Jeanie Gallacher Community Mental Health Nurse Annandale and Eskdale I work in the Community Mental Health Service in Annandale and Eskdale, a scenic rural area in Dumfries and Galloway. We are based in the town of Annan but cover small towns and villages across a wide and remote landscape. There is a lot of travel across the locality where I oversee mental health services. We…
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Lesley Wylie
Lesley Wylie Lesley Wylie is the manager of a dementia specialist home in Bishopton run by the charity Erskine, who have been caring for Scotland’s veterans since 1916. Proud of the relationship-centred culture within the Erskine Park Home, Lesley is motivated to promote care home nursing role as an innovative and developing area of practice.…
Coleen Mcleod
Coleen Mcleod Coleen Mcleod works as a Substance Misuse/Mental Health Liaison Nurse for NHS Western Isles and is persistent in her approach to providing and enhancing recovery care across Lewis and Harris. My Journey I didn’t start off wanting to be a nurse. My family are all nurses and I thought I wanted to do…
Gerry Hastie
Gerry Hastie A passionate advocate for community mental health nursing, Gerry Hastie has been working in the role with NHS Fife since 2004. He is proud to be a nurse that colleagues seek out for advice and support given his broad knowledge and clinical expertise. My Journey Leaving school, I thought I had wanted to…
Tracey Clusker
Tracey Clusker Tracey Clusker has worked within substance misuse teams for the last 12 years. In her current role as a Team Manager with NHS Lothian based in Dalkeith, she is focused on reducing health inequalities while delivering a high-quality service to the recovery community. My Journey I have always worked with people – as…
Rachel McReady
Rachel McReady Rachel in the news Rachel launches recovery road map in Dundee To Cheryl Ferguson, Dundee’s Steeple Church Parish Nurses are “my wee adopted mammies”. To others, they are problem-solvers, shoulders to cry on, and even life-savers. “They’ve done a lot for me and every single person who comes through this door,” says Cheryl.…
Kelvin Frew
Kelvin Frew Kelvin in the news Kelvin’s choir launches new charity single for mental health Community Mental Health Nurse Kelvin Frew is team leader of the NHS Dumfries & Galloway Crisis, Assessment and Treatment Service. As well as managing the service, and working part time on the crisis response team, he carries a small caseload…
Jess Davidson
Jess Davidson Jess in the news Jess awarded top honour The custody suite below St Leonard’s Police Station in Edinburgh can be an intimidating environment: windowless corridors are lined both sides with thick metal doors, well-worn whiteboards bearing the names of the people behind them. There is a busy charge bar, where people who have…
