Service User Involvement in Mental Health Services in Six European Countries
Mental health service users, nurses and other health care professionals, and academics from Finland, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania Portugal and England will be taking part in an international seminar on user involvement in mental health care at St George’s, University of London, London, UK, on Wednesday the 27th of February 2008.
The event, hosted by Professor Mary Chambers from the Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, St George’s, University of London and Kingston University, is part of the European Commission-funded Leonardo da Vinci project, ePsychNurse.Net, which aims to improve mental health nurses’ continued vocational training. Specifically, it seeks to ensure high quality, ethically appropriate and therapeutically effective interventions to enable nurses to manage distressed and disturbed patients in psychiatric hospitals and inpatient units in England, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania and Portugal.
Presentations at the event will cover the theme of user involvement from a variety of perspectives. The presenters include: Samantha Connor for the University of Ulster, Dr Julie Repper from Nottingham University, Dr Rachel Perkins from South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust and Kath Lovell and Dr Rohan Borschmann from St George’s, University of London. There will also be presentations from users and nurses from each of the six countries.
This multi-professional event is an ideal opportunity to network with colleagues, users and carers from the six countries taking part and to share all our experiences of good practice.