Meet the team
RCN Mental Health Adviser
Ian Hulatt is the Mental Adviser at the Royal College of Nursing. He has a UK remit and is responsible for advising on the RCN’s contribution to Mental Health Nursing policy. He supports the work of the four forums in Mental Health within the RCN, and liaises with individual RCN members who seek support in their work.
Prior to this role he was a lecturer in Mental Health nursing for seventeen years teaching both undergraduate and post graduate nurses. This latterly was focussed on the leading of a Thorn (psycho-social interventions) course.
Based primarily in Wales Ian’s role involves much travel which affords the opportunity to encounter much good practice in the craft of mental health nursing.
Forum chair
Cris Allen
Email: cris.allen@o2.co.uk
Cris has worked as a mental health - and learning disability - nurse for over thirty years. He has occupied a wide range of clinical and managerial roles in various organisations. Cris was formerly the mental health adviser at the RCN and as such has worked closely with the mental health forum. He has subsequently been an elected - and then appointed - member of the mental health forum steering committee. Cris was appointed chair of the forum's steering committee in November 2011. Cris and all his colleagues on the steering committee are keen to have contact with the wider forum membership, to hear your issues, concerns and successes - and harness your interests and expertise in taking forum projects forward.
Forum committee members
Mark Haddad
Email: mark.haddad.1@city.ac.uk
Mark is a senior lecturer in mental health nursing at City University London, and was formerly clinical research fellow at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London. His research and clinical interests include common mental disorders, care for long-term conditions, development and evaluation of clinician education, epidemiology and health services research, and he maintains a clinical role in primary care. Mark was a member of the NICE guideline development group for depression and chronic physical health problems, and has been editor of Nursing Minds, the shared newsletter for the RCN mental health forums.
Joy Duxbury
Email: jduxbury@uclan.ac.uk
Joy is Reader in Mental Health Nursing and leads the development of and provision for research in the Centre for Mental Health & Wellbeing within the School of Health. She has a background in forensic and acute inpatient mental health care. Joy has conducted extensive research into staff and patients perspectives on aspects of risk and safety with a specific focus upon aggression, coercive practices and medication management. Her work and publications reflect this area of investigation.
Joy is particularly keen to work with service users and carers to understand the challenges they face when accessing care and their perspectives on therapuetic and non therapeutic relationships. This largely relates to mental health but also includes areas of investigation across the life span including end of life care and dementia. Consequently service users and carers work with Joy and her team on a number of research projects.
Deborah McAulay
Email: Deborah.mcaulay@nhft.nhs.uk
Deborah is a Mental Health Nurse and currently works as Lead Nurse for Service Improvement at Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust. Her role involves supporting the Head of Service Improvement in sharing and disseminating learning and good practice from Serious Incidents and supporting the implementation of quality improvement initiatives such as Releasing Time to Care across Mental Health Services within the organisation. She maintains clinical credibility through continued ‘hands on’ working on wards and through her involvement with the RCN Mental Health Forum Deborah is keen to support and reinforce the valuable role of Mental Health Nurses within the nursing community.
Anna Marie Felice
Email: annamarie.felice@cri.org.uk
Anna Marie joined the RCN Mental Health Forum in 2011, during the time she was working as a Clinical Nurse Specialist with the Community Drug and Alcohol Team, Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation NHS Trust. With over 20 years’ experience in mental health nursing and substance misuse, she was instrumental in developing local shared care guidelines for Hertfordshire together with the Joint Commissioning Team, undertaking subsequent updates, reflecting appropriate changes in the field. Recent changes to substance misuse services in Hertfordshire have led to a change in employment. Anna Marie’s now hold the position of Nurse Team Leader for the Drug and Alcohol Recovery Service, one of the services managed by the Crime Reduction Initiative (CRI), a registered charity in England and Wales.
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