Introduction
This end of year report of the Mental Health Forum demonstrates the variety of projects and workstreams that the team has engaged in over the past year. Our work this year shows how we are an environment for forum members to network, share ideas, inform and influence practice, research and education, while lobbing and developing national policy and legislation.
This year the team has worked collaboratively on consultations such as Mental Health Act Reforms (England and Wales) of which a key outcome was a recently published via an article expanding on the RCN’s response the MHA reforms consultation, re racial inequalities. We hosted a highly attended and successful event “an audience with David Harewood” that facilitated the formal launch of the Forum’s Ethnic Minority Subgroup.
Several other projects and consultations have shaped the development of mental health nursing and nursing careers as we worked together with various organizations. Co-production is central to everything we do by producing resources for nurses’ professional development, as well as campaigning for better policy locally and nationally.