Press releases
Ceremony to mark new Institute building
Thursday, 03 May 2012
The Institute of Mental Health is to officially open its new £7 million building in Nottingham on Friday 25 May 2012.
Professor Dame Sally C. Davies, Chief Medical Officer and Chief Scientific Adviser at the Department of Health will perform the official opening ceremony.
New arts exhibition opens
Monday, 28 November 2011
A new arts exhibition has been launched at the Institute of Mental Health in Nottingham in association with City Arts Nottingham.
Diversity is the fifth exhibition staged by the Institute and City Arts and can be seen at the Institute’s offices in the Sir Colin Campbell Building on the University of Nottingham’s Innovation Park.
Launch of the Centre for Health and Justice
Tuesday, 15 November 2011
The Institute of Mental Health is launching a new Centre for Health and Justice at the end of this month – a major national development in the understanding of and provision for mentally disordered offenders.
The Centre will bring together research, policy and practice in the fields of mental and general health care and criminal justice, through an innovative multi-disciplinary approach. It will carry out clinically focused and practically designed research to provide the evidence base to build a new generation of services.Dementia play showcases new research
Monday, 25 July 2011
The Institute of Mental Health, with colleagues from partner organisations, has come up with a novel way of publicising new research into the role of unqualified healthcare assistants in the hospital care of people with dementia. They have commissioned a new play by Nottingham-based theatre company ‘Meeting Ground’ as a way of making their findings much more accessible to a wide range of people, within the healthcare sector and beyond.Research study reveals profile for female drink-drivers
Friday, 27 May 2011
Female drink-drivers are more likely to be older, better-educated and divorced, widowed or separated, research has shown.
The study by academics at the Institute of Mental Health found that emotional factors and mental health problems were common triggers in alcohol-related offences committed by women.
Read more: Research study reveals profile for female drink-drivers
Ceremony to mark new Institute building
Monday, 09 May 2011
Building work on a new £7 million home for the Institute of Mental Health in Nottingham will be officially marked in May with a ground-breaking ceremony.
The Institute, currently based within the Sir Colin Campbell Building on The University of Nottingham’s Jubilee Campus, will be moving 200 metres along Triumph Road to bespoke new accommodation on the campus.
Alastair Campbell supports Mental Health Research UK dinner
Tuesday, 11 January 2011
In his award winning documentary ‘Cracking Up’ he spoke candidly about his own breakdown. His novel ‘All in the Mind’ has also won considerable praise.
Alastair Campbell, best known for his role as Tony Blair’s spokesman, Press Secretary and Director of Communications and Strategy, firmly believes that speaking openly about mental illness helps to de-stigmatise it.
He will be talking about his own experiences at the High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire’s fundraising dinner — to support research funded by Mental Health Research UK (MHRUK) and carried out at The University of Nottingham’s Institute of Mental Health. Alastair Campbell is joined at the event, on Wednesday January 12 2011 at The University of Nottingham, by George Hugh-Jones QC, a barrister specialising in clinical negligence and professional disciplinary work at the General Medical Council and General Dental Council.
Read more: Alastair Campbell supports Mental Health Research UK dinner
Partnership pledge signed
Monday, 15 November 2010
Leaders from the Institute of Mental Health (IMH) in Nottingham and the Centre for Mental Health, based in London, took time out from the Institute’s recent Foundation Anniversary Annual Lunch to mark a new partnership agreement between the two organisations.
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Expo event to promote mental health in China
Monday, 11 October 2010
The pressure of urban life in 21st century cities and its impact on mental health are among the biggest social issues faced by modern societies. Shanghai Expo 2010 provides the venue for The University of Nottingham’s latest seminar to address these problems and different care solutions that will promote social and economic sustainability.
Novels plus anatomy - how humanities can improve healthcare
Friday, 13 August 2010
Doctors and other healthcare professionals should use the arts and humanities to develop their empathic skills and improve mental healthcare practice, according to a new book.
Mental Health, Psychiatry and the Arts, edited by Dr Victoria Tischler in the Division of Psychiatry at The University of Nottingham, argues that visual art, poetry writing, novels and music can be used in the education of medical and nursing students and other mental health professionals to improve their understanding of the patient experience.
Read more: Novels plus anatomy - how humanities can improve healthcare
Institute announces new collaboration
Monday, 09 August 2010
The Institute of Mental Health Nottingham (IMH) has unveiled a new formal agreement with the Centre for Mental Health (formally the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health). The IMH is a partnership between Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust and the University of Nottingham.
China and UK join forces to develop research into mental health
Friday, 11 June 2010
The Institute of Mental Health (IMH) Nottingham at The University of Nottingham has agreed a formal agreement with Shanghai Mental Health Centre to enable academic exchanges of up to three months.
The aim of this reciprocal fellowship scheme is to develop and sustain joint research between Chinese mental health researchers and Nottingham IMH — which is a partnership between Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust and the University.
Read more: China and UK join forces to develop research into mental health
Healthcare assistants lead in dementia care
Tuesday, 08 June 2010
Healthcare assistants play an unacknowledged managerial role in the care of dementia patients, research has revealed.
The study, from Nottingham University and funded by a Department of Health research programme found HCAs provided the type of care most important to dementia patients themselves and created a “positive therapeutic environment”.
The National Audit Office has estimated over half a million people in England have dementia and expect this to double in the next 30 years – posing questions around the workforce and skill mix requirements to meet that need.Behavioural rewards 'work like drugs' for ADHD
Tuesday, 20 April 2010
The brains of children with attention-deficit disorders respond to on-the-spot rewards in the same way as they do to medication, say scientists.
A Nottingham University team measured brain activity as children played a computer game, offering extra points for less impulsive behaviour.
Their findings, published in Biological Psychiatry, could mean lower doses of drugs such as Ritalin in severe cases.
