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Vivas, research projects and the Welsh Government on the Francis Report
There’s plenty going on in the continuing baking sun this week. I was pleased to spend yesterday at Sheffield University (where I was once a student) examining, and recommending awarding, a doctorate...
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World Mental Health Day 2013
Today is World Mental Health Day. Here’s a snip from the WHO: Every year on 10th of October, The World Health Organization joins in celebrating the World Mental Health Day. The day is celebrated at the...
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World Mental Health Day 2013 [update]
Now that I have learned how to embed YouTube videos into this blog (it isn’t difficult, really) I can update this morning’s post by adding a clip of Welsh Government Minister for Health and Social...
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Taking Measure
Here in Wales we have the Mental Health Measure. This is a piece of legislation passed in 2010 and implemented in phases in 2012, and which is intended to improve the quality and timeliness of mental...
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Spring election, and the politics of mental health
It hasn’t always been like this, but mental health is something which politicians now talk about. In the run-up to next week’s general election mental health has even featured in public appeals to...
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Mental Health Nurse Academics UK meets in Nottingham
I was unable to make Thursday evening’s Skellern Lecture and Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing Lifetime Achievement event hosted by Patrick Callaghan at Nottingham University. My...
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Vivas, research projects and the Welsh Government on the Francis Report
There’s plenty going on in the continuing baking sun this week. I was pleased to spend yesterday at Sheffield University (where I was once a student) examining, and recommending awarding, a doctorate...
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Safe staffing (again)
Just over a year ago I posted a short piece on this site on safe staffing, particularly noting the work of Shaun Lintern and John Baker in alerting people to the importance of this in the mental health...
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