{"id":239382,"date":"2026-01-11T11:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T11:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/239382\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T11:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T11:45:07","slug":"mental-health-nurse-forms-the-dermagen-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/239382\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental health nurse forms The Dermagen Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Lewis Mannion founded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theboltonnews.co.uk\/news\/health\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Dermagen Foundation<\/a> with the aim to combine his clinical background with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theboltonnews.co.uk\/topics\/local-government\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">governance-led<\/a> approach.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He said the organisation will focus on \u201cpublic safety, ethical standards and long-term social impact.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The foundation will operate alongside fully-compliant aesthetic practices and work with regulatory and safeguarding bodies like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theboltonnews.co.uk\/news\/crime\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Greater Manchester Police<\/a> and Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Lewis Mannion has launched a foundation to promote ethics and mental health in the aesthetics and wellness industry (Image: Lewis Mannion)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Mr Mannion said this will help support and protect the next generation of practitioners and service users.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He said his years of working in frontline mental health services inspired the foundation from a \u201cclear need for higher accountability and transparency across both healthcare-adjacent industries and public-facing wellness services.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Mr Mannion said: \u201cReal leadership isn\u2019t loud, it\u2019s disciplined, evidence-based, and built on doing the right thing when no one is watching.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cThis foundation exists to protect people \u2013 patients, practitioners, and the wider community.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cIntegrity is not branding \u2013 it\u2019s armour. And when you build on truth, your work speaks for itself.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He said that mental health advocacy is a \u201ccentral pillar of the foundation\u2019s mission\u201d and hopes that \u201cthrough education, community engagement and transparent charitable initiatives\u201d they can reduce stigma and improve early intervention and promote psychological well-being \u2013 \u201cparticularly among young people entering high-pressure industries\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lewis Mannion founded The Dermagen Foundation with the aim to combine his clinical background with a governance-led approach.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[103,61,60,410,411],"class_list":{"0":"post-239382","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}