- Mental Health and Patient Involvement
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Psychiatric care and mental health services
- Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints
- Empathy and Medical Education
- Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Health Policy Implementation Science
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
- Trauma, Hemostasis, Coagulopathy, Resuscitation
- Trauma and Emergency Care Studies
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Mental Health via Writing
- Community Health and Development
- Social Work Education and Practice
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Chronic Disease Management Strategies
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
- Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration
- Academic Freedom and Politics
- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Blood donation and transfusion practices
Institute of Mental Health
2019-2024
University of Sheffield
2024
University of Nottingham
2022-2024
Plymouth Hospital
2014
King's College London
2001
University of Leeds
2000
Narratives describing first‐hand experiences of recovery from mental health problems are widely available. Emerging evidence suggests that engaging with narratives can benefit people experiencing problems, but no randomized controlled trial has been conducted as yet. We developed the Narrative Experiences Online (NEON) Intervention, a web application providing self‐guided and recommender systems access to collection recorded (n=659). investigated whether NEON Intervention benefited adults...
Objectives Post-traumatic growth, defined as positive psychological change experienced a result of the struggle with challenging life circumstances, is under-researched in people mental health problems. The aim this study was to develop conceptual framework for post-traumatic growth context recovery psychosis and other severe Design Qualitative thematic analysis cross-sectional semi-structured interviews about personal experiences recovery. Setting England. Participants were adults aged over...
Demand for digital health interventions is increasing in many countries. The use of recorded mental recovery narratives becoming more widespread clinical practice. Mental are first-person lived experience accounts from problems, including struggles and successes over time. Helpful impacts include connectedness with the narrative validation experiences. Possible harms feeling disconnected excluded others. Diverse collections types narrators describing multiple ways to recover important...
Background Institutional injustice refers to structures that create disparities in resources, opportunities and representation. Marginalised people experience institutional injustice, inequalities discrimination through intersecting personal characteristics social circumstances. This study aimed investigate sources of their effects on marginalised with mental health problems. Methods Semi-structured interviews were conducted 77 individuals from groups problems, including psychosis, Black,...
Background Enduring ethnic inequalities exist in mental healthcare. The COVID-19 pandemic has widened these. Aims To explore stakeholder perspectives on how the increased Method A qualitative interview study of four areas England with 34 patients, 15 carers and 39 health professionals from National Health Service (NHS) community organisations (July 2021 to July 2022). Framework analysis was used develop a logic model inter-relationships between pre-pandemic barriers impacts. Results Impacts...
Mental health ‘recovery narratives’ are increasingly used within teaching, learning and practice environments. The mainstreaming of their use has been critiqued by scholars activists as a co-option lived experience for organisational purposes. But how people report experiences telling stories not investigated at scale. We present accounts from 71 with multiple inequalities in formal informal settings. A reflexive thematic analysis was conducted critical constructivist approach. Our...
Introduction Mental health recovery narratives are widely available to the public, and can benefit people affected by mental problems. The NEON Intervention is a novel web-based digital intervention providing access Collection of narratives. was found be effective cost-effective in NEON-O Trial for with nonpsychosis problems (ISRCTN63197153), has also been evaluated psychosis experience (ISRCTN11152837). We aimed document experiences, through an integrated process evaluation. Methods...
Aims and Method Supervised discharge orders (SDOs) enable a degree of compulsion to be exerted over patients in the community. We aimed establish level of, reasons for, their use consultants' perceptions effectiveness. All mental health provider NHS trusts England were surveyed, random sample cohort cases was identified. Community responsible medical officers (CRMOs) surveyed using semi-structured questionnaire. Results identified 596 subject SDOs 170 (100%) England, involving 18% consultant...
Long-standing ethnic inequalities in access and mental healthcare were worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic.Stakeholders coproduced local national implementation plans to improve for people from minority groups.Experience-based codesign conducted four areas covered National Health Service (NHS) health trusts: Coventry Warwickshire, Greater Manchester, East London Sheffield. Data analysed using an interpretivist-constructivist approach, seeking validation participants on their priority actions...
Objective: This article discusses the creation of a new paediatric cardiac surgical service via merging two units. Setting: In 2005, Queensland Government made commitment to improve health outcomes for Queensland’s children. pledge included review cardiology and surgery. A recent cluster deaths following surgery at The Prince Charles Hospital (TPCH) concerns expressed by clinicians regarding adequacy service, resulted in being commissioned. panel well respected, eminent professionals were...
1University of Plymouth, Peninsula College Medicine and Dentistry, United Kingdom, 2Plymouth NHS Trust, Dept Anaesthesiology, 3Plymouth Department Haematology, Kingdom
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