More than a year has now passed since the first national lockdown in response to COVID-19. This has been a year that has tested all of us, both personally and professionally, and with the Five year forward view for mental health also ending in March 2021, I find myself reflecting on what we have achieved […]

As a nurse with over thirty years’ experience, and a champion of personalised care, I would like to take the opportunity of International Nurses Day 2021 to thank all my colleagues who practise personalised care in their daily professional life. I am an ex-diabetes specialist nurse, and understand how important it is to get the […]

Our recent NHS Equality and Diversity Council Working Group meeting was encouraging and productive, ratifying the transformation of the NHS People Plan’s key drivers into meaningful actions. Despite our NHS being made up of many different organisations, this year more than ever there’s the feeling of the NHS as one team. People have been redeployed […]

Pregnancy and the birth of a child should be special times for families, full of excitement and anticipation, unfortunately this is not always the case. Four members of my family are either new parents or pregnant, all aged between 25 and 35 and sadly, their most urgent questions to me relate to their own safety. […]

‘It has transformed my world’ – one year on from revolutionary treatment to halt sight loss. The past year has been one like no other. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced our worlds to shrink and created a new and bizarre norm. But, for 24-year-old Jake he has seen his world grow and is glimpsing it […]

Maternal Mental Health Services (MMHS) will bring together maternity, psychology and reproductive health services for women who experience moderate-severe mental ill health from loss or trauma as a result of their maternity experience, but previously did not have a service to access. In this blog, Dr Giles Berrisford and Professor Jacqueline Dunkley-Bent provide an overview […]