Dr. Danny Allen

Dr Allen trained as a doctor at The Middlesex Hospital Medical School, University of London. After 'house jobs' in Kettering, he worked in Reading and Weymouth doing A & E and Orthopaedics before working in Australia as a GP and, later, in New Zealand, doing Medicine and Paediatrics. He trained as a GP in Ealing, Reading and Basingstoke, before training in psychiatry in Basingstoke, Winchester, Gloucester and Bristol. In 2005 he was awarded a masters' degree with commendation in mental health law from Northumbria University.

He worked for over 10 years as a consultant in a community mental health team in High Wycombe and then for nearly 7 years in a Community Acute Service and an Assertive Outreach Team. He also worked in an Immigration Removal Centre doing psychiatry and treating substance misuse and as Medical Director of Applehill (rehabiliation) Hospital. He currently works part time as a psychiatric liaison consultant with Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust in Stoke Mandeville & Wycombe Hospitals . As well as his clinical work, Dr Allen sits on Mental Health Tribunals. His private practice is based in Wooburn Green, near High Wycombe where he works with a group of other mental health professionals including psychiatric nurses and psychologists. He also has a clinic in Golders Green. Increasingly he sees people remotely from all over the UK.

He has a wide range of interests, from psychosis, through resistant depression and anxiety disorders to adult ADHD. Dr Allen also runs a special clinic for doctors. If you would like an appointment please feel free to ring for an informal chat with the friendly staff at Phoenix or look at the website. There is not usually any significant waiting list. If your GP gives you a referral letter, please send it in advance. For details of Dr Allen's charges or other enquiries, please contact Phoenix via the number or e-mail given.