About
Dr Bosky Nair aims to provide high quality service to patients, tailored to their individual needs. She has extensive experience of looking after patients with depression, anxiety disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), perinatal mental illness, bipolar disorder, psychosis and personality disorders.
She prioritises patient safety and quality improvement, and has led several award-winning quality improvement initiatives. She is actively involved in training junior doctors, medical students, and colleagues within the NHS and social care organisations, and has received extremely positive feedback on her interest in teaching and training. She has also been an associate lecturer for Kent & Medway Medical School (KMMS) and supervised medical students within KMMS and Kings College London. She has won employee recognition awards from Oxleas NHS Trust and Kent & Medway NHS Trust.
She strongly advocates for increasing awareness of mental health issues, reducing stigma and empowering patients and their families. In her role advocating for women’s mental health, she has appeared on GB news, KMFM and KMTV and presented at various national and international conferences. She has published in peer-reviewed journals and has also written several articles in print media and editorials.
Some of the patient feedback she has received includes:
“Dr Nair has been fantastic at listening to my needs, adjusting my medication and figuring out what was wrong with me; I have clarity now.”
“Dr Nair’s recent clinic letter has been very helpful. It captured everything I discussed in the meeting and was surprised by how quickly it has been sent to me.”
“I’ve always received excellent care and support. Always been supportive when needed.”
“I never felt rushed when answering questions. For the first time, I felt like someone listened.”
“Very approachable and open communication at all times.”
“I always felt involved in my care plan.”
“I cannot fault the care I have received; it has played a key role in my recovery and I am very thankful.”
Position at Priory
Dr Nair joined Priory Wellbeing Centre Canterbury in October 2023 as a visiting consultant psychiatrist.
She also works as a substantive consultant psychiatrist for the Perinatal Mental Health Community Service in Kent & Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust. She has clinical expertise spanning more than 7 years as a consultant in general adult psychiatry and maternal mental health.
She is the regional specialty representative for perinatal in Kent, Surrey & Sussex, and quality improvement lead for the South Eastern Division of Royal College of Psychiatrists.
Training
Dr Nair completed MBBS from the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, India in 2004. She undertook psychiatry training with South West London & St George’s Trust and South London & Maudsley training scheme, achieving her membership of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (MRCPsych) in 2011. She obtained her Completion Certificate in Training (CCT) in General Adult Psychiatry in 2015.
Her interest in medical leadership led to the successful completion of Mary Seacole Programme offered by the NHS leadership academy and Open University, and she qualified with a Post Graduate Certificate in Healthcare Leadership. She also completed an MSc in Child and Adolescent Mental Health from University College London in 2016. In 2018, she became an approved behavioural activation practitioner and in 2022, she became an accredited practitioner for video interaction guidance (VIG).
Research interests
Dr Nair has research interests in women’s mental health and early intervention in psychosis. She was the clinical lead for PATH, an Interreg funded European project on perinatal mental health. She was also the chief investigator for several PATH studies as well as principal investigator (PI) for National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) portfolio studies. She was the PI for a multicentric randomised controlled trial (RCT) examining the use of a novel antidepressant in postpartum depression. She led a research project on social communication disorders in patients with psychotic illness for her MSc dissertation.
Dr Nair won the KMPT Achievement in Research Award in 2020 for her contributions towards research and evidence-based practice.
Links to clinical articles/research papers:
- Nair, B., Oh, A., Alsahaf, M., & Etteh, U. (2022). Audit on COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake and Hesitancy Amongst Pregnant or Postnatal Patients Under the Care of a Perinatal Mental Health Community Team. BJPsych Open. 8. S168-S168. 10.1192/bjo.2022.471. Audit on COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake and Hesitancy Amongst Pregnant or Postnatal Patients Under the Care of a Perinatal Mental Health Community Team | BJPsych Open | Cambridge Core
- Crook, H., & Duffy, A., Nair, B., & Waters, R. (2022). Effectiveness of New Maternal Mental Health Service ‘Thrive’ in the Treatment of PTSD Symptoms Arising From Birth Trauma and Perinatal Loss. BJPsych Open. 8. S132-S132. 10.1192/bjo.2022.386. Effectiveness of New Maternal Mental Health Service ‘Thrive’ in the Treatment of PTSD Symptoms Arising From Birth Trauma and Perinatal Loss - Abstract - Europe PMC
- Nair, B. Editorial- VROEG PATH project special edition, (2022) https://www.vakbladvroeg.nl/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/2022_Vakblad-Vroeg_PATH_ENG_low.pdf
- Nair, B. New project to support parents experiencing perinatal mental illnesses, GPN journal, March 2022 Journal of General Practice Nursing (GPN) - Article: New project to support parents experiencing perinatal mental illnesses - Journal of General Practice Nursing (journalofpracticenursing.co.uk)
- Towobola, A., Towobola, B., Nair, B., & Makwana, A. (2021). The ethics and management of cannabis use in pregnancy following decriminalisation and licensing for medical use: Narrative review. BJPsych Bulletin, 1-10. doi:10.1192/bjb.2021.102 The ethics and management of cannabis use in pregnancy following decriminalisation and licensing for medical use: narrative review - PMC (nih.gov)
- Burgess, R., Chaplin, R., Nair, B., Shah, A. Quality Improvement module 2- clinical audit in mental health practice- June 2020, RCPsych CPD online
- Nair, B., MacCabe J H. Making clozapine safer: current perspectives on improving its tolerability. Future Neurology 2014, 9:313-322. Making clozapine safer: current perspectives on improving its tolerability | Future Neurology (futuremedicine.com)
- MSc dissertation 2016- Autistic traits in patients diagnosed with psychotic illness.
Languages
- English
- Hindi