A story full of bigotry and ignorance. LEx, peer support and other innovations in workforce, both transform care and support nurse colleagues with the thousands of vacancies there are, by providing direct patient care, which is greatly valued by patients themselves.

People ask me, "What exactly is #empathy?" From now on, my answer will be, "THIS IS!" Watch how this barber shows deep #compassion for the woman who is about to start #chemotherapy and appears devastated with losing her #hair and #Identity . (bravos.barbeariaa on Instagram)

Honoured to co-chair the SY MHLDA Workforce Group.Amazing presentations from @SACMHA1 re: Black Male Barbers Programme; Julie Repper re: #PeerSupport developments; RDaSH NHS FT re:pastoral support; #Carer led Autism training & @helencrimlisk re: #physicianassociates #SystemWorking

Attended a brilliant session today to prepare our team for peer support workers. Thank you ImROC Involvement, Recovery and Wellness Centre Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS FT & also an equally fantastic session about clinical decision making as part of the training that is being developed for people with complex presentations

I've been risk assessed a lot recently. It's not been much fun. I wrote this blog post about "risk aversion" in mental health services, to consider whose risk is actually being assessed and avoided - patients' or professionals'? psychiatryisdrivingmemad.co.uk/post/hello-how…

my salary as a doctor in london working 40h weeks after 9 years of uni at cambridge and a phd #BMADoctorsVoteYes

Great to hear Mike Slade talk about Recovery on BBC Radio 4 on ‘Healing and Recovery’ today. Explaining CHIME (Connected Hope Identity Meaning Empowerment) Highlighting the power of #PeerSupport helping combat stigma ImROC Julie Repper Recovery College

First conference celebrating the value and contribution of our Peer Support Workers, and thx for all you are doing🙏 We need more of you across all our services Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust Melanie Coombes. MBE 💙 Prof Jagtar Singh OBE #recovery #morethanadiagnosis

Very good article on the issue of clinicians experiencing moral distress and loss after pandemic - it’s real, we must acknowledge this and we should be thoughtful about how we build this into NHS process of recovery bmj.com/content/380/bm…

@zoelou2325 Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS FT @GemmaRob1112 Julie Repper It’s great to be involved with this work, it feels as though we are on the verge of something extraordinary particularly if this develops across the ICS at a system level. 👏👏👏

‘Before I became a service user, I would never question the recovery movement, how could one question personal development, fulfilment and hope? Then I became a patient, forced into someone else's concept of recovery. I was recovering if I was compliant’ doi.org/10.12968/bjmh.…

‘The RADAR trial shows how difficult it is to stop antipsychotics once people have been taking them for a while.’ This was a useful study of withdrawal. It didn’t ask, and can’t tell us, whether it would be better not to start the drugs in the first place. madinamerica.com/2023/09/what-t…

What the RADAR Trial Tells Us About Antipsychotic Reduction and Discontinuation by Joanna Moncrieff, MD Although the trial showed that you are more likely to relapse if you stop your antipsychotic medication, it did not show that relapse is inevitable. madinamerica.com/2023/09/what-t…

The judge has given us the go-ahead Suella Braverman: SEE YOU IN COURT #DefendDemocracy 📹 Akiko Hart

Fascinating article. A great read. Thank you to the authors. I do also love a good ending 🙏. Conflict and antagonism within global psychiatry: A discourse analysis of organisational responses to the UN reports on rights‐based approaches in mental health onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…

Here are some of the reasons why pretty much every western leader is so anxious about the terrible events in Israel and Gaza, why their concerns are about both the horrors there and the significant risk of what they call “contagion” to much of the rest of the world

A new study captures the increasing diversity of mental health models that are on offer to help us make sense of our own minds madintheuk.com/2023/10/study-…