Involving mental health service users in student education

Involving mental health service users in student education. This is an extended version of the article published in Nursing Times. This article describes an initiative that involved service users sharing their personal experiences of illness and mental health services with nursing students. Their experiences were delivered through the medium of story telling with opportunities for students to ask questions. The article will focus on the impact this has had on students and on service users by examining feedback comments from both groups about their experiences.