National Elf Service podcasts feature interviews with leading health and social care experts: researchers, clinicians, practitioners and experts by experience.
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Mental illness amongst mental health professionals with Linda Gask, 27 Jun 2017
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Clinician, Academic and Writer, Professor Linda Gask speaks about her own experience living with depression and anxiety, whilst working as a psychiatrist in the NHS.
[read the full story...]Neighbourhood influences on violent reoffending with Amir Sariaslan, 22 Jun 2017
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Amir Sariaslan talks to Derek Tracy and André Tomlin about his recent study: Neighborhood influences on violent reoffending risk in released prisoners diagnosed with psychotic disorders. The discussion also broadens out to discuss causal inference in social epidemiology.
[read the full story...]Women and Drugs, 2 Jun 2017
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Live podcast from the #WomenAndDrugs event that took place in York on 2nd June 2017. Some of the country’s leading experts on mental health and substance abuse gathered at the University of York to “end the silence” surrounding women and addiction.
[read the full story...]Digital mental health #MHQT, 15 Mar 2017
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Live podcast from the third Mental Health Question Time public discussion, which brings together an expert panel to consider how we should reach the future of digital mental health, and what will it look like.
[read the full story...]Street triage, 1 Mar 2017
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Early life deprivation with Edmund Sonuga-Barke, 24 Feb 2017
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Professor Sonuga-Barke discusses his ERA study, published today in The Lancet: Child-to-adult neurodevelopmental and mental health trajectories after early life deprivation: the young adult follow-up of the longitudinal English and Romanian Adoptees study.
[read the full story...]Adult psychiatric morbidity survey with Sara Ketteley, 22 Dec 2016
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Sara Ketteley, Steven Marwaha and Keith Hawton discuss the findings of the fourth national survey of the mental health of English households. The conversation covers general psychiatric morbidity, bipolar disorder, self-harm, suicide and the impact of austerity on mental illness. The full APMS report can be downloaded here: Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey: Survey of Mental Health [read the full story…]
MindTech 2016, 8 Dec 2016
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Live podcast from the fourth annual NIHR MindTech conference, which brought together researchers, clinicians, patients, developers and policy makers with an interest in mental health and digital technologies.
[read the full story...]People Drive Digital #PDDigital16, 29 Nov 2016
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Live podcast from the 2016 People Drive Digital event in Leeds: a festival and creative space for people-orientated approaches to digital technologies and online social networks in health and care.
[read the full story...]Dementia: care or cure? #MHQT 9 Nov 2016
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In this interactive Mental Health Question Time, a family carer, a voluntary sector leader, a journal editor, a health economist and doctors of different backgrounds gave their perspectives on whether scarce resources for research should focus exclusively on finding cures for dementia.
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