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This is exceptional. For me, our meetings’s most critical meeting. Inequalities in physical health and how digital inequality in forensic mental health settings contributes. Dr Jonathan Bickford - you are a brilliant speaker and everyone in FMH should see this. The Faculty of Forensic Psychiatry

This year's FRN Summer Symposium confirmed for Friday 19th July 1-5pm The Institute of Mental Health. This year we make time to explore some important ethical questions in some depth, including with experts from Durham and Oxford Universities. Details in flyer and here: shorturl.at/oyrwT

There’s still time to support your patients to vote! Patients detained under s.35, s.36 or s.48 (as well as civil sections in secure hospitals) have voting rights! rcpsych.ac.uk/improving-care…

Our viewpoint piece on the future of forensic mental health research is now available in Lancet Psychiatry. Open access for 50 days through link here (1/2) authors.elsevier.com/a/1jKni7tf1d8r…

Come and join us! New Clinical Lecturer post...great chance to become a clinical academic by pursuing an MD(Res), joining our MSc education team and working with SLaM in an inpatient forensic setting

Forensic Research Nottingham making space in their summer symposium for consideration of ethical and philosophical issues in forensic mental health - both in the clinic and the courtroom.

Excited to kick off our NIHR-funded work to look at collaboration in risk assessment/mgmt planning in forensic services in England, co-leading w/Seena Fazel Oxford Psychiatry & working w/colleagues Nottinghamshire Healthcare Uni of Nottingham #WeAreUoN The University of Manchester and Rethink Mental Illness institutemh.org.uk/news/news/1867…

Our recent paper was published this weekend in PLOS Medicine. We report that severe violent victimisation requiring medical care is a strong risk factor for subsequent psychiatric disorders, suicidal behaviours and premature mortality.

Research assistant post available re social care in prisons, working with Dr Louise Robinson Dr Katrina Forsyth (Research Fellow UoM) Job Ref BMH-027203 The University of Manchester - Job Information | Apply for Research Assistant - Empowered Together (coordinated social care in prison)

Our FRN The Institute of Mental Health page has been updated with information about active research projects. Good opportunities for Nottinghamshire Healthcare staff to get involved here, including through Wellcome Doctoral Training Programme- contact me or Danny Whiting Link: shorturl.at/cxbrt

Pretty fascinating programme for this conference in March on legacy of Emil Kraepelin. Also always great to see a healthy discount for trainees, for History of Psychiatry Special Interest Group members (& for those attending both days)

Findings from our pilot prospective cohort study on prison environment factors and self-harm are in print. A step towards good evidence in an important area, though limitations here include poss. of reverse causality. Work funded by NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) 🙏

Almost all high income countries have research examining prevalence of mental illness in prisons. For low/middle income countries, patchy coverage but consistently high rates psychosis, which are at least 4x higher than community surveys. Open access: thelancet.com/journals/lanpu…

What practical use is a violence risk prediction tool in clinical services for psychosis? Our new study in BJPsych Journals examines this for the OxMIV tool, w/wider learning for key issue of bridging the gap to real-world usefulness for prediction tools doi.org/10.1192/bjp.20… (OA)

Please share! Registration deadline for the brilliant Suicide & Self-harm Early & Mid-Career Researchers' Forum is fast approaching: Closing date: 9th May 🔗suicideresearch.info/2024/10/09/9th… #EMCRF2025

Pleased to see that our editorial (w/ Seena Fazel) on the benefits of using observational data to understand the role of gabapentanoids in self-harm risk was published today in the The BMJ. Link below.

.Tom Stephenson and I blogged for The Mental Elf on this rare beast of a randomised trial for a psychological intervention in an offender population: mentalisation-based therapy for ASPD, for men on community probation nationalelfservice.net/mental-health/…

Enjoying time at the Early-/Mid-Career Researcher Forum in suicide & self-harm run by the Suicidal Behaviour Research Lab, Glasgow #EMCRF25