Susan Cummins Community Matron for Physical Health  at Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust. @SusanMHMatron ‏ My workday starts around 8.15am On a typical day My morning clinics begin at 9 am so I prepare the clinical room ensuring I have all the required equipment – blood taking sets, set up the ECG machine and charge… Read More

By Jennifer Springham, @jlspringham2 Joint Appointment: Lecturer in Mental Health and Practice Development Lead, My Care Academy.  This week the Mental Health Nurses Association took place, organised by David Munday and the MHNA team. The day included a bill of excellent talks by key people representing their organisations, highlighting the great work being done to improve practice… Read More

By Helen Kehoe  @Helsbels88 Joint Appointment lecturer in Mental Health and Practice Development lead, My Care Academy. This blog intends to give a brief introduction of emotional dysregulation and to share my experience of my own learning and the positive effects of relevant training and experience. I hope that this small piece will interest anyone in… Read More

By Jennifer Springham @jlspringham2 Joint Appointment: Lecturer in Mental Health and Practice Development Lead, My Care Academy. Recently Middlesex University held the annual Learning and Teaching conference, this year’s theme being ‘Pedagogies fit for 21st-century learning’, with the focus on innovation in learning and teaching. The conference was organised by the university CAPE team (Centre for Academic Practice… Read More

A new study between the NIHR and King’s College London is seeking 40,000 people diagnosed with anxiety or depression to take part in an exciting piece of new research. The Genetic links to Anxiety and Depression (GLAD) study hopes to create the biggest ever database of volunteers in the UK to help explore genetic factors between… Read More

The Children’s Society is a national charity that works with the country’s most vulnerable children and young people. They have partnered with the University of York and produced the 7th Edition of The Good Childhood report which covers England and Wales. As part of the report’s research, it has included new evidence on Trends in… Read More

By Anne Onille-ere, Staff Nurse at Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust Next up in our NQN series, we have a reflective blog written by Anne, who qualified from Middlesex University last year and has kindly shared her preceptorship experience. I’m a 27-year-old newly qualified nurse, well not as new anymore as I’m coming up to a… Read More

Ruairi Mulhern Mental Health Lecturer at Middlesex University  @ruairi_mulhern Morning My work day starts around 9 am On a typical day I remind myself how untypical life at University is. It’s more akin to life as a farmer than life as a nurse. I follow the seasons and some seasons are busier than others. The… Read More

By the MyCA Experts by Experience Group of service users, collated by Suzanne Traynor. My Care Academy (MyCA) is a knowledge building community utilising the skills and talents of staff, service users and carers in the development of learning content and combining this with access via a website to a range of bite size learning… Read More

Can you help shape the next 10 years of the NHS? NHS England has just launched a national conversation campaign to help shape the future of the NHS. Your feedback, comments and suggestions are needed by 30 September on a series of themes that will form the new NHS  ‘Long Term Plan’. Who can take… Read More