PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:
RMN: (1981)
Certificate in Counselling (1991)
Diploma in Community Psychiatric Nursing (1993)
Diploma in Human Givens (2008)
MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL BODIES:
1). Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) (UK) (December 1981)
2). Staff & Educational Development Association (SEDA): December 2007
3). Human Givens Institute (August 2008)
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS:
Master of Research (2009)
Post Graduate Certificate in Higher Education (2008)
Postgraduate Certificate in Health Service Management (2001)
BA (Hons) Community Mental Health Care (1994)
City & Guilds 730 Teaching & Assessing Part 2(1991)
City & Guilds 730 Teaching and Assessing Part 1 (1990)
RESEARCH INVOLVEMENT:
1998-2002 Mental Health in Primary Care Project (Tees & North East Yorkshire NHS Trust in partnership with The Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health)
2004-2008: Evaluation of Graduate Primary Mental Health Worker Training – HEI Partnership (North West)
2006 Review of training programmes for GPMHWs – national HEI programme leaders group
2008: Review of PICAL services for Wirral PCT
2009: Dissertation for Master in Research Attitudes to Mental Illness: a comparable study between first and third year undergraduate general nursing students LJMU
2010: Report to Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Feeling Down ‘Down Under’: an exploration of mental health care in rural and remote areas of Queensland
CONTRIBUTIONS TO CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS/SYMPOSIA:
1999-2004 Numerous presentations regarding NHS Beacon Service, - Mental Health Primary Care Conferences & Workshops and to PCT Boards, presenting on the Scarborough Model of Primary Mental Health Care.
1999-2004 Facilitated mental health training workshops for primary care staff in
2002 Presented at the First World Congress for Psychiatric Nurses, Vancouver The Scarborough Model of Primary Mental Health.
2004 2nd Annual Graduate Primary Mental Health Conference, Coventry A North West Higher Education Collaborative Approach to training Graduate Primary Mental Health Workers
September 2005 International Nursing Research Conference, Yantai, China Using an education programme to support the introduction of new mental health services in primary care
March 2007 papers x 2; poster presentation x 1 - The 4th Primary Mental Health Care Conference
The Graduate Mental Health Worker programme: a view from Higher Education training providers
Understanding the psychological needs of individuals with long-term physical health problems
2008 Challenging traditional approaches to the treatment of depression Primary Care Live
2009: IAPT Road show (North West) Charlie Waller Memorial Trust: Mental Health trainers
CONSULTANCIES:
2003-4 Secondment to NIMHE North East: Implementing the Introduction of the Graduate Primary Mental Health Workers
2004-2005 Central Liverpool PCT – Service Review and Planning
Reviewer: Scientific Journals International July 2007-2010
Sage Publications (July 2007- 2010)
2008/2010: Advisory Board, Primary Care Live
PUBLICATIONS:
Fisher D (2000) Joined-up Working” Nursing Times 24/2/2000
Fisher D (2002) Community Nursing on a Skidoo? MHN November 2002
Lyons C. Baguley C. Fisher D (2007) Workforce Development and Mental Health Service Delivery Progress in Neurology & Psychiatry 11:1 Jan/Feb 2007 p 41-43
Baguley C. Duggan A. Fisher D. Hutnick N. Knight J. Lyons C. Morris T. O’Connor H. Rushforth D. Trapp A. Whyte M. (2007) Mental Health Worker Programme: a view from Higher Education training providers The
Fisher D. Lyons C (2007) PCGMHW workplace activity 12 months post qualifying Progress in Neurology & Psychiatry 11:5 May/June 2007 p31-36
Fisher D (2008) Simple yet Effective: challenging the traditional approach in Mental Health in Primary Care (Cohen A Editor) Royal College of General Practitioners
Cohen A (Ed) (2008) Delivering Mental Health in Primary Care: an evidence-based approach. Fisher D Chapter 13: Simple Yet Effective: challenging the traditional approach Royal College of General Practitioners
Harrison N., Lyons C., Baguley C., Fisher D. (2009) An educational evaluation of supervisor and mentor experiences when supporting Primary Care Graduate Mental Health Workers J. of Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing 16 p416-423
Fisher D (2010) Feeling Down Down Under: an exploration of mental health care in rural and remote Queensland http://wcmt.org.uk/reports/678_1.pdf