MEETING WITH THE JOINT COMMISIONING TEAM AND MANCHESTER MENTAL HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE TRUST WEDNESDAY, 7th July, 2010.   11.00AM.   AT MAINWAY, PARK HOUSE, HOSPITAL.                                   Patients, Carers, Link members and other interested parties need to attend!       DISEMPOWERMENT OF PATIENTS!!           Basic expenses to user groups and carers cut! Disabled patients socially...

“Were Not Mad, Were Angry”               Hundreds from around the Northwest turned out to show support for each other and in common support against cut backs to public services, the kind that have not been used in England before. Members of the public and Union representatives from nearly all of the public services unions gathered in Piccadilly Gardens to listen to speakers from a wide range of people who are involved in the delivery or Users of public services. Manche...

City aims to do ‘a bit less for a lot less’              By Andrew Bounds Published: June 21 2010 18:53 Bernard Priest is a man with a calling. It is to break the link between quality and money in public services. “It is not about cutting but improving,” he says of a five-year transformation plan under way at Manchester city council. “Most people in the public sector think that to improve something you have to spend money,” says the councillor. “We have...

Royal College of Nursing at their annual Congress in Bournemouth. Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg Supported Nurse Reissmann For Telling The Truth In his speech : The Deputy Prime Minister did not forget Manchester Nurse Karen Reissmann, who two and half years ago along with Manchester Users Network, spoke of the forthcoming nightmare of Cutbacks and closures of wards in Manchester . Read Mr Clegg’s speech which was made in the run up to the election , yet he remembered Manc...

“MANCHESTER USERS’ NETWORK” IMPORTANT MEETING!   Invite’s, Tracey Phillips of SERCO (Welfare to Work). Tuesday 1st June 2010, 10.30am is followed by a light buffet at 12.15. Held in, “Mainway” Park House Hospital. Patients’ views, suggestions needed! Common Concerns * Will we all be assessed for work next year? * Under qualified staff assessing people at Job Centres! * There is over 2.5million unemployed. It seems obvious they want to diminish our benef...

It is not everyday that you get the chance to question officials, yet that’s exactly what you may do on the 1st June 2010. when SERCO come to town, to visit Manchester Users Network in Mainway at Park House Crumpsall, Manchester. Serco: The Guardian newspaper has called Serco “probably the biggest company you’ve never heard of.” The international services provider will be explaining and taking questions about the Government’s Flexible New Deal initiative to support jobsee...

Yesterday Manchester Parliamentary Candidates kindly answered the questions of Service Users. Yesterday the Manchester Press decided to ignore every family in Manchester, not one journalist from TV, Radio or the Manchester Evening News wished to report on six MP’s who’s story you can read below. Nick Clegg the Leader of the Lib Dems this week said he supported the Services Users and openly gave his support to The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition Parliamentary candidate Nurse ...

Manchester Users Network is hosting an Election Special for Patients staff and the Public to attend so they will have a chance to ask questions of the eight Parliamentary Candidates Manchester Users Network hosts the Question Time Special The Prospected Parliamentary Candidate is as follow. Mr James C Edsberg Conservative Blackley and Broughton (has Confirmed) Mr Marc Ramsbottom Manchester Central (has confirmed) Mr Qassim Afzal Manchester Gorton (Has Confirmed) Caroline Healy    conservative...

NHS Manchester Liaison Network and a Service Users Liaison meeting will tale place upon St Patrick’s Day, at 10:30am prompt Being Chaired by Coun Martin Pagel. All Users and Members of The Public Are Warmly Welcomed Refreashments Will Be Given. Report on the MM&SCT board meeting 25th February 2010 For Manchester Users’ Network,Manchester Mental Health Watchdog and John Boyington CBE Head [MHIP] How it was! The board meetings of over 9 years, where, users, carer representative...

 We have also included a press release sent out from the Lib Dem Health spokesman Coun: John Grant (Whally Range, Manchester)  Grant, who served himself over twenty years as a Medical Doctor in the NHS issued the press release on the 17th November, 2009 in which he says  that no proper consultation has be carried out concerning Manchester Citys Councils decision to Charge some  patients for attending the Day Centres many of these patients have ended up in severe debt and have stopped their a...