My friend Margaret Rich, who has died aged 89, came to the UK from New Zealand to be a psychiatrist, and worked for most of her career at two London hospitals, St Bartholomew’s in Smithfield and the German hospital in Hackney.
She was a gifted general psychiatrist who was interested in a psychotherapeutic approach to mental health and was dedicated to community psychiatry. Aside from her work in hospitals, for many years she volunteered with the Samaritans, as well as various charities supporting homeless people.
