ICYMI @martinwebber.bsky.social and I have some thoughts on the recent evaluation of Right Care Right Person… there’s still so much we don’t know for sure about the wider impact of this policing policy or how mental health services should be strengthened so that the police are less involved anyway

Two evaluations have recently been published exploring the impact of Right Care Right Person on the police, health and social care. @lizhughesdd.bsky.social and I have just posted a blog with our thoughts on them - vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/whos-job-is-....

Check out our blog which is our reflections on the recent evaluation of the policy of Right Care Right Person - still a lack of evidence about impact on mental health and ambulance service especially given the under resourcing of health and social care

A moment to celebrate!! 🥳🥳 We’ve reached 100 participants in www.morerespect.co.uk NIHR HTA study evaluating effectiveness of a manualised sexual health promotion intervention for people in community mental health teams. Thank you to all the team & NHS & a big thank you to all the participants

A moment to celebrate!! 🥳🥳 We’ve reached 100 participants in www.morerespect.co.uk NIHR HTA study evaluating effectiveness of a manualised sexual health promotion intervention for people in community mental health teams. Thank you to all the team & NHS & a big thank you to all the participants

📣 Important #MentalHealth #SocialMedia announcement ‣ We've made the decision to focus on platforms that foster kinder, supportive communities ‣ From now on you'll find us mostly on LinkedIn, Bluesky, YouTube & Instagram ‣ X/Twitter will be less of a focus for us youtu.be/1M1GN-kw7NU

Completely agree!

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Published today, a new @childofthenorth.bsky.social @cfyounglives.bsky.social report coordinated by @vp-centre.bsky.social researchers argues for a whole-child approach to childhood vulnerability that focuses on needs vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/news/new-rep...

The appeal in the Supreme Court on how the Equality Act 2010 works with the Gender Recognition Act 2004 has prompted anti-trans voices to shout loudly. If you're affected by what you’re reading, please consider accessing our list of support resources 🩵🩷 goodlawproject.org/support-reso...

We are delighted to be a part of this project. We will link in with @vp-centre.bsky.social mental health project as well…. Watch this space!

I don't know if anyone else is counting the days until the end of the year because I certainly am! However, I'm excited about SIPR's plans for 2025 including 2 brilliant events before summer More information will be provided shortly but in the meantime here's some dates 📅 for your diaries below 👇

A couple of days leave in the Colne Valley (West Yorkshire) catching up with a friend, walks and yoga

Public seminar tomorrow: Reducing sexual violence: an impossible task for policing? 📆Thursday 21 November ⏰ 17:00 🪧 Cambridge Institute of Criminology in-person or online Register here www.crim.cam.ac.uk/events/reduc...

This is the newly published guidance from NHS England on "Right Care, Right Person". I'm yet to read it, so now difficult questions just yet! - will blog about this later in the week if it raises anything worth highlighting. www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/gu...

Big day for policing with Home Secretary to set out reform plans, with backing from NPCC chair Gavin Stephens. Later @policefoundationuk.bsky.social will be publishing a paper by me and Tom Gash setting out what a new national police body should look like www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...

This is lovely and so simple 🙌

link.springer.com/book/10.1007... Our edited volume, Epistemic Injustice in Mental Healthcare, has now been published and is free to download. I made a very small contribution - excellently edited and led by @lisabortolotti.bsky.social and supported by Wellcome

See our latest evidence on Community First Responders governance, activities, outcomes & costs from Community and Health Research Unit: #CFRs' role in the current and future rural health and care workforce: mixed-methods study #MedSky #AcademicSky journalslibrary.nihr.ac.uk/hsdr/jyrt8674/

you can check out all of the #LGBTQIA scientist profiled by the Royal Society for Int’l #LGBTQIAinSTEMDay here! 🌈

I am proud to be one of several #LGBTQIA scientists featured by the Royal Society for Int’l #LGBTQIAinSTEMDay! 🌈 I talk ab how being #intersex has informed my research interests as an evolutionary biologist & biological anthropologist and how I do science 🟨🙆‍♀️🟨 #IntersexInSTEM #QueerInSTEM

Access to green space is such an important factor in health and well-being, we all know this from our lived and living experience, and it is time to incorporate it into our models of addiction and mental health disorders. Glad to see this work! Bravo!

Hello, I’m delighted to say there is now a Nursing Times @bsky.app account up and running at @nursingtimes.bsky.social

Vulnerable patients escaping from secure hospitals, regulator reveals - www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

428 followers in less than 3 days🥳 I’m interested in improving the care/treatment for people +mental health and co-occurring substance use - including police & 999 services. also interested in improving sexual health/safety for people with severe mental illness www.gcu.ac.uk/staff/elizab...

I feel very strongly about this as a parent of a young adult with SEN. As nurses we need to do better but this will be hampered by the decimation of learning disability nursing field www.learningdisabilitytoday.co.uk/topic/health...

What better way to start afresh than announcing the 💥national launch💥 of the Our Futures Vaping Program. That means ALL high schools in Australia can access our evidence-based vaping prevention program for free! Thanks to Hon Mark Butler MP, Matilda Centre USyd, and OurFutures Institute.

Despite being holed up with a bout of pneumonia these last two weeks, I’m enjoying the sense of fresh air here on @bsky.app and delighted to connect to many pals so quickly. Just shows what is possible when we work together. Hello to all my followers - good to see you ❤️

Take a look at the new McPin Foundation bulletin advertising opportunities (some of them paid) to participate in research as a person with lived experience of using mental health services. Please share to help these projects recruit the right people mailchi.mp/835d138c585b... #MadSky

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We are Parliamentarians from all political parties that work together to end HIV & AIDS and to fight for the rights of people living with HIV. We also address the issues surrounding Sexual Health especially the rise in Sexually Transmitted Infections. Visit our website www.appghivaids.org.uk

Online presentation plugging my PhD thesis, and sharing research on experiences of crisis for people diagnosed with 'borderline personality disorder'. Happy to share the full thesis with all humans! Important to understand, as people are often let down by services. Please share. youtu.be/WnjfFfItGnQ

From 2022 but still relevant, how the theory-practice gap can see nurses eat their young, have fresh knowledge and thinking crushed by the status quo. A complex multifaceted issue, but needs to be considered. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

#PsychSky - a global community of psychiatrists, psychologists, mental health professionals, people w lived experience, policy folks & anyone else interested in the brain - is growing! Follow starter packs I & II below. Just say if you want to be added 🧠 go.bsky.app/C36fgiD go.bsky.app/3UH1pKc

I’m concerned about blood borne viruses may be undetected in mental health services - two papers using routine &surveillance data; both indicate a higher than expected positivity in mental health service populations Hep b and C journals.plos.org/mentalhealth... HIV pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37185201/

I’ve recently published this NIHR report on the RECO Study which examined models of care and systems for people with co-occurring severe mental illness and substance use - full report and summary can be found here and papers will be published soon www.journalslibrary.nihr.ac.uk/hta/JTNT0476...

Also working with Martin Webber on this ESRC funded project on how police interact with people with mental health concerns- phase 2 data collection will also include ppl with lived experience their carers and staff in partner agencies vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/mental-healt...

Some of the things I’m working on right now includes the MoreRESPECT trial - we are testing if a manualised conversation about sexual health reduces unprotected sex and increases access to sexual health services for people in mental health services with severe mental illness www.morerespect.co.uk

Well this feels like a nicer place 😊