Campaigner and founder of the national Star Wards mental health project, Marion Janner, has been awardedan OBE for services to mental healthcare in the New Year Honours List.
Marion founded Star Wards in October 2006 following her own experience as a detained inpatient at St Ann's Hospital in Tottenham.
Star Wards works with mental health trusts to enhance mental health inpatients' daily experiences and treatment outcomes and aims to share excellence in care.
Marion says: "St Ann's is not only the inspiration for Star Wards, but provides me with extensive, expert support as an inpatient and outpatient, enabling me to cope with my illness and run the project. Getting an OBE is a reflection that with tenacious specialist professionals, someone with what was historically regarded as an untreatable mental illness (borderline personality disorder) can make a significant contribution to others."
Star Wards works with mental health trusts to enhance mental health inpatients' daily experiences and treatment outcomes and aims to share excellence in care.
Marion says: "St Ann's is not only the inspiration for Star Wards, but provides me with extensive, expert support as an inpatient and outpatient, enabling me to cope with my illness and run the project. Getting an OBE is a reflection that with tenacious specialist professionals, someone with what was historically regarded as an untreatable mental illness (borderline personality disorder) can make a significant contribution to others."
Hi Marion
Sending you our heartiest congratulations. What an absolutely superb achievement.
If my grand-mother was alive she would be bursting with pride.
Well done.
Lynn xxx
(Mrs L's grand-daughter)