Mental health work is 'just 'firefighting now', author tells festival audience

Id never go back to acute wards today, says Nathan Filer, ex-nurse who won Costa book prize

Nathan Filer, the mental health nurse who this year won the Costa book award for his debut novel which has as its main character a young schizophrenic, has revealed he would not go back to working on acute wards.

Mental health services are in a real mess at the moment, he told the Edinburgh international book festival. It is increasingly difficult, especially in acute settings, for nurses it is kind of firefighting now.

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