Have you been discharged from a mental health hospital in the last five years? You can help improve the experience for everyone leaving hospital and returning back into their community. Take the survey now > smartsurvey.co.uk/s/VQ30F/

Great to hear that our paper on mental health inpatients and staff members' suggestions for reducing restraint is a Wiley #TopCitedArticle and as a result is free for everyone to access until 1st March: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… Anglia Ruskin FHEMS Research at CPFT @lorna_rouse Sarah Rae

Great to meet Ash & OCD Action at the #OCD session CPFT this week, linking researchers with expert teachers. Thanks Ash🌟for sharing your insights & advice on film - watch this space! So much to learn from people with lived experience, to improve care & treatment.

We’re looking for three trustees to help set our strategic direction and make sure we’re having the greatest possible impact. Current trustee Sarah Rae shares her experience and explains why you should consider applying for this exciting opportunity > bit.ly/30M3Sdz

Why should you engage patient groups into your work? What’s the best way to do so? At what stage should you get patients involved with your work? Understand the theory and learn from real life case studies in our next innovator masterclass on 27 January: events.eahsn.org/InsightstoImpa…

YES! Sarah Rae you are so inspiring and deserve this funding for a brilliant hardwon Coproduced project - @RDS_EoE privelidged to support your journey from initial idea & see you engage and build such a high class research team. Congratulations Minds Study team 🎉xx

Are you an academic, clinical leader or expert by experience working in mental health? Don't miss these opportunities to help lead the #implementation of #mentalhealth interventions in England with the #MHIN NIHR ARC South London NIHR ARC East of England Apply by 3 March 2022👉arc-sl.nihr.ac.uk/news-insights/…

Sarah Rae story is truly inspiring & gives insight to the benefits and challenges of #publicledresearch & how we can better support #inclusiveresearch NIHR Involvement Meerat Kaur Zoe (she/her) Jeremy Taylor National Institute for Health and Care Research NSFT Research @NIHR_RDS @RDS_EoE NIHR ARC East of England #timetocelebrate

Excited to be out and on my way to Cambridge for our first meeting with NSFT Research NIHR Involvement NIHR ARC East of England MINDS study lived experience advisory group! Looking forward to seeing colleagues f2f Sarah Rae

Today is International Clinical Trials Day #ICTD2022 listen to Sarah Rae's vlog about our new co-produced and co-lead study MINDS here: nsft.nhs.uk/research-news. Sarah is a true #trialblazer of research. National Institute for Health and Care Research @NIHRCRNeoe NSFT mental health University of Hertfordshire Julia Jones

There's a new episode of the Mental Health and You podcast out now! This week we're joined by Dr Wilson and Sarah from the MINDS Study, who will discuss how they met & how the MINDS Study came about. You can access the podcast here orlo.uk/lQ15J 🎧

Some of our team were guest speakers at the Patient Safety Congress & Awards this week. They discussed the MINDS study on improving discharge from inpatient wards. To find out more about MINDS or research in general follow the link nsft.nhs.uk/research NSFT mental health @LGruenwald3 @SarahRae

A woman who twice suffered traumatic discharges from mental health facilities is heading up a £1m research project to improve the experience for others. edp24.co.uk/news/health/sa…

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‘England’s mental health care lacks money, yes – but it also lacks compassion’. New article from me for The Guardian emphasising the paradigm shift we need is as much about ideology as funding. Can we seize the moment? Can we afford not to? #IatrogenicHarm theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

📣Congratulations to our #BRACE PPI co-lead,Tina Coldham Tina Coldham BEM, who has been honoured with a Medal of the Order of the British Empire (BEM) in the King's New Year's Honours list. 🥳 Details at: birmingham.ac.uk/news/2024/tina…

Our researchers are collaborating with #LivedExperience expert Sarah Rae on the MINDS study to improve people’s experiences following discharges from #MentalHealth hospitals. For #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek, they shared how this project developed: ➡️ bit.ly/3V4tEa8

Many of the tools & methods we use for innovation are designed for "developmental" innovation; incremental improvement to existing products & services. The gap between where we are now & where we need to be is so big that we need much more "radical" innovation. This kind of

Why do we involve people with lived experience of SMI in our research? Meet Dr Annabel Walsh, co-leading an MHP project championing the voices of people with lived experience of severe mental illness. #worldmentalhealthday #WMHD #WMHD24 The McPin Foundation UK Research and Innovation Medical Research Council

I’m honoured to have lectured at the School of Medicine at Cambridge University about the psychological effects of the traumatic events in my homeland. Thank you Professor @PaulWilkinson52 for providing me with a platform. The high table dinner at Emmanuel College was AMAZING!