Ben Hannigan is Professor of Mental Health Nursing in the School of Healthcare Sciences at Cardiff University. He uses ideas and methods from across the health and social sciences to study mental health systems, and has researched and written in these interrelated areas: policy; service organisation and delivery; work, roles and values; the characteristics and wellbeing of the workforce; practitioner education; and user and carer experiences. Ben is an active, founding, member of Mental Health Nurse Academics UK. Ben’s workplace website is at http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/people/view/39197-hannigan-ben, and a list of his publications can be found at http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2512-6721. His personal blog is at https://benhannigan.com/, and he tweets via @benhannigan
Ben Hannigan summarises a recent systematic review exploring the prevalence, risk factors and interventions for suicide and self-harm in nurses and midwives.
Ben Hannigan reports on a recent RCT of the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of a specialist depression service versus usual specialist mental health care to manage persistent depression.
Ben Hannigan writes his debut blog on the CADET cluster RCT, which investigates the clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of collaborative care for depression in UK primary care.
