Making medicines safer for all of us. Adverse drug events are now the fourth leading cause of death in hospitals. In mental health, for instance, drug-induced problems are the leading cause of death and these deaths happen in community rather than hospital settings.

Graduated from the University of Oxford in 2006 with a PhD in social and medical anthropology. He is now a Reader in social anthropology and mental health at the University of Roehampton. James is also a psychotherapist, who started working for the NHS in 2004. He is the co-founder of the Council for Evidence-based Psychiatry. James is the author of the bestselling book Cracked.

I retired in 2012 and thought I would be spending my time meeting friends for coffee and lunch and travelling the world. Well, a bit of it at least. Then life came to an abrupt halt. I have spent the past two years in bed suffering from protracted benzodiazepine withdrawal syndrome.