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Setting up a reading group

01 May 2010

Mental Health Practice

Feature

This article describes the Get into Reading programme and how it has developed at the Mersey Care NHS Trust. It focuses on why and how reading groups were introduced...

When words fail: introducing music at a mental health trust

22 July 2011

Mental Health Practice

Feature

A service user-led evaluation of a musician in residence project for inpatient units found that music reaches clients who do not otherwise engage with services,...

Taking a human rights-based approach to services

01 November 2010

Mental Health Practice

Feature

This article considers the narrow way in which mental health services usually interpret their human rights obligations under the Human Rights Act 2000. It argues...

Hobson’s advocate

10 April 1991

Nursing Standard

Viewpoint debate

It is fashionable for staff in large mental hospitals to talk of the nurse's role as ‘advocate’ - a worrying trend. An advocate is ‘one who pleads for another’ (1)...

Service users are inspired to imagine their goals

01 February 2011

Mental Health Practice

Feature

The Imagine Your Goals football programme run by Mersey Care NHS Trust has inspired the Football Association, Sports Relief and Time to Change to offer Premier...