“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...

By: Barbara Goulden IF you are a trade unionist working in the NHS then surely your responsibilities extend to speaking out in the interests of the wider public, not simply on the pay and conditions of union members. This is the core belief that kept sacked mental health nurse Karen Reissmann strong during her 17-month battle to win back her job. Last week (Jan 28) her claim to a Manchester industrial tribunal of unfair dismissal was suddenly stopped and settled out of court. This shocked some ...

Mental Health Services: Hospital Beds   Below was given  in Written answers in The House of Commons on Thursday 20th November 2008, the amount for Mental Health Trust’s belonging to the NHS to give dignity to its patients seems an amount of monies to be a sum which needs every MP and especially our Manchester MP’s to question Ann Keen’s Department figures, we certainly question the amount given in the House to be not credible given the number of patients involved. Norman...

  The following article was sent to me by www.mind1st.co.uk . I have been using the oils for over three years and have had no depression, after suffering for over ten years with it. Prof. B.Puri the MRI Consultant at the Hammersmith Hospital has shown a patient before not using 90% fish oil capsules and then shown what happens to the  patient’s brain after a short term use of 90% EPA fish oils, no depression in all cases of people suffering Bi-Polar Disorder. Some years ago I arrange for P...

Manchester Users Network & Manchester Mental Health Watchdog Joint Meeting.  John Boyington CBE To Explain and Interpret the ‘Mental Health Services in Manchester’ Report – 27th August 2008  The Manchester Users Network and Manchester Mental Health Watchdog joint meeting had been organised to give service users and members of the public, the opportunity to gain a greater understanding of the ‘Mental Health Services in Manchester’ report and what this means for Manchester.  The...

MANCHESTER USERS NETWORK & MANCHESTER MENTAL HEALTH WATCH DOG MEETING Invite    JOHN BOYINGTON CBE. Explains £24.6m (27%) of the total NHS mental health spend in Manchester is spent on services outside of Manchester . Click here to read the full and  shocking report. (For a Copy of the report Please contact MUN)       JOHN BOYINGTON CBE. Explains and interprets the  report on Mental Health Services in Manchester.  (Jointly commissioned by the PCT & Manchester City Council....