I have heard of mental health nursing students being told “you should have done psychology” when they show a psychological curiosity about patients. No. Good mental health nurses will always consider histories, contexts, experiences and meanings which lead to distress.

We’ve completed one of the world’s largest school-based #MentalHealth trials. Read the results from Education for Wellbeing and find out how schools can build students’ mental health and wellbeing:orlo.uk/Dj8lw UCL Brain Sciences

🚨 Publication alert Really thrilled to say that I've a paper out on 'The traumas of hostile voice-hearing experiences in the context of acute psychiatric admissions: a lived experience testimony' researchgate.net/publication/39…

Often forgotten, a reminder of Mental Health Nurses on #InternationalNursesDay. Unique issues mean unique education is needed. A creeping genericism and adultification of education will not improve the quality of care. It will get worse. #MHDeservesBetter youtu.be/iBblQygAizs

Do antipsychotics prevent suicide in depression? Not in this cohort study of 79,898, which compared them to patients with similar levels of treatment resistance but on antidepressants (but not randomized). Antipsychotics were linked to higher mortality rate (28%).

We are asking clinicians working in #mentalhealth care to take part in a survey examining the impact of patient suicide on well-being & clinical practice. If you've experienced the death of a patient by suicide & would like to take part see here buff.ly/lZlYsnc

Risk of relapse during tapering of antipsychotic medication after a first psychotic episode: association with D2 receptor affinity but not with tapering speed Gangadin et al. World Psychiatry Open access 🔓 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wp…

Great to see our peer reviewed paper on the #Retention of #Nurses in #GeneralPractice published. Some of the experiences of nurses are shocking and upsetting. Link to paper in reply. Plesase read and share. Losing skilled and experienced #GPNs will significantly negatively

Are some cases of psychosis caused by a specific problem with the immune system? PPiP2 aims to investigate this by testing people's blood sample for specific antibodies. To find out more about this study, please see the link tinyurl.com/m4y4x2bk #ICTD25 #bepartofresearch

SloMo is a digitally supported talking therapy designed to help people who have worries about harm from others. It works by helping people slow down fast thinking habits that can contribute to worries📱 🫧 👉 tinyurl.com/298kxb28 #ICTD25 #bepartofresearch

This is mental. Did you know each year between 39 and 57 million pheasants and 8.1 to 13 million partridges are released into the UK countryside to be shot.

Our paper was just published in The Lancet Psychiatry. 🧵1/11

A new systematic review looks at the experiences of unpaid black carers of people with psychosis. #CarersWeek It highlights challenges at individual, community, and societal levels such as stigma and difficulty accessing mental health services: archpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

NHS nursing pay has been eroded to the point where starting salaries are £8,000 behind where they would be if they had kept pace with inflation, new research suggests. rcni.com/nursing-standa…

The more people who feel empowered and equipped to talk about suicide, the greater the opportunity for potentially life-saving conversations. Our FREE online #SuicideAwareness training courses could help empower you. You'll get a certificate on completion and hopefully learn

Autistic people are at a higher risk of suicide than non-autistic people. Find out more about autism and suicide risk and how you could help. Take the FREE online Autism and Suicide Awareness Training 👇 zerosuicidealliance.com/suicide-autism…

Today my paper Scapegoating in Healthcare: A Primitive Response to Tragedy was published open access... I feel some anxiety in publishing it...as though, as with my NHS paper, I am provoking the primitive god of healthcare...I felt compelled to write it after witnessing, over

Violence against NHS staff now around 100,000 times a year. I re-read an old, 2015 blog recently where I'd mentioned around 67,000 assaults each year - and worth remembering c67-70% of those attacks are in the MH sector of the NHS. theguardian.com/society/2026/j…

This is an emerging problem - RCRP coming up (and being used by police forces) in circumstances where it is just not relevant and never would be. Remember: the 'RCRP threshold' for police involvement is documented in the National Partnership Agreement (Jun '23, ironically). 2/

The NHS recently cut the % of overall funding allocated to mental health as we're about to raise the threshold for MHA admission and just as the police insist on pulling back from MH demands. You might ask yourself what could possibly go wrong?! #NottinghamInquiry