Further links
RCN Mental Health Nursing Forum
RCN History of Nursing Society
Wakefield Mental Health Museum
Animated minds
A series of animated documentaries using real testimony from people with mental health problems
Mental Health TV
Currently free to view
MIND
Videos (also on YouTube) are on the pages relating to specific conditions.
Royal College of Psychiatrists
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
College of Occupational Therapists
Videos can be found on their Youtube channel.
HealthTalk / Youthhealthtalk
Information about health issues, through sharing of experiences. A partnership between DipEx, an Oxford based charity, and the Health Experiences Research Group of the Nuffield Department of Primary Care at the University of Oxford.
King’s Fund
A number of blog posts.
NHS Choices
Use the search box with the string “NHS Videos”
NHS tools
Includes apps and online tools, but also videos of carers’ experiences of dementia and videos for young people about mental health.
Pain Concern
Living with chronic musculoskeletal pain. Also available on NIHR YouTube channel.
Patient Stories
This strories “provoke debate about safety and patient experience in healthcare.” Videos include one about sepsis, and another about MRSA and C diff. A license is required to use the videos in educational contexts.
Patient Voices
Digital stories about healthcare.
Patients Like Me
This is an online patient community.
Self Management UK
Find out more about long term conditions.
Society for Participatory Medicine
This is an American based charity working to encourage active involvement of patients and carers in health care. Society site cane be found here.
Further Reading
Chatterton, C. (2012) ‘Mental health nursing – an overview of its development’ in British Journal of Healthcare Assistants, December Vol 06 No 12
Chatterton, C. (2014) ‘Training mental health nurses in the United Kingdom – a historical overview. Part One: pre 1948’ in the Bulletin of the UK Association for the History of Nursing, 3, 22-32.
Nolan, P. (1993) A History of Mental Health Nursing. London: Chapman & Hall
A big thank you
We would like to extend our gratitude to all those at Glenside Hospital Museum for giving their time and cooperation to help to produce this resource, and to the reviewers and RCN staff members who were involved.
Info and credits
This resource was produced by the RCN Nursing Department. Design, photography and copy by John Heseltine and Jessica Heath.