Category " Parliament"

I’ve arrived home after being on the Victoria Derbyshire LIVE show on BBC2 this morning. I was part of an invited audience of 80 people – a mixture of NHS staff and patients; two MPs; leaders and representatives from health bodies such as the BMA and Royal College of Nursing. Here are my thoughts and an […]

I was invited to be the opening keynote speaker at this event for Network for Psychiatric Nursing Research (NPNR), supported by the Royal College of Nursing and I was able to join in the whole event. Here are my experiences and learnings. I have never begun my attendance anywhere with the comment to a hotel receptionist, […]

As a non-medically trained author, to have my book ‘Another Twinkle in the Eye – Contemplating another pregnancy after perinatal mental illness’,  highly commended for outstanding contribution to medical literature by the British Medical Association, is such an honour. Last night I went to the Awards ceremony held at BMA house in London to discover […]

(Please note that I wrote this blog before the murder of Jo Cox MP and felt that it was better to wait to publish it out of respect for her. It is intended purely as a review of the conference on 9th June and to highlight the work around Infant mental health.) When I first set out on my […]