You are warmly welcomed to the CMHNN second national conference, Birmingham City University (City South Campus), 9th September 2015. The Critical Mental Health Nurses Network is for anyone who has a stake in the quality of mental health nursing in the UK and beyond. Interest in the Network has been growing strongly and we hope... Continue Reading →
Psychopolitics in the 21st Century
The following post is by Jonathan Gadsby, and is a report on a conference that he attended following an invitation to the CMHNN by one of the supporting organisations, the Social Work Action Network (SWAN). SWAN are the social work equivalent of the CMHNN (more information can be found on their website.) Thank you to... Continue Reading →
The second Critical Mental Health Nurses Network event
It is with great pleasure that we can now announce our second conference, at Birmingham City University, 9th and 10th of September 2015. Please put the dates in your diaries and follow this website for more information. This is going to be a very important event. Costs will be kept as low as possible. Tickets will... Continue Reading →
The CMHNN: Not just for the UK… plus universities, research plans and force-free wards
There is no doubt about it: the internet is an astonishing tool. The choice we made not to describe this network as being for the UK was based on a hope that nurses from other places might find some resonance with our objectives and contribute their perspectives to our conversations. Who knows? Maybe they would... Continue Reading →
The word ‘critical’… and critical is political
The word ‘critical’ Over the next few months, we aim to publish regular blog posts from a wide range of contributors, with the hope of generating discussion and becoming clearer about what might be meant by critical mental health nursing. There are going to be a lot of different views represented. It is therefore probably... Continue Reading →
Welcome, thank you, please read on!
Greetings from the Critical Mental Health Nurses Network! It has been an amazing week since we started this website. We have had several hundred separate visitors, from an amazing 13 different countries! Lots of people have been in touch through the 'contact us' tab at the top, to offer their ideas for writing or simply... Continue Reading →
The CMHNN calls for writers!
Here are three priorities that we feel will move our new network forward: The first is that we need more events like the one in Durham: meeting face to face to think hard about mental health nursing, and to inspire each other with the ways in which critical ideas are shaping our work locally. We... Continue Reading →
Launch of “World’s first Critical Mental Health Nurses’ Network”
Last week, at at conference in Durham, we launched the Critical Mental Health Nurses Network. Everyone there over the two days may consider themselves 'founder members', and there are many others to thank who have carried this idea for some time. This is the first blog post of what we hope will be a major... Continue Reading →
Critical Mental Health Nurses' Network 