Colin Parish
Is having just one World Mental Health Day a year enough?
Colin Parish argues that additional long-term funding is crucial to ensure mental health services are as good as they need to be
Leading academic calls for mental health nurses to highlight the value of the specialty...
Nursing academic urges staff to ‘make some noise and be more political’
Integrated training could be the key to unlocking parity of esteem
A round-table discussion shed light on the importance of training in improving outcomes
RCN Mental Health Forum campaigns for adequate therapeutic time
The RCN's mental health forum, the college's largest, is intending to fight to get the profession the time it needs to provide therapeutic care
Frailty should be viewed as a reversible syndrome, congress fringe told
Recognise frailty as a clinical condition that needs to be managed, researchers say
Mental health nursing: RCN lead Catherine Gamble on why she feels optimistic
The RCN mental health professional lead reflects on her first six months in the job
Ombudsman: workforce shortages jeopardise patient safety
A report, published by The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman highlights the affects workforce shortages in mental healthcare are having on patients
Two years into the Five Year Forward View has progress been made?
Two years into the Five Year Forward View, one of England's most senior mental health nurses assesses progress made
Mental Health Act review
Prime minister said review will focus on ‘injustice and discrimination’ in system
Watch: Felicity Stockwell – interview with the author of The Unpopular Patient
Mental health advocate Felicity Stockwell wrote The Unpopular Patient, which is regarded as one of the most influential pieces of nursing research ever written. In this interview, she reflects on the highlights of her nursing career with Mental Health Practice editor, Colin Parish and discusses how to build rapport with ‘difficult’ patients.
Felicity Stockwell: the popular nurse who wrote The Unpopular Patient
Felicity Stockwell wrote The Unpopular Patient, which is regarded as one of the most influential pieces of nursing research ever written.
Half a century of nursing with mental health nurse Kevin Gournay
Influential mental health nurse Kevin Gournay, on how half a century working in the profession has given him hope towards future nursing generations.