“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...

  The Right Hon Nick Clegg MP, Who Many See As Possibly A Future Prime Minister ,Supports Reissmann’s Experience As A Senior NHS Nurse     Nurse training cut by degrees by Karen Reissmann The tabloids have greeted the news that all nurses will soon go to university by declaring we will become “too posh to wash”. But such backward comments ignore the real problems with the plan. While it sounds good to give nurses more education, the reality is that this is the latest step in ...

 Hello Everyone,   On May 11th Manchester Users Network begins its campaign. You can support us by forwarding this article to everyone you know. Check out the website www.manchesterusersnetwork.org.uk for regular updates. Write back your opinions to us and or even attend our meeting at:   Park House Hospital Delauneys Rd Crumpsall Manchester M8 5RB   It will take place on May 11th in the Therapy Centre.   The aim of Manchester Users Network (MUN) is to support users and ex-users of psychiat...

 WASHINGTON: Scientists at Columbia University Medical Center have found yet another reason why eating fish can be beneficial. Dr. Richard J. Deckelbaum, Director of the Columbia Institute of Human Nutrition, has found that a diet rich in fish oils can prevent the accumulation of fat in the aorta, the main artery leaving the heart. The researcher says that the beneficial actions of fish oil, which block cholesterol build-up in arteries, are even found at high fat intakes. Fish are generally r...

There is a mental health liaison nurse service in the Accident & Emergency department at North Manchester General Hospital, Manchester Royal Infirmary and Wythenshawe Hospital, where people can present in crisis for assessment and signposting to other services. This is available from 9am-10pm.  Crisis Point in Levenshulme can provide  short term crisis intervention Tel : 225 9500   Samaritans Tel : 0845 790 9090.                                      �...

 ”SUPPORT FOR DOCTOR ADAM OSBORNE FROM PATIENTS “    A Patient contacted the Manchester Users Network last evening (27 th November) after reading our story, first published on the M.U.N website on the 26th November, she asked that we be understanding of the young Doctor who she said had treated her in the past and of  whom she had found to be really understanding of her problems  “He really understood me and I knew he was really taking me for real, you know a really nice blok...

By: Warwick Rendell Your partner still wants you to be able to be there for her. The kids still want to get hugs from you - and they still need to eat. The boss still wants you to output widgets. The bank still wants you to make payments on the credit cards you used to survive when things went pear-shaped last time. The landlord still wants his rent. There are two ways things can go from here. Sometimes with a good night’s sleep (or two, or more), and some looking after yourself, things w...

By: Paul Reed           For good mental health attend the INFORMATION MEETING!! Tomorrow Wednesday, 3rd December, 10:30am. BE THERE OR BE SQUARE! Important Information, rights & news for patients! Wednesday 03rd December, 2008, Time, 10.30am. Held in the, USER’S OFFICE (Next door the Therapy Centre.) Park House Hospital. ALL PATIENTS WELCOME. “We need to support and help each other”. For further details Tel (Alan) Tel 918 4343 ...

  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”  Meeting for Patients   Wednesday, 17th September 2008, 10.30am. Invite ADRIAN GALLOWAY   {Interim Manager in charge of emergency services}    And  STUART LONG  Crisis Resolution Home Treatment.   To be discussed:  Emergency Services & Crisis Resolution!! Held in the Blue Room.  (Beech Ward)  Park House Hospital.    ALL PATIENTS WELCOME     “We need to support  and help each other.”   Tea & Biscuits Available    Further details...