Dr Leah Quinlivan

The third Culture of Care learning network event this month took place yesterday at Manchester, with the afternoon session focused on a personalised approach to risk. This event was facilitated by the Culture of Care delivery team and partners.

Our @ncish.bsky.social Director Professor Kapur spoke at the conference about the importance of leaving no one behind, the need for compassionate psychosocial assessments for everyone following self-harm, timely interventions and about implementing research findings back into services

The fourth Culture of Care learning network event took place yesterday in Sheffield. These learning events are focused on safety and relationships, two of the Culture of Care standards, with afternoon sessions focused on personalised approaches to risk.

Considering applying for our Patient Safety Research Development Award? Hear from John Sainsbury, a member of our first cohort, as he shares his experience so far.

📅 Join our webinar on Thursday, 25 Sept to learn more
🔗https://www.psrc-gm.nihr.ac.uk/development-award/

2️⃣ Umbrella review of psychosocial and ward-based interventions to reduce self-harm and suicide risks in in-patient mental health settings
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1️⃣ National clinical assessment data of Indigenous Traveller women attending 24 Irish emergency departments, between 2018–2022, in a suicidal crisis: a sequential mixed method study
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Implementing a personalised approach to risk NCISH

As part of the Culture of Care Programme, @drleahquinlivan.bsky.social is delivering learning events on topics related to personalised approaches to risk, alongside people with lived experience & academic experts. Recordings available for each event on our website: buff.ly/6Ypdvbx

Following WHO call that we can no longer be silent I tweeted this in May.

Thousands more innocent people killed since then (inc 17,000 children since Oct 2023) & hostages remain incarcerated.

But still, people with voices & power to make this devastation end remain silent.

My heart breaks 💔

Opportunity to participate in this important study on psychosis & dental anxiety ⬇️. Results from this study will contribute towards better care & reducing long-standing inequalities.

@psychosisdental.bsky.social @manchester.ac.uk @fbmh-uom.bsky.social @fbmhdocacad.bsky.social

According to multiple sources this afternoon, in Parliament, Liz Kendall will announce ‘concessions’ on the welfare bill.

Do not clap.

These aren’t concessions.

This isn’t compassion.

It’s a PR fudge to mask cuts that will devastate lives.

#DisabilityRights #TakingThePIP

The Culture of Care programme is underpinned by lived experience & equity principles. We are working alongside lived experience advisors, Black Thrive Global and Neurodiverse Connection to embed anti-racist, autism-informed & trauma-informed approaches.

Illustration by Leanne Walker

Culture of Care - design of the programme The culture of care programme is designed to deliver four key interventions to embed the culture standards and commitments in every NHS commissioned, in-patient mental health service in the country.

You can find out more about the principles here: www.rcpsych.ac.uk/improving-ca...

@drleahquinlivan.bsky.social @rcpsych.bsky.social

Who Will Count as Disabled Tomorrow? The dangerous redefinition of welfare disguised as Labour's compassionate reform.

NEW FROM ME -

Britain is abandoning international medical consensus on disability.

Every other developed nation recognizes cumulative impairment as genuine severity.

We're about to become an anomaly—and the logic of 4+ suggests it was deliberate.

tinyurl.com/mwwb5xv4

Huge congratulations to our Prof Nav Kapur who has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of General Practitioners in recognition of his outstanding contributions to general practice
@merseycarenhs.bsky.social @nihr-gmpsrc.bsky.social www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/u...

best description ever.. ha

Congratulations to our amazing researcher Lana who has been awarded the Doctoral Academy’s Best Outstanding Research Contribution Award 🎉

ah fantastic news, congrats Lana and well deserved!

As a disabled person and a consultant clinical psychologist, I am writing—highly unusually for me—on LinkedIn to ask your help in stopping disability benefits cuts. What the government proposes to do with PIP, Universal Credit LCWRA and ESA is not a “reform.” It is an abandonment. It will cost lives, force people deeper into poverty, and destabilise those who are just about holding on. PIP isn’t a luxury. It helps people eat, stay warm, stay clean, work, get to hospital appointments, and hold any kind of dignity. It also unlocks vital support for unpaid carers—many of whom are disabled themselves. Universal Credit's LCWRA 'support group' helps ensure that those who would be at 'substantial risk' of a deterioration in their health, or risk to life, aren't pressured by 'claimant commitments' to work. But now, over a million people could lose that help—and the government keeps pointing to alternative options which, as a consultant, I can tell you just aren’t there. We are already seein

Put another post up on LinkedIn in an attempt to galvanise more health professionals to make noise agaisnt these deadly #DisabilityBenefits cuts. Professionals cannot, via silence, enable Labour to #TakethePIP.

Our Prof Nav Kapur, Director of @ncish.bsky.social‬ & ‪@merseycarenhs.bsky.social‬ Honorary Consultant will be speaking about Suicide in the North of England next week at the ‪@thenhsa.bsky.social‬ Northern Mental Health Network meeting – details in the flyer ‪@nihr-gmpsrc.bsky.social‬

jess the dog receiving their research cert of participation

We also had the privilege of giving @battlescars-sh.bsky.social Jess, a well deserved Certificate of Participation, thanks Jess & the brilliant people @battlescars-sh.bsky.social See you all very soon

@nihr-gmpsrc.bsky.social

Hattie, Leah and Jenny at Battle Scars HQ

Craft at Battle Scars on the wall

Photo by Emily on the wall

Painting on the wall at Battle Scars

Hattie Cant & I had a brilliant catch up with the fantastic team @battlescars-sh.bsky.social for our @nihr-gmpsrc.bsky.social KSS #selfharm research. Stunning building, with lovely people in a therapeutic, neurodivergent friendly and warm environment, that is filled with art and hope.

Greater Manchester PSRC team recognised at Making a Difference Awards 2025 Congratulations to our preventing suicide and self-harm theme for receiving a ‘Highly Commended Award’ for Outstanding Public Engagement Initiative: National/International Engagement at this year’s Ma...

Receiving this Highly Commended Award is an outstanding recognition of the excellent work carried out by our team in co-designing and delivering open-access resources to share learning and best practice, enabling more meaningful PPIE in suicide prevention research.

Read more on our blog 🔽

👏Congratulations to our team for receiving a 'Highly Commended' Making a Difference Award! This an outstanding recognition of our team's work for better PPI in suicide prevention research!

@drleahquinlivan.bsky.social
@ncish.bsky.social
@danstears.bsky.social
@fbmh-uom.bsky.social m.bsky.social

Highly commended cert for PPI in self harm in suicide prevention

Congrats to our fantastic #MS4MHr PPI team. Great recognition for all their incredible PPIE work in self-harm & suicide prevention! #MaDAwards @socialresponuom.bsky.social @ncish.bsky.social @nihr-gmpsrc.bsky.social @danstears.bsky.social

Please share!

🆕 Fully funded PhD scholarship by Scottish charity Men Matter Scotland

Social inequality and male suicide: Risk factors & interventions

Supervised by Dr Susie Bennett & myself

Closing: 11th June 2025, autumn 2025 start.

Open to UK students only.

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

A digital flyer with a bold orange and cream colour scheme titled “SIGN THE LETTER: STOP DISABILITY BENEFITS CUTS.” It highlights that the letter is led by healthcare professionals and backed by over 1,250 signatories. The flyer explains that government proposals could remove Personal Independence Payment (PIP) from 1.3 million people—nearly 40% of current claimants. Freedom of Information (FOI) data shows that 1,283,000 standard-rate and 209,000 enhanced-rate claimants could lose support under a new 4-point rule. It warns that this puts 1.49 million people at risk of losing £4,500 a year. It names those most affected: people with mental distress, neurodivergence, chronic illness, pain, and fatigue conditions. The flyer urges action with the phrase “Our formula for real impact: Personal testimony × Facts × Clinical backing = Change.” At the bottom, it includes the sign-up link (tinyurl.com/2tvfvzft) and a QR code for signing.

Please give this flyer to any healthcare provider you come across as the more signatures we get the better. Thanks to the fab
@argentas.bsky.social for the flyer idea, the qr code and being a FOi genius! #WelfareNotWarfare

TERRIFIC NEWS: Over 1,250 people have now signed our healthcare provider-led letter against brutal disability benefits cuts.🙌

Every new signature = more pressure on Parliament + press.
PERSONAL TESTIMONY × FACTS × CLINICAL BACK-UP = OUR BEST CHANCE.

✍️https://tinyurl.com/4vav3vnv

🚨 We've had 300+ signatures in under 24 hours — incredible. 🙌Let’s try to get to 600 by tomorrow. Every signature helps build pressure for parliamentary scrutiny and media coverage. Please sign + RT if you can + send to channels this oldie doesn't understand. Thank you so, so much💥

📢We have been shortlisted for the @uniofmanchester.bsky.social ‘Making a Difference Awards’ for our work in sharing best practice for public engagement in suicide prevention

Huge congrats to the team 👏

Check out our shortlisted toolkits: www.psrc-gm.nihr.ac.uk/public-invol...

#patientsafety #nihr