We are delighted to invite you to our upcoming SafetyNet webinar – Patients measuring safety: changing the nature of acute mental health wards from reactive firefighting to providing proactive care.

Join us as we hear from Prof John Baker, Chair of Mental Health Nursing at the School of Healthcare, University of Leeds.

 Date: Wednesday, 9 July
 Time: 12:30pm – 1:30pm
📍 Where: Online (Zoom)

We know acute mental health wards are not safe for patients or staff. Efforts to reduce coercion and restrictive practice are often complex and are poorly implemented. Services continue failure to understand incidents and the dynamic milieu of wards in real-time.  The staffing and skill mix of services are under constant pressure. Recent research, #WardSonar, has successfully focused on enabling patients to highlight when the pressure on wards is building and can predict when incidents might occur. The challenge remains enabling staff to listen to and respond to real-time data.

Meet the speakers

John was appointed to Chair of Mental Health Nursing at the School of Healthcare, University of Leeds in 2015. His research focuses on improving the quality and safety of mental health care, through a focus on reducing coercion and restrictive practices, patient and professional safety in mental health services, developing effective and therapeutic mental health services. He currently Chairs the NIHR Doctoral Clinical and Practitioner Academic Fellowship (DCAF) scheme and is an Adjunct Professor at the Forensic Mental Health Research Unit Middelfart (RFM), Department of Regional Health Research, Faculty of Health Science, University of Southern Denmark & Psychiatric dept. Middelfart, Mental Health Services in the Region of Southern Denmark. He has been a Registered Nurse for 30 years.

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