Episode 1 - The Absolute State Of This
It's here at last, our extremely amateur attempt at podcasting just to get the ball rolling on the intersections of mental health nursing and politics. Ed Freshwater and Stuart McKenzie draw some broad...
View ArticleEpisode 2 - Christmas Bonus
Episode 2 - Christmas Bonus. Thanks to everyone who's working over the festive period, you're amazing and you are really making a huge difference.
View ArticleEpisode 3 - Strike!
Regular hosts Stuart McKenzie and Ed Freshwater are joined by nurse activist Maureen Dolan from Northern Ireland, discussing the nurses' strike action - the first time in 103 years that RCN members...
View ArticleEpisode 4 - Hancock's Half Cocked
Join regular hosts Stuart McKenzie and Ed Freshwater, with special guest Steve Ford (Editor, Nursing Times) discussing what's new where mental health nursing and politics collide. Some silliness too...
View ArticleEmergency Statement
We are addressing rumours of our imminent sale to US health interests.
View ArticleEpisode 5 - Tree Nurses
A whirlwind of content recorded and edited in a whirlwind of poor internet, political incompetency, hospital admissions and viral outbreaks. Join us for another hour of Hancock's Half Cocked, funding...
View ArticleMH Nurses Day Special part 1 - Leanne Patrick
Stuart McKenzie interviews NQN and polymath Leanne Patrick ahead of Mental Health Nurses' Day 2020
View ArticleMH Nurses Day Special part 2 - C'Mon Phil The Noyes
Staff-side rep, RNMH and RNLD Phil Noyes joins Stuart McKenzie to talk about what makes Mental Health Nursing important to him.
View ArticleMH Nurses Day Special part 3 - Jennie Lee Sims
Join Stuart McKenzie and Jennie Lee Sims as they talk about what mental health nursing means to them, ahead of Mental Health Nurses' Day on 21st February.
View ArticleMH Nurses Day special part 4 - JBW
MH Nurse and fellow podcaster John Barry Waldron joins regular host Stuart McKenzie ahead of MH Nurses' Day 2020
View ArticleEpisode 6 - The Marmot Review
Stuart & Ed reunite to discuss the findings of the recent update to the Marmot Review, and to see what happy shennanigans Matt Hancock has been up to...
View ArticleEpisode 7 - M-m-m-my Corona
Stuart & Ed take a wry look at the latest developments in UK mental health nursing, and maybe take a crack at some policy or other...
View ArticleEpisode 8 - Walk A Mile
In this episode, Ed interviews author and activist Chris Young on his experiences as a professional, service user and part-time wandering loon.
View ArticleEpisode 9 - Excel-lent
The Lockdown Hysteria starts to kick in as Stuart and Ed chat about their new sweeping executive powers...
View ArticleEpisode 10 - News of the LIVE! show
Stuart & Ed bring you news of our upcoming LIVE! show on Saturday 18th April, 9pm with comedian John Scott. The show is free on Zoom - just follow the link to register and get your password:...
View ArticleEpisode 11 - LIVE! with John Scott
Join regular RMN Behaving Badly hosts Stuart McKenzie and Ed Freshwater as they discuss topical and political issues relating to mental health nursing in the UK. In the first ever live show, they're...
View ArticleEpisode 12 - Random Blather
Ed & Stu gather round their respective microphones to talk politics and mental health amid the chaos of lockdown and Covid19, plus news of ANOTHER free comedy show we're putting on for you...
View ArticleEpisode 13 - LIVE! with the Susans
Join podcast hosts Stuart McKenzie and Ed Freshwater as they're joined by comedians Susie McCabe and Susan Morrison for a night of comment and comedy with a mental health nursing flavour. Become a...
View ArticleEpisode 14 - with Andrea Spyropoulos
Stuart & Ed are joined by legendary nurse leader Andrea Spyropoulos. We’re talking about nurse activism, where we’ve been, where we are and where we need to go. Links to stories, our blog and all...
View ArticleEpisode 15 - LIVE! with Lee & Murdo
Stuart and Ed talk mental health, nursing and politics, and are joined for this free live show by acclaimed singer/songwriter Murdo Mitchell and Britain's Got Talent winner Lee Ridley, aka Lost Voice...
View ArticleEpisode 16 - LIVE! with Darren McGarvey
Stuart and Ed are joined by award-winning author and rapper Darren McGarvey (aka Loki) to discuss his book "Poverty Safari" and the intersection of inequality, poverty and mental health in this dynamic...
View ArticleEpisode 17 - Lockdown Comedown
This episode Stuart and Ed talk about the comedown from weeks of pandemic lockdown, the challenges for nursing and public health until eventually they just lose it at the sheer ridiculousness of inept...
View ArticleEpisode 18 - with Elizabeth Anionwu
In this extra-long episode, Stuart and Ed are joined by the esteemed Elizabeth Anionwu who, after her pioneering work on sickle cell anaemia, the Mary Seacole statue and appearing on Desert Island...
View ArticleEpisode 19 with Nurses United
Welcome to Episode 19, where we interview our friends Rachel Ambrose and Anthony Johnson from Nurses United. How does a new political campaigning group work? And what can every nurse do to get...
View ArticleEpisode Meh
Where have we gone? A short note to explain. It has nothing to do with a Russian oligarch, we deny that completely.
View ArticleEpisode 20 - Yurt
Back with a brand new theme tune! After an electoral hiatus, Ed & Stuart return with a new tune and less of an idea of anything that's been happening in the real world. What's going on with pay and...
View ArticleEpisode 21 - What is it now?
Your truculent attendants return with their unique brand of righteous rage and clinical comedy. Covid, inequality and more risible Hancockery. Be sure to subscribe: Apple:...
View ArticleWorld Mental Health Day special get-together episode!
Finally your hosts have managed to record an episode in person! Ed went to Scotland for a wee break and managed to find Stuart next to a loch and, surrounded by our respective families, we recorded an...
View ArticleEpisode 22 - Stinky Pants
All about food this one - recorded the day after the egregious Matt Hancock launched yet another celebrity chef-endorsed report into how rubbish catering is in hospitals, there's yet more promises to...
View ArticleEpisode 23 - Christmas Party
Finally, a December episode and released to coincide with our first anniversary - we know, a whole year of this unutterable bobbins. THIS EPISODE CONTAINS A LOT OF SWEARING!!! We got our three...
View ArticleEpisode 24 -New Year, Same Old Toss
Your favourite lefty beardy ranty mental health nurses are back for the start of a new year and the start of a fresh assault on everything those in charge are doing wrong. SOCIAL LINKS: Website:...
View ArticleEpisode 25 - The Boys Are Back
Stuart and Ed finally manage to find an hour in their ridiculous lives to chat about the results of the third Mental Health Nurses' Day, the professional perceptions of our trade, the public...
View ArticleEpisode 26 - Will Murcott, HIN and SIM
Episode 26 - Our second series begins in earnest as we tackle a controversial new pathway that's being rolled out nationally with very little information behind it. Stuart and Ed are joined by...
View ArticleEpisode 28 - Inequality Street
Episode 28 - After an involuntary hiatus - which isn't even the fault of the hated Tories - Stuart and Ed regroup for a brief debrief, but not over cheese and wine in the garden because we're not the...
View ArticleEpisode 29 - Isolation Tank
Yes, yes, we know, sorry. In our defence, it's Thatcher's fault! And Norman Lamont, he was part of the problem. And Brexit. And... and Partygate! It was everyone else's fault! Deflect! Project! And if...
View ArticleEpisode 30 - Same Shift, Different PM
EPISODE SUMMARY: At the start of the episode, hosts SM and EF presented as euthymic, engaged in conversation, pleasant on approach. After some time, both appeared to be developing anger, speaking about...
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