My former colleague, Julia Brooking, who has died aged 61 of cancer, was one of the UK's leading mental health nursing scholars.
Having nursed from 1974, Julia's academic career took off in 1982 at King's College London, then the home of some of the country's finest nursing lecturers. She had a passion for shaping practice and policy, and it was no surprise when she was appointed to be chief nursing adviser and senior lecturer in psychiatric nursing at the Maudsley hospital and the Institute of Psychiatry. It is here that I benefited from Julia's inspirational mentoring.
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