Title: Head of Education
Department: Institute of Mental Health
Location: University of Nottingham Innovation Park
Phone: 01157484324
Email: mark.holmes@nottshc.nhs.uk
Research Interests: Substance misuse; Digital technology
Teaching Interests: Substance misuse; Digital technology; Alcohol related liver disease
Biography: Mark is a Mental Health Nurse with a First Class BSc specialising in substance misuse, with NMC recognised Specialist Practitioner status in Mental Health. He has twenty-seven years nursing experience excelling in a variety of specialist areas. He has expertise in innovation, leadership, training and service development. He strongly believes that working with and influencing policy makers and commissioners not only leads to income generation to build services, but the ultimate aim of ensuring improved patient care. He shares his expertise across disciplines and heavily involve those with lived experiences in services that he works in. This ethos is supported by publications (that have been cited in the Lancet and by NICE and Public Health England (PHE)), conference presentations, attendance at judging and expert panels (including WHO, PHE).
Mark leads the Centre of Education at the Institute of Mental Health, Nottingham. The mission of the Institute is to advance mental healthcare through excellence in research and education.
Author's Works
- Are your employees just surviving rather than thriving at work?, 2018
- Multi-agency care for people with alcohol-related long-term conditions, 2017
- WHO alcohol brief intervention training manual for primary care, 2017
- Tears and laughter in the hall: Hearing the human story, 2017
- Mental health and hepatitis C, 2017
- Are strategies on alcohol-related liver disease just talk?, 2016
- Using online tools to treat alcohol misuse, 2016
- "Missed opportunities" Five steps to preventing and reducing alcohol related physical health harm, 2016
- Martini man or craft beer connoisseur? Premium drinking can still be problem drinking, 2016
- Alcohol Concern's Blue Light Project working with change resistant drinkers: The project manual, 2015