A mental health teaching centre for medical undergraduates has been shortlisted for an NHS health education award after encouraging its students to listen and learn from those who know best: the people who use mental health services.

The Psychiatry Teaching Unit (PTU) has been selected as a finalist at Health Education England’s 2017 Excellence in Education Awards, for its innovative approach to educating the psychiatrists of tomorrow – by arranging for them to be taught and assessed by people with personal experience of mental ill health.