John Baker
@drjohnabaker.bsky.social
Prof. Mental Health Nursing @UniversityLeeds #MHNursing #MHnurses #MentalHealth. He/him. https://medicinehealth.leeds.ac.uk/healthcare/staff/102/professor-john-baker.. https://drjohnabaker.co.uk/
Ten more interviews required! Help research how team cultures are made and experienced by NHS staff working in mental health. I am looking for participants employed in any role in NHS MH services in the UK to be interviewed (MS Teams), completely confidentially. ectf1@leicester.ac.uk #mentalhealth
👇Latest phd paper now online, where we explored how staff clinical decision-making regarding rapid tranquillisation, as reflected in clinical documentation, may vary by ethnicity in forensic services. ❤️Thanks to co-authors @drjohnabaker.bsky.social, Prof. Trine Munk-Olsen and @gildberg.bsky.social.
Ethnic Disparities in Clinical Decision‐Making for Rapid Tranquillisation in Adult Forensic Mental Health Inpatient Settings: A Qualitative Study
Rapid tranquillisation is a widely used restrictive practice, but evidence suggests that ethnic minorities are disproportionately exposed compared with majority populations. This retrospective qualit...
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🚨Professionals needed! If you are interested in taking part, I would love to hear from you. Ethics approval reference:SoMREC 3885 lnkd.in/e5GYAW6h Recruitment closes 11th September 2026 If you would like more information please email me on jcxh2599@leeds.ac.uk.
Great to see this paper from @bethlgriffin.bsky.social being blogged about by the @thementalelf.bsky.social
The Mental Elf@thementalelf.bsky.social · 3mo agoBeing kept alive is not the same as feeling safe. 🛡️ New UK interview study: former patients define psychological safety as validation, fairness and protection from lasting harm. buff.ly/1xU1JTJ #MentalHealth #InpatientCare
Celebrating the 1st year of #StaffedWards drjohnabaker.co.uk/2026/07/06/c...
Celebrating the 1st year of #StaffedWards
A year has flown by on this project, and I thought it would be good to reflect on the work we have done so far, and how I have found it as someone new to research. It feels like the research team h…
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Help needed for Lucy Davis research exploring #radicalisation and severe mental illness. Please contact her directly if interested in taking part.
Help needed for Lucy Davis research exploring #radicalisation and severe mental illness. Please contact her directly if interested in taking part.
New review about experiences of restrictive practices in CAMHS, led by Larsen 💪 Our findings point to the need for strategies extending beyond regulation toward cultural and relational approaches that promote emotional safety, agency and recovery; even when restrictive practices remain necessary 👇
Experiences of restrictive practices in child and adolescent mental health inpatient care: an integrative review - Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health
Children and adolescents admitted to psychiatric inpatient units may be subjected to restrictive practices. Such practices can have significant psychological and physical consequences for the young in...
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Monthly round-up: May & June’s reflections. drjohnabaker.co.uk/2026/07/01/m...
Monthly round-up: May & June’s reflections.
Time has just flown by… I’ve taken advantage of the nice weather and taken some days off, in part to role model a healthy work-life balance, something I have never been particularly good at! Highli…
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At the @SkellernLecture annual lecture an important calender event for mental health nursing congrats to @danwarrender.bsky.social & @benhannigan.bsky.social
Applications for our 2026 Paper Writing Retreat are open! Struggling to find the time, space & energy to work on that #mentalhealth and/or #addiction #research paper? Apply to our fully-funded retreat with dedicated writing time, tasty food & the chance to network! 👇 buff.ly/ZWozQwt
📝New interesting and important paper from @lewysbeames.bsky.social et al. 👇
More coercion, less support: A latent class analysis of post-incident reviews for mental health inpatients exposed to coercive practice
In psychiatric inpatient care, coercive practices (e.g., physical restraint) are strategies employed to support assessment, treatment and safety plans. Their use, however, is associated with physical ...
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Monthly round-up: March’s reflections. drjohnabaker.co.uk/2026/03/30/m...
Monthly round-up: March’s reflections.
Highlights from March. Firstly, presenting #WardSonar and our work on incident prediction as part of a two-day event organised by @salli which focused on reducing the use of restrictive practices i…
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Nice news, not many nurses get to be appointed as a @NIHRresearch senior investigator www.nihr.ac.uk/newly-appoin...
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New Paper led by @bracken-and-paws.bsky.social Exploring Intensive Care Nurses' Experiences and Perceptions of Patients With a Co‐Morbid Mental Health Disorder onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
<em>Nursing in Critical Care</em> | BACCN Journal | Wiley Online Library
Background Patients with a co-morbid MH disorder are roughly twice as prevalent in intensive care units (ICU) than in other general secondary care areas. Such patients may be subject to social stigm...
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New Paper: Post‐Incident Responses (Debriefing) in Mental Health Services in England: A Policy Review led by @Rachel Dickinson & @drnutmeg.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Post‐Incident Responses (Debriefing) in Mental Health Services in England: A Policy Review
Introduction Post-incident responses, also described as debriefing, are structured processes that provide opportunities to address harm and identify learning to prevent future incidents. National gu...
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Fancy doing a PhD with me and Serge Sharoff exploring how we can apply large language models to mental health care?https://phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/2436-understanding-the-application-of-large-language-models-in-the-field-of-mental-health-informatics
Another incredible day at the @ Propel Healthtech market place, making headway on my to list for #WardSonar
Thanks, Jonny Green, for the invite to the MH Nursing Research Webinar to talk about 'rejection' in our research careers. We need to be much more open, it happens so frequently (across grants, publications and with our peers), its quite harmful, but is part of the game...
Navigating individual trust research and governance approvals for #StaffedWards after a fairly lengthy process of university ethics, sponsorship review, followed by HRA (which was amazingly quick). I am surprised at how different each trust's approach to this process has been so far...
How effective is community mental health nursing? Together with my colleague Anna Hegedüs, I have published one of the largest studies in this field. Based on routine data, we utilized a relatively unknown epidemiological methodology: the mirror image design. #nursing #psychscisky
January’s publication round up drjohnabaker.co.uk/2026/01/22/j...
January’s publication round up
January has already seen a number of papers published, highlighting a huge effort by many collaborators across the world: here are some of the highlights from this month.Firstly, a result of a huge…
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Stopping Oxevision: An update and a request for your help stopoxevision.wordpress.com/2026/01/13/s...
Stopping Oxevision: An update and a request for your help
Eight NHS Trusts have stopped their use of Oxevision – following a national patient-led campaign, a statutory public inquiry and significant press coverage – now is the time for the remainder to ta…
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New publication 📚: Resistant. Insistent. Persistent. A global call for mental health nursing leadership, visibility and self-determination. Mental health nurses are nearly half the global workforce. It’s time we lead from the centre. #MentalHealthNursing onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
When harmful items are restricted in secure wards, people may turn to headbanging as self-injury 😔 This 5-year study of 421 patients found headbanging was most common in younger females with EUPD. Most incidents were rated as low harm, but the study doesn't explore why it happens. 🧵 THREAD
Rethinking our #Staffedwards project through the eyes of those with lived experience. drjohnabaker.co.uk/2026/01/07/r...
Rethinking our #Staffedwards project through the eyes of those with lived experience.
One of the highlights of the research so far has been in the Patient and Public Involvement, Engagement and Participation (PPIE) work we have undertaken. The involvement of those who have experienc…
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