Dr Jane Ewbank
Associate
Jane has worked as an NHS Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist since 2002 across medium and low secure hospital settings, as well as with a community forensic team. As part of a multidisciplinary team, her work involves assessing and treating mentally disordered offenders as well as supporting non-forensic colleagues with risk assessments. This has involved working with patients who have committed serious violent and sexual offences, including homicides, some of whom are graduates from the high-secure hospital system, others being assessed and diverted from police custody or prison. She has extensive experience working with Ministry of Justice restricted patients in secure inpatient settings and following their discharge into the community.
Jane has been the MAPPA lead for her Mental Health Trust, working closely with police, probation and other agencies managing high-risk offenders in the community. She has significant experience with patients detained under the Mental Health Act, under civil and forensic sections, and has provided reports for court within her NHS practice and as an independent medicolegal advisor for solicitors and the Crown Prosecution Service. Her medicolegal assessments have covered issues including diminished responsibility, insanity and dangerousness and have involved making sentencing recommendations to courts, including giving oral evidence.
Building on her forensic experience, Jane has undertaken work for the Prison Service doing psychiatric assessments and reports for parole board hearings on life sentenced and IPP prisoners where there are significant mental health issues contributing to release decisions. She has been commissioned by HM Coroner to provide psychiatric reports to assist the coroner in cases of deaths in Broadmoor High Secure Hospital and provided oral evidence to the coroner’s hearings.