 10 years working in a community mental health team in the NHS, latterly combining this with rehabilitation psychiatry. I then worked in an Assertive Outreach Team and was instrumental in setting up a Community Acute Service (an Acute Day Hospital combined with a Crisis and Home Treatment Service), also in the NHS, both of which I worked in for almost 7 years. I then worked for a year in an Immigration Removal Centre doing adult and addiction psychiatry.
I returned to the NHS part time in 2015 as a liaison psychiatrist in Stoke Mandeville and Wycombe Hospitals where I remain. For three and a half years I was the medical director of Apple Hill (rehabilitation) Hospital in Berkshire. I have a special interest in occupational health psychiatry and have consulted for the Occupational Health and Wellbeing Department of Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust since 2009. I am a GMC health assessor and supervisor.
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Speciality
Consultant in Adult & Addiction Psychiatry
NHS Practice
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust/Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust (Psychiatric Liaison Service)
Private Practice
Phoenix Mental Health Services
Accreditation
- Approved clinician status for the purposes of section 145(1)(including approval under section 12(2)) of the Mental Health Act 1983
- Cardiff University accredited Expert Witness (Civil and Family)
- Medico-legal Expert Witness Certificate (Family) from City University and Inns of Court School of Law
Looking for mental health treatment?
Through our sister company, Phoenix Mental Health Services, we offer access to high-quality psychiatric care across South Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire.
Dr Danny Allen is a life fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and a member of the other organisations below
