Mental Health
Speakers
Phil Hope MP Phil Hope MP is Minister of State for Care Services at the Department of Health and Minister for the East Midlands. Phil’s previous positions in central government include: Minister for the Third Sector, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Skills, Private Secretary to former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott. He was elected to Kettering Borough Council during the 1980s and Northamptonshire County Council between 1993 and 1997 where he chaired the Equal Opportunities Committee. Formerly a teacher at Kettering School for Boys, Phil has also been a youth policy advisor to the National Council for Voluntary Organisations, Head of the Young Volunteer Resources Unit at the National Youth Bureau and a management consultant to not-for-profit organisations. Phil was educated at Wandsworth Comprehensive School and St Luke's College, Exeter. |
Kathryn Tyson Kathryn Tyson has worked in the Department of Health for 26 years and is the Director of Mental Health Policy. She is the senior civil servant responsible for advising Ministers on all aspects of (adult) mental health policy, working closely with NIMHE and with Professor Louis Appleby, the National Clinical Director. She took up this post in September 2005, before which she was seconded to the Healthcare Commission for two years to develop and lead its children's strategy. Prior to that, she headed the child health and maternity policy team in DH. She has two teenage children, and works a four-day week. Her other interests include skiing and hill-walking, rock-climbing, quizzes, theatre, cinema and literature. |
Professor Louis Appleby Louis Appleby is National Director for Mental Health in England and Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Manchester. He has played a central role in plans to reform mental health services as part of the Government’s NHS Plan, bringing in a range of new services including home treatment, early intervention and assertive outreach teams, and mental health legislation. He has led numerous initiatives including programmes to reduce suicides and improve the physical environment of mental health wards. Since 1996 he has been Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Manchester and has been a consultant psychiatrist in Manchester since 1991. He was awarded a CBE for services to medicine in the 2006 New Year Honours. |
Dr Jo Nurse Dr Jo Nurse has a varied background in Psychiatry, General Practice and Clinical Work in Sexual Health working with an outreach project for women working in prostitution. Jo initiated Public Health specialisation during 1998, gaining experience in health promotion, adolescent health, substance misuse, prison health, and violence prevention. During 2003, Jo was seconded to the Violence and Injury Prevention, and Gender and Women’s Health Departments at the World Health Organisation, Geneva, to work on Sexual Relationship Violence and its prevention in adolescence. Continue to maintain a research interest in Violence Prevention, with an honorary post at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Jo has a research interest is on the public health contribution to policy for the prevention of violence and abuse. She is qualified as a consultant in Public Health in 2003, with initial posts in Southampton and Portsmouth PCT. Since 2004,she has advised nationally on Violence and Abuse Prevention to the DH and HO. In 2005, Jo took up employment with the Department of Health in the SE Regional Public Health Group, leading on Public Mental Health and Housing. Since 2006, she has taken on responsibility for the national lead role on excess winter and summer deaths for the Department of Health; this role includes addressing fuel poverty/ promoting winter warmth and the National Heatwave Plan, and leading the development of a DH Guidance Document on Climate Change and Health (2008), and Public Health workforce development on climate change. In January 2008, Jo took on the national lead role in Public Mental Health and Well Being for the Department of Health. This involves the development of a Well Being framework, promoting leadership in Public Mental Health and working across departments to influence policy to promote well being. |
Steve Shrubb Steve Shrubb joined the NHS 30 years ago as a domestic/nursing assistant. He then went on to train as a nurse before training as a cognitive-behavioural therapist. Steve has worked clinically in primary care and neuropsychiatry before going into management. He has been chief executive of two mental health trusts and has been lead director in the National Institute of Mental Health in England and director of the North East, Yorkshire and Humber Development centre. Steve Shrubb has an excellent track record in working in partnership in developing services and supporting the implementation of policy. Steve places a high priority on working with service users to increase their influence on service delivery and improvement. He is particularly interested in the continuing challenge of combating stigma and discrimination, which so negatively affects the lives of people with mental health problems. |
Peter Kelly Jo Nurse is National Lead for Public Mental Health and Well-Being at the Department of Health (DH). A Consultant in Public Health and an honorary lecturer at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Jo has a varied background in psychiatry, general practice and clinical work in sexual health. |
Judy Weleminsky Judy Weleminsky is the first Chief Executive of MHPF, which supports the development of voluntary sector mental health providers and promotes recovery focussed services. Current initiatives which Judy is leading on include the Mental Health Recovery Star pilot, promoting voluntary sector involvement in the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme, developing an Out of Area Assessment and Placement programme to enable users to be placed in more appropriate services closer to home, and supporting specialist groups within the Forum including employment and HR. Judy represents the Forum on a number of national level bodies including the National Programme for Third Sector Commissioning: Advisory Group and the Department of Health Outcomes Practice Group. With over 30 years experience in the voluntary sector, including being Chief Executive of the National Schizophrenia Fellowship (now Rethink), NCVO and Community matters, Judy has worked with a wide range of organisations in leadership positions. Judy has also served in a governance capacity on government agencies including being a member of the first board of the General Social Care Council and CAFCASS. Judy has also worked as a Senior Consultant with Compass Partnership. |
Angela Greatley, Chief Executive, Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health & Angela Greatley is Chief Executive of the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health. Prior to joining the Centre Angela was Fellow in Mental Health at the King’s Fund. She has worked both in the voluntary sector and the NHS. Angela was formerly a local authority councillor and is now a non-executive director of a mental health NHS trust. She sits on the boards of two mental health charities. The Sainsbury Centre is a charity carrying out research and development programmes to influence policy and practice in mental health care. |
Jonathan Naess After studying Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Oxford, Jonathan has enjoyed an uninterrupted twelve year career in three different but related positions in the city, notwithstanding having suffered from serious mental illness since his early twenties. He trained and practised as a corporate finance lawyer at international law firm Watson, Farley and Williams, then became Senior Manager of regulation at the London Stock Exchange plc’s AIM market, before joining Nabarro Wells & Co Limited a corporate finance advisory house specialising in public company flotations on the LSE as well as mergers and acquisitions. Jonathan is currently on a year’s sabbatical from Nabarro Wells, where he is an equity partner and director. Jonathan is a Visiting Research Associate at the Institute of Psychiatry, a trustee of the Mosaic Clubhouse of the ICCD – a psycho-social rehabilitation project in Balham, an external member of the Charitable Funds for the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and is an active member of MDF the Bipolar Organisation. |
Gary Hogman Gary Hogman leads SHIFT, the Department of Health’s anti-stigma and discrimination programme. Gary has spent over 18 years working in the area of mental health, mainly in the charity sector, as a public affairs professional. He has published a number of research reports and led a number of campaigns. SHIFT is currently focussing on two key audiences – the media and employers. It launched the ‘Action on Stigma’ campaign for employers in 2006, the SHIFT Line Managers Resource in 2007 and the SHIFT Review Panel and Employment Films in 2008. |