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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.

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.

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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

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

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

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

Welcome to episode 153 [originally broadcast on Wednesday 28 February 2024] of #mhTV​​​​​​​​. This week Nicky Lambert and Vanessa Gilmartin spoke with guests Cielito Caneja, Dennis Singson & Oliver Soriano about the Philippine Nurses Association UK.

Some X links to follow are:
VG - www.x.com/VanessaRNMH
NL - www.x.com/niadla​​​​​​​​
DM - www.x.com/davidamunday
CC - www.x.com/CielitoCaneja
DS - www.x.com/dence10
OS - www.x.com/GoalsOlivers

Credits:
#mhTV Presenters: Vanessa Gilmartin, Nicky Lambert & David Munday
Guests: Cielito Caneja, Dennis Singson & Oliver Soriano
Theme music: Tony Gillam
Production & Editing: David Munday