Category " Campaigns for better services"

I want to share a personal development in my life with the desire that it may encourage you to keep on keeping on with whatever you feel is your passion or purpose in life. We all need something to motivate us when we the feel need to give it up because we feel ‘the odds’ […]

For a long time I have wanted to have a conference on perinatal mental health in Scotland. Thanks to the support from the efficient and lively Salford OneCPD team, this was made possible last week as the third of our joint events, based on my second book, went ahead in Edinburgh. The first was one year […]

I was invited to be the opening keynote speaker at this event for Network for Psychiatric Nursing Research (NPNR), supported by the Royal College of Nursing and I was able to join in the whole event. Here are my experiences and learnings. I have never begun my attendance anywhere with the comment to a hotel receptionist, […]

As a non-medically trained author, to have my book ‘Another Twinkle in the Eye – Contemplating another pregnancy after perinatal mental illness’,  highly commended for outstanding contribution to medical literature by the British Medical Association, is such an honour. Last night I went to the Awards ceremony held at BMA house in London to discover […]

I have been speaking to students at Salford University for a number of years now and was delighted to present at their ‘Women and Wellbeing Conference’ on 17th June. This was aimed at women in general and organised by the University of Salford Maternity Users group.  It was a free conference for women and families focused on […]