A Registered Mental Health Nurse by background being in practice for 25 plus years and is currently the Head of Service for Urgent Care for Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Trust. He has a wealth of experience across acute and urgent care mental health services, having started his career within inpatient acute wards, and progressed his practice through roles in establishing Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment team and more recently the development of Mental Health Urgent Assessment Centres and Psychiatric Clinical Decision Units. He has been pivotal in developing pathways and reducing the number of inappropriate out of area placements to practically zero. Gareth is passionate that patients are at the centre of all decision making and is an advocate for patients receiving the best care possible and is actively engaged with patient experience, recognising the power and importance of the patient voice through true coproduction.