this is free to download now, the launch programmed for 21st September. more to follow

Told 'not to kiss' his partner as it wouldn't be 'a safe thing to do'. Ted's partner was abused in a care home because of his sexuality - as we reveal a report finding hundreds of cases of elderly people experiencing homophobic or transphobic attacks in care settings

Mad Studies meeting today 5pm here book now pinkskythinking.com/service-page/m…

CALL TO ACTION at #MadStudies tonight! #EndFundingAboutUsWithoutUs. We lead, 'allies' follow. Why do funders keep giving directly to non Lived-Experience led organisations? How do we change this? Come & be part of the conversation, change, plans, action. pinkskythinking.com/so/7fOcoGP8y?l…

Asylum Magazine National Survivor User Network @JamesScurryUK @DrRJChapman Mick McKeown Dr Rebecca Fish Dr Sonia Soans H.Spandler 🐾🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Peter Beresford Cristian Montenegro 🍉 Dr Jay Watts Tina Coldham BEM Dr Sarah Carr Janine Booth Alison 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛ 🐈 @TheTealTigerUK Jacqui Lovell Sarah Knowles Isn’t Here Anna Rebowska Dr Lisa Morriss

New paper put together by @DrEppie_Rose with whole team trying to be truthful about how we worked together on our NIHR School for Social Care Research funded research. Genuinely improved by great reviewer comments. NIHR Involvement researchinvolvement.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Paper includes: inaccessibility of ethics panels; what happens when academic researchers and self-advocate researchers disagree - how does power work; problems with the "fund and forget" model of partnership working (drawing on Éidín Ní Shé ) Might you RT NIHR Involvement please?

How do people experience avoidable harm in mental health social care? nationalelfservice.net/?p=175617 Hey The Social Care Elf - this is a good one for you! 👍🏽

Big thanks to Andie Ashdown for a great The Mental Elf blog on our avoidable harm in mental health social care scoping review paper 😊 Tina Coldham BEM Georgie Hudson

Today Andie Ashdown summarises a scoping review led by Sarah Carr Dr Sarah Carr on service users’ experiences of social and psychological avoidable harm in mental health social care in England nationalelfservice.net/?p=175617 #AvoidableHarm #MentalHealth #SocialCare

Avoidable harm, such as unjustified discharge from social care services, appears to be a widespread experience across service users. Recent review by Dr Sarah Carr and colleagues. Important reading for anyone involved in mental health social care: nationalelfservice.net/?p=175617

Social/psychological harm in social care ‣ Poor relationships/communication ‣ Info, involvement, decision-making ‣ Lack of support ‣ Inflexible, bureaucratic systems ‣ Fragmented services & discontinuity ‣ ‘Power over’, discriminatory cultures nationalelfservice.net/?p=175617

Critical Perspectives conference in Cork - a unique mental health conference❤️ Asylum Magazine National Survivor User Network Survivor Researcher Network Nev Jones PhD H.Spandler 🐾🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Dr Sonia Soans @DrRJChapman Mick McKeown @TheTealTigerUK Cristian Montenegro 🍉 Tina Coldham BEM Dr Sarah Carr Jill Hemmington (Dr) eventbrite.co.uk/e/15th-annual-…

An insightful account of the recent #CVNI23 conference by Jill Anderson Asylum Magazine Mad In Ireland MadStudiesNetwork International Mad Studies Journal H.Spandler 🐾🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 AppliedSocialStudies Solidarity is our only hope ✌☮🌹 Mad In America DrKChurch Tina Coldham BEM Dr Sarah Carr Liz Brosnan madzines.org/learning-from-…

Recovery in the Bin NHS England NHS Education for Scotland (NES) @HEIW_NHS Mary Nettle Akiko Hart Mad In America Ben Rogers @NHS_JohnClark Rai Waddingham Rachel Niki Webb CompassionateMH Dr Anne Cooke Mick McKeown @MMHPuk National Survivor User Network Dr Sarah Carr Social Power and Mental Health Survivor Researcher Network Tamar, Warrior LXP ✊🏽🏹🧚‍♀️👸🏽🧙‍♀️🧜‍♀️🧞‍♀️⚔️ Thank you Recovery in the Bin direct link is redfame.com/journal/index.… Innovative study within i/p mh recovery units suggests patients found FE teacher-facilitated psychosoc. educ. was interesting, enjoyable, sociable, transformative, of decent qual. & for future benefit.

“Thus homosexuals are not a proper beneficial class and I regret that I cannot help you in this matter” #LGBTHM24

Great NHS England Digital Technologies conference today. Fab presentations from Dr Sarah Carr Geoff Brennan Alexis Quinn Unbroken Stop Oxevision . Vital discussions questioning the ethics of current digital tech models in acute care - but WHY are we only addressing these issues now?

Our Mental Health Policy Research Unit paper on the effectiveness, experience & implementation of #peersupport for mental health is out 🚨 Congrats team Sonia Johnson Alan Simpson 💙 karen machin Phoebe Barnett Becky Appleton Dr Sophie Allan (she/her) et al HSPRD IOPPN Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience National Institute for Health and Care Research ⬇️ bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Why do National Institute for Health and Care Research panels think that having a PhD and working in a University invalidate my lived experience? Why doesn't my 'involvement' count? Why am I considered 'professionalised'? I'm still in MH services. Do they understand what a Lived Experience Researcher is?

Attention ⚠️ The Critical Perspectives in Mental Health Conference, 8-9 November, University College Cork, Ireland A unique and FREE conference ❤️ UCC School of Nursing & Midwifery 🌈 AppliedSocialStudies Tina Coldham BEM Dr Sarah Carr Alison 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛ 🐈 Mick McKeown Asylum Magazine Co-Production Collective National Survivor User Network Survivor Researcher Network