Stephen Pilling

Professor Steve Pilling is the Director of the National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health (NCCMH) which produces the NICE mental health guidelines.  He is also the Director of the Centre for Outcomes Research and Effectiveness and Head of the Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology at University College London.  His research interests include: 1) Health services research, including trials of complex interventions such as crisis intervention teams and implementation studies of health service policy initiatives; 2) Psychological treatment, in particular treatments for depression and the competences required to deliver effective interventions for all psychological treatments and disorders; 3) Systematic reviews in mental health and their use in clinical guidelines; 4) Clinical guideline development and implementation in mental health.