Toby has 26 years’ experience of working with people with severe mental health problems, and expertise in the fields of mental health in later life, dementia, and mental capacity, with an emphasis on self-management, peer support, quality of life, rights, social inclusion and empowerment. Toby has written articles on values based practice (VBP), co-authored a book on values based practice and mental health and mental capacity law for psychiatric nurses, produced VBP ‘key card’ information for the social care workforce through Skills for Care and is currently co-authoring a book on VBP and dementia.