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Dr.Dan Doran

@drdandoran.bsky.social
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Assistant professor, nurse, carer, speaker, researcher, manager. Privileged to work with people enduring mental health difficulties. Opinions my own.

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Dr Dan Warrender @danwarrender.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Response to the NMC 2026 consultation and survey around practice learning, from the campaign group ‘mental health deserves better’. mentalhealthdeservesbetter.wordpress.com/2026/07/28/m... #MentalHealthNursing #MentalHealth #Nursing #NurseEducation #NursingandMidwiferyCouncil
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Mental Health Deserves Better: Response to Nursing and Midwifery Council Consultation on Practice Learning in UK Nurse Education
Dear Nursing and Midwifery Council, This is a response to your 2026 consultation and survey around practice learning (NMC 2026), from the campaign group ‘mental health deserves better’, which seeks…
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Steve Hardy @stevehardyldn.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
A sharp decline in the number of learning disability nurses across the UK is leaving some of the most vulnerable people without the tailored care they need, according to a major new report from the Royal College of Nursing.
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Learning disability nursing crisis risks widening health inequalities, warns RCN | National Health Executive
A sharp decline in the number of learning disability nurses across the UK is leaving some of the most vulnerable people without
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Scottish Recovery Network @scotrecoverynet.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
For 20+ years, Julie Repper has been helping to shape recovery-focused mental health services & develop peer roles. Watch her reflections on systems change, lived experience & creating a mental health system that values peer support. ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxtc... #PeerSupportScot #FilmFriday
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Transforming Scotland's Mental Health System with Julie Repper
YouTube video by Scottish Recovery Network
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National Survivor User Network @nsunnews.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
"The burden shifts back onto individuals to self-regulate within harmful conditions rather than asking why those conditions exist in the first place." Ria Spooner on mindfulness, commodification, and the limits of body-based advice. www.nsun.org.uk/just-tune-in...
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“Just tune into your body”: mindfulness, commodification, and the limits of body-based advice.
What happens when your body doesn’t feel like a safe place, or when you don’t feel able to trust it?
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tadhg64.bsky.social @tadhg64.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
www.theguardian.com/society/2026... Are they thoug? Last 3 paragraphs suggest something else. Just sayin’!
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New study casts doubt on reliability of mental health diagnosis interviews
Diagnostic interviews seen as ‘gold standard’ vary in reliability from condition to condition, study says
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Steve Hardy @stevehardyldn.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
How learning disability nursing can address health inequalities and workforce challenges
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How learning disability nursing can address health inequalities and workforce challenges
How learning disability nursing can address health inequalities and workforce challenges
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Steve Hardy @stevehardyldn.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
‘Learning disability nurses play a vital role in advocating for change’
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'Learning disability nurses play a vital role in advocating for change'
Emily Edwards and Fiona Cust on what can be done to help support those who are neurodivergent in education.
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Dr.Dan Doran @drdandoran.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
A new article out today in the Arts & Health Journal. Described as "inspiring and concerning", I hope you enjoy the read.
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What does it really take to facilitate a creative writing group for well-being? This new Arts & Health paper takes a closer look at the people behind the work - and finds a picture that is both… |...
What does it really take to facilitate a creative writing group for well-being? This new Arts & Health paper takes a closer look at the people behind the work - and finds a picture that is both inspir...
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Dr.Dan Doran @drdandoran.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
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Great to have taught this engaging and insightful group of mental health nursing students today; everyone contributing to an important session. It's been a real pleasure to help them develop their...
Great to have taught this engaging and insightful group of mental health nursing students today; everyone contributing to an important session. It's been a real pleasure to help them develop their nur...
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Dr.Dan Doran @drdandoran.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Research by Gary Payne and Mark Pearson in School of Health Sciences @uniofnottingham.bsky.social explored the views of mental health nurse academics on the ‘specialism versus genericism’ debate and concluded that strong leadership is key to protect the future of the specialism.
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Dr.Dan Doran @drdandoran.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
No health without peace - something I very much believe in. Peace takes many forms, from the psychological to the global, and all the connections in between. hubs.li/Q03ZBP-R0
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No health without peace
What will be the most pressing health challenge of 2026? Climate change? Artificial intelligence? Pandemics? Non-communicable diseases? These issues will continue to shape health and medicine. Yet acr...
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Dr.Dan Doran @drdandoran.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Welcome back Andrew. Sounds like a great presentation for the conference.
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Joanne Bosanquet MBE RN 🦋 @mrsbosanquet.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
I’ve been thinking 🤔🥺 www.linkedin.com/posts/joanne...
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First out of the blocks was Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd and now we have the fast follower University of Nottingham planning to cut various nursing programmes from their existing… | Joanne ...
First out of the blocks was Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd and now we have the fast follower University of Nottingham planning to cut various nursing programmes from their existing portfolio....
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Dr.Dan Doran @drdandoran.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Please sign if you don’t agree with the University of Nottingham suspending the training of mental health and children’s nurses in Nottingham. This is going to have a huge impact on the care of vulnerable children and adults in Nottingham. c.org/2kbcdjn9Yp
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Stop the suspension of Uni of Nottingham Mental Health & Child Nursing + Health Promotion
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
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Dr.Dan Doran @drdandoran.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Comments from our brilliant new Dean here on proposed suspension and possible loss of #mentalhealth #child & #healthpromotion courses at the University of Nottingham.
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As Head of School of Health Sciences and Professor of Nursing at the University of Nottingham, I am devastated about the proposals to suspend courses for 26/27 intake in health promotion and public… |...
As Head of School of Health Sciences and Professor of Nursing at the University of Nottingham, I am devastated about the proposals to suspend courses for 26/27 intake in health promotion and public he...
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Dr.Dan Doran @drdandoran.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Faced with a growing genericism of mental health nursing courses more should be done to develop curricula that prepares MH students more fully for practice. journals.rcni.com/mental-healt...
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Examining current challenges and future potential in mental health nurse education
Examining current challenges and future potential in mental health nurse education
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Dr.Dan Doran @drdandoran.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
#ClimateCrisis affects everyone. Ttlaking meaningful steps to inspire #activehope may reduce rising mental ill-health, solastalgia, anxiety, and a range of other experiences associated with #climateemergency. Read more here. Free for 30 days... journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Peace in mind: responding to mental ill health associated with the climate crisis through personally meaningful change - K Burns, D Doran, M Pearson, 2025
Aims: To explore the principles of the Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) framework in relation to climate change as a global threat to mental health. To intr...
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Dr.Dan Doran @drdandoran.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Please could I be added?
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Dr.Dan Doran @drdandoran.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Please could I be added John. #MHNursing!
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Dr.Dan Doran @drdandoran.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I think you mean pasties. :-)
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Dr.Dan Doran @drdandoran.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
"...you feel like the one that got left behind." Some research I did a while back on #friendship and #mentalhealth. Shameful plug I know, but seems relevant for why I guess some folks have made the move to "here". journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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‘... You feel like the one that got left behind’: a narrative inquiry into the friendships of people who have endured mental health difficulties - D Doran, A Edgley, T Stickley, 2023
Aims: To explore insights between friendship and mental health through a critical narrative inquiry. To conceptualise friendship and inform public health approa...
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Dr.Dan Doran @drdandoran.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Thanks again!
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Dr.Dan Doran @drdandoran.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Exactly what I was looking for, and could not work out how to do! Thank you!
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Dr.Dan Doran @drdandoran.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
#Nottingham is a "city of literature", part of UNESCO's creative cities network. Proud of these public spaces and our local libraries.
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Dr.Dan Doran @drdandoran.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
I took the leap and am appreciating the calm here. Wish I knew what to recommend as well but am a novice. (I am all about #mentalhealth #liberationhealth and #nursing if they're of interest).
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Dr.Dan Doran @drdandoran.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Quoting my colleague Dr.Charley Baker... "Proud of this one...cowritten & including people with people with #livedexperience, students & newly qualified #mentalhealth #nurses." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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“It's really important work…and celebrating that, I think, is really important” – co‐produced qualitative research into future of mental health nurse education
The education of mental health nurses has long remained a contentious topic in the UK and internationally. This research seeks to gather the perspectives of those directly affected by mental health n...
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Dr.Dan Doran @drdandoran.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Hopefully some better news on the horizon for #mentalhealth #nursing in the UK... www.nursingtimes.net/workforce/go...
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Government to publish new NHS workforce plan in 2025
The Labour government has committed to developing a new long-term workforce plan for the NHS to ...
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