Welcome to episode 57 [originally broadcast on Wednesday 21 July 2021] of #mhTV​​​​​​​​​​​​​. This week Nicky Lambert and Dave Munday spoke with guest Heather Henry about public health.

Queen's Nurse Heather is an entrepreneur, poet, social innovator and health policy influencer. Heather practises a social model of public health, inventing and co-producing solutions with local people. Based on her own severe asthma as a child, her latest innovation is BreathChamps (@BreathChamps): Where children families and communities learn about breathing in fun ways. In 2018 she won the Sue Pembrey Award for person and community centred care. In 2016 Heather received the Open University Business School Alumnus Award for her 'Outstanding Contribution to Society'.

Some Twitter links to follow are:
NL - https://twitter.com/niadla​​​​​​​​​​​​​
DM - https://twitter.com/davidamunday
HH - https://twitter.com/HeatherHenry4

Credits:
Presenter: Nicky Lambert & Dave Munday
Guest: Heather Henry
Theme music: Tony Gillam
Production & Editing: Dave Munday

#mhTV episode 57 - Public health

Welcome to episode 154 [originally broadcast on Wednesday 6 March 2024] of #mhTV​​​​​​​​. This week Nicky Lambert and David Munday spoke with guest Dr Luca Bernardi to talk about Politics, Mental Health and Covid.

LB - Dr Luca Bernardi is a Senior Lecturer in Politics at the Department of Politics at the University of Liverpool. Luca’s research intersects political behaviour and political psychology. More recently, Luca has been studying how mental health problems may influence the way people engage in politics, the effects of political stressors on mental health, and the impact Covid-19 stressors on mental health and political engagement. 

Some X links to follow are:
VG - www.x.com/VanessaRNMH
NL - www.x.com/niadla​​​​​​​​
DM - www.x.com/davidamunday
LB - www.x.com/bernardi_L

Credits:
#mhTV Presenters: Vanessa Gilmartin, Nicky Lambert & David Munday
Guests: Dr Luca Bernardi
Theme music: Tony Gillam
Production & Editing: David Munday

#mhTV episode 154 - Politics, Mental Health and Covid

Welcome to episode 155 [originally broadcast on Monday 11 March 2024] of #mhTV​​​​​​​​. On this special edition of #mhTV in advance of NHS England's event 'Inspiring the Future: Mental Health Leadership Symposium', we sat down with Andrea Sutcliffe CBE (Chief Executive and Registrar at the Nursing & Midwifery Council) and Dr Emma Wadey (Head of Mental Health Nursing at NHS England)

Some X links to follow are:
VG - www.x.com/VanessaRNMH
NL - www.x.com/niadla​​​​​​​​
DM - www.x.com/davidamunday
AS - www.x.com/Crouchendtiger7
EW - www.x.com/NursingEmma

Credits:
#mhTV Presenters: Vanessa Gilmartin, Nicky Lambert & David Munday
Guests: Andrea Sutcliffe CBE & Dr Emma Wadey
Theme music: Tony Gillam
Production & Editing: David Munday

#mhTV episode 155 - A special edition evening with Andrea Sutcliffe CBE and Dr Emma Wadey

Welcome to episode 156 [originally broadcast on Wednesday 13 March 2024] of #mhTV​​​​​​​​. This week Nicky Lambert and Vanessa Gilmartin spoke with guests Georgina Adams and Debbie Frances about Stronger Together: An evaluation of a quality improvement initiative to reduce suicide risk and improve patient safety through carer collaboration.

GA - I am Georgina Adams and I have worked for the last year as a Clinical Lead in the Safe from Suicide team (Suicide prevention) with Devon Partnership Trust . The focus of my work is building and improving family and carer involvement as this is so important for patient safety, carer well being and suicide prevention. In this role I have been lucky enough to have joined the co production team creating Stronger Together training, which is I first met and started working with Debbie. We now co deliver Stronger Together to carers and practitioners. I qualified as a social worker in 1993 and worked in frontline child protection work until I joined DPT in 2020 as the lead social worker at a forensic psychiatric hospital before I joined the Safe from Suicide team. Working with families and carers has always been important to me and is at the heart of my values and ethics.

DF - I am a former parent carer for a young adult with complex mental health issues. As a consequence of my experiences of mental health services over many years, I am passionate about working to improve the quality and safety of services available to those in need of support, and changing the way in which services engage with carers and families. I have a particular interest in suicide prevention, and provide lived experience input into my local NHS mental health trust’s suicide prevention work. This has included the co-design and delivery of the ‘Stronger Together’ training programme, which aims to inform, support and empower carers of those affected by suicidal behaviours. I am Co-Chair of the Trust’s Carer Strategy Implementation Group, and was involved in co-producing their new carer strategy. 
I have broad-ranging experience within the mental health and voluntary sectors, most recently as a freelance Mental Health Trainer and Lived Experience Carer Consultant, specialising in carer support, and co-production and collaborative working within mental health services. I am a guest tutor at Exeter and Reading Universities. 
In 2018, I was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to research initiatives that prevent the escalation and recurrence of mental illness in young people, leading to me travel to Australia and Finland in 2019 and 2020 respectively. In July 2023, I completed a Masters in Mental Health Recovery & Social Inclusion at the University of Hertfordshire, with Distinction.

Some X links to follow are:
VG - www.x.com/VanessaRNMH
NL - www.x.com/niadla​​​​​​​​
DM - www.x.com/davidamunday
GA - www.x.com/georgewaw1967
DF - www.x.com/deb_frances

Credits:
#mhTV Presenters: Vanessa Gilmartin, Nicky Lambert & David Munday
Guests: Georgina Adams and Debbie Frances
Theme music: Tony Gillam
Production & Editing: David Munday

#mhTV episode 156 - Stronger Together

Welcome to episode 157 [originally broadcast on Wednesday 21 March 2024] of #mhTV​​​​​​​​. This week Nicky Lambert and David Munday spoke with guest Dr Chelcie Jewitt about Surviving in Scrubs an organisation started by two doctors on a mission to raise awareness about sexism and sexual assault in healthcare.

You can join in the discussion by commenting on the Facebook Live chat or by tweeting and including the hashtag #mhTV.

CJ - Chelcie is an Emergency Medicine trainee, interested in health inequalities, particularly those faced by women. Throughout her training she has been a victim of, and witness to, multiple incidences of sexism and misogyny. This prompted her to found the Sexism in Medicine project, which has led to the hard-hitting report published with the BMA in August 2021. She campaigns for equality in the workplace, speaking at national and international conferences, collaborating with multiple organisations in order to tackle this issue. This latest campaign, focuses of giving victims of workplace misogyny a voice, bringing about change through the power of their testimony.

Some links to follow:
Surviving In Scrubs Website - https://www.survivinginscrubs.co.uk
Surviving In Scrubs Surviving Healthcare Report - https://www.survivinginscrubs.co.uk/surviving-healthcare-report/

Some X links to follow are:
VG - https://www.x.com/VanessaRNMH
NL - https://www.x.com/niadla​​​​​​​​
DM - https://www.x.com/davidamunday
CJ - https://www.x.com/ByChelcie
Surviving In Scrubs - https://www.x.com/scrubsurvivors

Credits:
#mhTV Presenters: Vanessa Gilmartin, Nicky Lambert & David Munday
Guests: Georgina Adams and Debbie Frances
Theme music: Tony Gillam
Production & Editing: David Munday

#mhTV episode 157 - Surviving in Scrubs

The Northern Mental Health Nursing Qualitative Research Forum meets three times a year to connect Mental Health Nurse researchers interested in, and conducting, qualitative research, methodologies and innovations. If you wish to be added to the mailing list, please contact james.turner@shu.ac.uk.
The following session was recorded at their fourth event on Friday 17 November 2023. With thanks to Prof Karen Wright and Dr James Turner for organising the event and the invitation to support with recording the sessions.

Title: Back to the Future: How can Enrolled Nurses (Mental Health) experience of education and training inform nurse associate and other apprenticeship programmes

Abstract: The return to the two-year programme of Nursing education draws comparisons to the Enrolled Nursing route which was phased out in the 1990s. The reasons for the Enrolled Nurses introduction were very similar to the Nursing Associate - a chronic lack of registered nurses and subsequent care gap in meeting patient need. Thus, looking back to the education and training experiences of Enrolled Nurses who also experienced a two-year apprenticeship programme and work-based learning appears to be timely. Using a historical qualitative methodology has potential to provide insights toward informing the future development of the two-year programme Trainee Nursing Associate route and beyond. The aim of the proposed research study is to explore Enrolled Nurses' experiences of education and training to inform the Nursing Associate and other relevant apprenticeship programmes.

#mhTV episode 158 - Emma Shiel & Dr Steve Hemingway at #NorQual

Thea Joshi is joined by Frederico Cardoso, the Centre's Senior Economist, to hear about a major new report calculating the economic and social costs of mental ill health. While a £ sign is an imperfect measure of the toll that mental health problems can take on people's lives, this economic analysis has broken new ground in assessing the scale of the problem and the consequences for our economy and society of failing to act. Frederico breaks down and contextualises the figures in the new report and shares some of the solutions that would support better mental health and reduce costs in tandem.

If you appreciated this episode, we'd love your support to keep our work going - please donate today: www.centreformentalhealth.org.uk/donate

Music by scottholmesmusic.com

Frederico Cardoso: The economic and social costs of mental ill health

Has mental health culture gone too far? Thea Joshi welcomes Andy Bell to unpack recent comments from government ministers and proposed plans to reduce access to benefits for people taking time off work for their mental health. They discuss what's driving this backlash, and explore where we're actually at on our journey from mental health awareness to mental health literacy.

If you appreciated this episode, we'd love your support to keep our work going - please donate today: www.centreformentalhealth.org.uk/donate

Music by scottholmesmusic.com

Andy Bell: What's driving the backlash against mental health awareness?

Welcome to episode 159 [originally broadcast on Wednesday 10 April 2024] of #mhTV​​​​​​​​. This week Nicky Lambert and David Munday spoke with guest Auzewell Chitewell about Using quality improvement in practice.

AC - Auzewell "Auz" Chitewe is an experienced healthcare leader, passionate about Quality Improvement and transformational change. Responsible for delivering the quality improvement plan at East London NHS Foundation Trust (ELFT) - a mental health, community health and primary care provider rated 'outstanding' by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). Also an Improvement Advisor and faculty on the application of quality improvement methods with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI).
Auz trained as a nurse and is an Improvement Advisor working as Associate Director for Quality Improvement at ELFT. 
In addition to his support of frontline improvement projects, Auz is experienced in developing and delivering system-wide work programmes, collaboratives and learning systems. Some of his work has centered on improvement to reduce bed occupancy, improve access to services, joy in work, and improving population health using the Triple Aim framework (patient experience, population health outcomes and value for money).
He has experience providing strategic and operational leadership in organisations looking to building a culture of continuous quality improvement that involves everyone. He is a recipient of the NHS Leadership Academy Award in Senior Healthcare Leadership and is a senior member of faculty for coaching and teaching on improvement science across professional, communities and organisational boundaries. 
His leisure interests include shooting 360º photography.

Some X links to follow are:
VG - https://www.x.com/VanessaRNMH
NL - https://www.x.com/niadla​​​​​​​​
DM - https://www.x.com/davidamunday
AC - https://www.x.com/auzewell

Credits:
#mhTV Presenters: Vanessa Gilmartin, Nicky Lambert & David Munday
Guest: Auzewell Chitewell
Theme music: Tony Gillam
Production & Editing: David Munday

#mhTV episode 159 - Using quality improvement in practice

Welcome to episode 160 [originally broadcast on Wednesday 24 April 2024] of #mhTV​​​​​​​​. This week Nicky Lambert and Vanessa Gilmartin were joined by guests Jane Fisher and Lucy Judge to talk about How we see nurses matters: Angels, sexpots or professionals.

JF - Jane Fisher is a mental health nurse lecturer and service user. Jane has worked across a variety of clinical settings with over fifteen years front line NHS nursing experience. After developing her own mental illness, Jane's passion for mental health nursing and desire to break down the stigma surrounding mental illness became a lifelong mission. Jane entered the field of mental health nurse academia to bridge the gap between personal experiences and professional expertise. Her unique perspective has enriched her teaching and clinical practice in profound ways. As a mental health nurse lecturer, Jane has a deep-seated passion for nurturing the next generation of mental health nurses. Her teaching style is not limited to textbooks and theory; it encompasses the lived experiences that have shaped her understanding of mental health. Jane is an internationally published mental health academic and has also authored a children's book exploring maternal mental health. Jane is a living testament to the transformative power of embracing one's past and channelling it into a passion for education, advocacy, and writing. Her academic biography reflects her unwavering commitment to the field of mental health nursing and her dedication to breaking down barriers and stigma surrounding mental illness.

LJ - Lucy Abigail Judge (BSc & BA Hons) is a recently qualified Mental Health Nurse who is a practitioner in the Urgent Care Pathway. Lucy has experience working on inpatient units, particularly acute wards and also in the community within urgent care. Lucy has been published in the British Journal of Mental Health Nursing and is in the process of another publication discussing the prospective use of animal therapy on acute wards.

Some X links to follow are:
VG - https://www.x.com/VanessaRNMH
NL - https://www.x.com/niadla​​​​​​​​
DM - https://www.x.com/davidamunday
JF - https://www.x.com/Jane_Fisher2

Credits:
#mhTV Presenters: Vanessa Gilmartin, Nicky Lambert & David Munday
Guest: Jane Fisher and Lucy Judge
Theme music: Tony Gillam
Production & Editing: David Munday

#mhTV episode 160  - How we see nurses matters: Angels, sexpots or professionals

#MHpod is a podcast from the Mental Health Nurses Association, a professional association in Unite the union. We hope our podcasts will be of interest to everyone that's interested in mental health. 

Get in touch to share your thoughts and suggestions: On Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/Unite_MHNA or via email: mhna@unitetheunion.org.

Credits - Theme music: Tony Gillam / Editing: Dave Munday / #MHpod logo typeface: Gilbert colour (https://www.typewithpride.com)

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