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Send us a Text Message.Kate is the national director for healthcare services across England for Armed Forces serving personnel, veterans and their families; Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARCs); and prisons, immigration removal centres and secure children’s homes and training centres. Her national role is to assure high quality, consistent and sustained services with a strong focus on health inequalities and outcomes for patients and their families.Kate was awarded an OBE in 2009, fo...

Send us a Text Message.Today’s guest is one of the leading voices in Mental Health support in the workplace.Tim Munden, the Global Chief Learning officer at Unilever, has created programmes which aim to inspire people worldwide to look after their health and wellbeing.But it was when he first started developing these programmes, that he realised he had his own demons to tackle.From being injured out of an Army Career before it even started, to having a near death car crash that brought him ye...

Send us a Text Message.Our guest today is Simon Blake OBE. CEO of Mental Health First Aid England.Mental Health First Aid England has one aim - to improve the mental health of the nation. The organisation wants to see 1 in 10 of the population trained in mental health first aid, and for all of us to start considering mental health as being on a par with our physical health.As a gay man who came out during the HIV epidemic, Simon understands the importance of supporting mental health thr...

Send us a Text Message.We may think of them as police profilers who get deep within the psyche of serial killers and sex abusers, but Kerry Daynes says her profession as a Forensic Psychologist is much more than that. She’s worked with some of the most serious offenders in our society, but she’s also worked with some of the most vulnerable. At times she’s also been on the receiving end of abusive behaviour which has affected her own mental health and taught her lessons about how we ...

Send us a Text Message.Today’s guest was a Senior Global Director at both Microsoft and Google, but after suffering a severe breakdown he left the corporate world to find personal fulfillment at a Start-Up.Mark Hodgson says his life collapsed around him four years ago, but he now recognises the warning signs were there for years.At his new company - Cervest, he is combining lifelong passions with professional experience and driving the Mental Health Agenda forward to support his colleagues.&n...

Send us a Text Message.Today’s guest is Paul Spanner.Paul is a former Senior Officer in the Royal Marines, who was medically discharged after a cycling accident in which he suffered a fractured skull, broken back and neck among other injuries. He died twice at the side of the road. For most of us a crash of that scale may keep us off a bike forever, but Paul went on to join the GB Paralympic Cycling programme, and compete at a World Championship. After the accident he spent severa...