Dr Sheila Hardy
GP & Primary Care Trainer
In her role as a trainer for the Charlie Waller Trust, Sheila has developed and delivers mental health and wellbeing training to nurses and allied health care professionals in primary care, and mentors nurses undertaking projects. She is part of a small team at the University of Hull evaluating a Big Lottery mental health project. Sheila has worked for a foundation trust as Senior Research Fellow and an academic health science network as an education fellow. She has twenty years of experience in primary care where her clinical work included consulting with patients with physical and mental health problems. Sheila is keen to improve the care of people with mental health issues and has carried out research in this area. She writes educational articles for nursing journals and has co-authored and authored books and book chapters. Sheila has sat on several national expert reference and steering groups. In 2018 she won an Award of Merit from the Royal College of Nursing for her work on the physical health of people with mental illness.
