The third Culture of Care learning network event this month took place yesterday at Manchester, with the afternoon session focused on a personalised approach to risk. This event was facilitated by the Culture of Care delivery team and partners.

Our @ncish.bsky.social Director Professor Kapur spoke at the conference about the importance of leaving no one behind, the need for compassionate psychosocial assessments for everyone following self-harm, timely interventions and about implementing research findings back into services

The fourth Culture of Care learning network event took place yesterday in Sheffield. These learning events are focused on safety and relationships, two of the Culture of Care standards, with afternoon sessions focused on personalised approaches to risk.

Considering applying for our Patient Safety Research Development Award? Hear from John Sainsbury, a member of our first cohort, as he shares his experience so far. 📅 Join our webinar on Thursday, 25 Sept to learn more 🔗https://www.psrc-gm.nihr.ac.uk/development-award/

2️⃣ Umbrella review of psychosocial and ward-based interventions to reduce self-harm and suicide risks in in-patient mental health settings 🔗 cambridge.org/core/journal... 🧵3/3

1️⃣ National clinical assessment data of Indigenous Traveller women attending 24 Irish emergency departments, between 2018–2022, in a suicidal crisis: a sequential mixed method study 🔗 cambridge.org/core/journal... 🧵2/3

As part of the Culture of Care Programme, @drleahquinlivan.bsky.social is delivering learning events on topics related to personalised approaches to risk, alongside people with lived experience & academic experts. Recordings available for each event on our website: buff.ly/6Ypdvbx

Following WHO call that we can no longer be silent I tweeted this in May. Thousands more innocent people killed since then (inc 17,000 children since Oct 2023) & hostages remain incarcerated. But still, people with voices & power to make this devastation end remain silent. My heart breaks 💔

Opportunity to participate in this important study on psychosis & dental anxiety ⬇️. Results from this study will contribute towards better care & reducing long-standing inequalities. @psychosisdental.bsky.social @manchester.ac.uk @fbmh-uom.bsky.social @fbmhdocacad.bsky.social

According to multiple sources this afternoon, in Parliament, Liz Kendall will announce ‘concessions’ on the welfare bill. Do not clap. These aren’t concessions. This isn’t compassion. It’s a PR fudge to mask cuts that will devastate lives. #DisabilityRights #TakingThePIP

The Culture of Care programme is underpinned by lived experience & equity principles. We are working alongside lived experience advisors, Black Thrive Global and Neurodiverse Connection to embed anti-racist, autism-informed & trauma-informed approaches. Illustration by Leanne Walker

You can find out more about the principles here: www.rcpsych.ac.uk/improving-ca... @drleahquinlivan.bsky.social @rcpsych.bsky.social

NEW FROM ME - Britain is abandoning international medical consensus on disability. Every other developed nation recognizes cumulative impairment as genuine severity. We're about to become an anomaly—and the logic of 4+ suggests it was deliberate. tinyurl.com/mwwb5xv4

Huge congratulations to our Prof Nav Kapur who has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of General Practitioners in recognition of his outstanding contributions to general practice @merseycarenhs.bsky.social @nihr-gmpsrc.bsky.social www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/u...

Congratulations to our amazing researcher Lana who has been awarded the Doctoral Academy’s Best Outstanding Research Contribution Award 🎉

Put another post up on LinkedIn in an attempt to galvanise more health professionals to make noise agaisnt these deadly #DisabilityBenefits cuts. Professionals cannot, via silence, enable Labour to #TakethePIP.

Our Prof Nav Kapur, Director of @ncish.bsky.social‬ & ‪@merseycarenhs.bsky.social‬ Honorary Consultant will be speaking about Suicide in the North of England next week at the ‪@thenhsa.bsky.social‬ Northern Mental Health Network meeting – details in the flyer ‪@nihr-gmpsrc.bsky.social‬

Hattie Cant & I had a brilliant catch up with the fantastic team @battlescars-sh.bsky.social for our @nihr-gmpsrc.bsky.social KSS #selfharm research. Stunning building, with lovely people in a therapeutic, neurodivergent friendly and warm environment, that is filled with art and hope.

Receiving this Highly Commended Award is an outstanding recognition of the excellent work carried out by our team in co-designing and delivering open-access resources to share learning and best practice, enabling more meaningful PPIE in suicide prevention research. Read more on our blog 🔽

👏Congratulations to our team for receiving a 'Highly Commended' Making a Difference Award! This an outstanding recognition of our team's work for better PPI in suicide prevention research! @drleahquinlivan.bsky.social @ncish.bsky.social @danstears.bsky.social @fbmh-uom.bsky.social m.bsky.social

Congrats to our fantastic #MS4MHr PPI team. Great recognition for all their incredible PPIE work in self-harm & suicide prevention! #MaDAwards @socialresponuom.bsky.social @ncish.bsky.social @nihr-gmpsrc.bsky.social @danstears.bsky.social

Please share! 🆕 Fully funded PhD scholarship by Scottish charity Men Matter Scotland Social inequality and male suicide: Risk factors & interventions Supervised by Dr Susie Bennett & myself Closing: 11th June 2025, autumn 2025 start. Open to UK students only. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Please give this flyer to any healthcare provider you come across as the more signatures we get the better. Thanks to the fab @argentas.bsky.social for the flyer idea, the qr code and being a FOi genius! #WelfareNotWarfare

TERRIFIC NEWS: Over 1,250 people have now signed our healthcare provider-led letter against brutal disability benefits cuts.🙌 Every new signature = more pressure on Parliament + press. PERSONAL TESTIMONY × FACTS × CLINICAL BACK-UP = OUR BEST CHANCE. ✍️https://tinyurl.com/4vav3vnv

🚨 We've had 300+ signatures in under 24 hours — incredible. 🙌Let’s try to get to 600 by tomorrow. Every signature helps build pressure for parliamentary scrutiny and media coverage. Please sign + RT if you can + send to channels this oldie doesn't understand. Thank you so, so much💥

📢We have been shortlisted for the @uniofmanchester.bsky.social ‘Making a Difference Awards’ for our work in sharing best practice for public engagement in suicide prevention Huge congrats to the team 👏 Check out our shortlisted toolkits: www.psrc-gm.nihr.ac.uk/public-invol... #patientsafety #nihr

Delighted to share development of Scotland's national Distress Brief Intervention New way of responding to people in distress >82,000 people across Scotland have received DBI since its inception & currently being trialled in Australia & England. bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Over past few days, I’ve heard awful stories about US academics working in health equity having their grants cancelled by NIH. Vital work on suicide, HIV, LGBT health. People’s careers damaged & lives of those already vulnerable harmed. Sadly, lives will be lost. Thinking of those affected 💔

If anything, the UK’s mental health crisis is one of UNDERdiagnosis not OVERdiagnosis. 📉APMS study found: Less than half of those with severe distress get treatment. Only a third needing primary care support have a diagnosis. The real issue is not overdiagnosis but undercare.

🧵 The UK government has announced they will make over £5bn in cuts to disabled people’s social security. This is the biggest cut on record. And we’re appalled. People at food banks have told us that they’re terrified about how they might survive.

I have communicated with people today who feel suicidal and pushed to self-harm or addiction relapse due to this bloody #DWP announcement. I’ve also spoke to people convinced they are the problem and that they should immediately come off benefits. Please do none of the above 1/2

Particularly given the awful changes in protections and provisions for LGBTQ+ youths we've seen recently, I am so interested to hear the wonderful @kirstyclarkphd.bsky.social speak about her work on LGBTQ+ youth suicide across Scotland and the US. events.bookitbee.com/university-o...

Explore topics in our newest annual report including a) patients with bipolar disorder, b) patients who have missed their last contact with services and/or were non-adherent with medication, and c) patients who have been recently bereaved. https://buff.ly/4gIYw7x

Not only am I off to the Royal Garden Party on the 7th May, but on the 8th am off to an award ceremony at UoM for the word we do in research. 2025 is turning out to be amazing!

"We need less research, better research, and research done for the right reasons." Doug Altman wrote this in 1994. NINETEEN NINETY FOUR! And it's only gotten much much worse. At least in medicine and health, we are doing harm by maintaining a stutus quo aimed at maximizing publication numbers.

Paper in Lancet Psych on using QI to address ever present implementation gaps for suicide prevention & self-harm interventions. Led by our brilliant Prof Nav Kapur @ncish.bsky.social. I'm in awe of how Nav articulated such large programmes of work into one excellently written paper.

The Culture of Care programme provides an important opportunity to transform inpatient care.Today, we @ncish.bsky.social held an excellent national learning event with Rory O'Connor @roryoc.bsky.social & Seonaid Cleare. Always brilliant to have @dremmanielsen.bsky.social co-facilitating events

This paper builds on our @thelancet.bsky.social @thelancetpsych.bsky.social papers from 2012 and 2016 which focussed on service changes in clinical services. www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journal... www.thelancet.com/action/showP...

You can access our new paper (Quality improvement for suicide prevention and self-harm intervention: addressing the implementation gap and saving lives) up to 1st April 2025 for free using this link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Research is invaluable but what about implementation? Our new Lancet Psychiatry paper suggests #QualityImprovement could be an excellent approach to implementing suicide & self-harm research findings. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Do you know why people who find out they are autistic do this? It’s a request for kindness and understanding before doing or saying something which will be perceived as odd. It’s also a way to understand ourselves, having just received a new word to describe how we’ve been our entire lives

Hi Bluesky! We are the National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Safety in Mental Health (NCISH). We have been leading suicide prevention research in the UK for over 20 years and aim to improve safety for all mental health patients. Follow us to stay up to date with our work

Super proud of being involved in developing this important resource with researchers and young people. Useful, practical tips you are a researcher, young person - as well as funders and ethics committees involved in suicide prevention research. If this is you please check it out 🙏

💪 First phd paper out. 📝 We aimed to investigate the association between ethnicity and rapid traqullisation use i adult mental health inpatient settings. 💡 We found that the odds were 49% higher in ethnic minorities. @bmj.com @gildberg.bsky.social @abricca.bsky.social @drjohnabaker.bsky.social

If you’re doing patient involvement for a mental health service and you are only listening to people who have been able to use the service, you risk an incomplete picture. You also need to listen to those who needed the service but were excluded from it, unable to access it, or ‘gatekept’ away.

This is particularly a risk as mental health services are increasingly fragmented. Super-specialisation means teams may see patients meeting narrow criteria. Often it seems few in the system have a sense of what happens to unwell patients who don’t meet those. It isn’t just unmet need, it is unseen.

Increasingly I see criteria for patient involvement stipulating a person must have used a service in the last two years (or less) to have a say. Only listening to those for whom the system is working (to some extent, even if only in access), means potential for learning and improvement is limited.

@elliewildbore.bsky.social brilliant having you here Ellie !