Our editorial advisory board
Mental Health Practice provides information that will enable readers, including students, to develop creative and evidence-based approaches to practice
To ensure that content continues to be of practical value to subscribers, the editor and consultant editor are advised by members of an editorial advisory board, who have a range of experience and who work in a variety of settings.
As well as contributing to the editorial development of Mental Health Practice, they also act as ambassadors for RCNi and promote their position on the editorial advisory board among colleagues and on public occasions.
The current board members are:
| Russell Ashmore | Senior lecturer, Sheffield Hallam University | Acosia Nyanin | Deputy chief nursing officer for England – professional and system leadership, NHS England, London |
| Catherine Gamble | Programme lead (mental health), RCN Institute | Deirdre O’Neill | Lecturer, Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland |
| Stephen Jones | UK head of nursing practice, Royal College of Nursing, London | Pras Ramluggun | Associate professor of mental health sciences and nursing, Northumbria University |
| Rachel Luby | RCNi Mental Health Nursing award winner, senior practitioner, crisis response service, Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust | Joanne Schofield | Director of nursing and quality, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust |
| Marsha McAdam | Service user representative | Ben Thomas | Professor of mental health nursing, London South Bank University; patient safety expert adviser – mental health, NHS Improvement |
| Helena Ann Mitchell | Mental health researcher/consultant | Karen Wright | Emeritus professor, University of Central Lancashire |
| Michael Nash | Associate professor of mental health nursing, Trinity College Dublin |
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To find out more about joining the board, please contact the editor at mhp@rcni.com