MUN Next Meeting Will Be Held On Wednesday 10th January, 2018 @ 1:30pm
INFORMATION MEETING!! Important Information, rights & news for patients! Wednesday 10th January 2018, 1.30pm Held at the “Users’ Office” Park House Hospital.…
Mental health patients are being forced to travel hundreds of miles for treatment
A lack of hospital beds means NHS bosses are having to pay for in-patients from Greater Manchester to be treated across the country - at a £9m cost to the region’s taxpayers…
Mental health patients and police face ‘scandalous’ wait for treatment
"Scandalous" waits to get mental health patients access to treatment are letting down vulnerable people and wasting police resources, an MP said. A Freedom of Information request by Lib Dem MP Norman Lamb found some patients detained by police faced long waits for doctors, beds or ambulances.…
Service User’s Christmas Party 2017 Stanley Street Openshaw All Welcome !
The Service Users Christmas Party will be held once again on Thursday 14th December 2017 at Stanley Street Working Men’s Club Openshaw 7:30pm until 11 pm…
Alarm over restraint of NHS mental health patients
Patients in mental health units were physically restrained by staff more than 80,000 times last year in Britain, including 10,000 who were held face down or given injections to subdue them, new NHS figures show.…
Police reveal ‘unlawful’ mental health detentions
By Ross HawkinsPolitical correspondent, BBC Radio 4 Today Police…
MUN Next Meeting Will Be Held On Wednesday 10th January, 2018 @ 1:30pm
INFORMATION MEETING!! Important Information, rights & news for patients! Wednesday 10th January 2018, 1.30pm Held at the “Users’ Office” Park House Hospital.…
Mental health patients are being forced to travel hundreds of miles for treatment
A lack of hospital beds means NHS bosses are having to pay for in-patients from Greater Manchester to be treated across the country - at a £9m cost to the region’s taxpayers…
MUN Next Meeting Will Be Held On Wednesday 10th January, 2018 @ 1:30pm
INFORMATION MEETING!! Important Information, rights & news for patients! Wednesday 10th January 2018, 1.30pm Held at the “Users’ Office” Park House Hospital.…
Mental health patients are being forced to travel hundreds of miles for treatment
A lack of hospital beds means NHS bosses are having to pay for in-patients from Greater Manchester to be treated across the country - at a £9m cost to the region’s taxpayers…
Mental health patients and police face ‘scandalous’ wait for treatment
"Scandalous" waits to get mental health patients access to treatment are letting down vulnerable people and wasting police resources, an MP said. A Freedom of Information request by Lib Dem MP Norman Lamb found some patients detained by police faced long waits for doctors, beds or ambulances.…
Service User’s Christmas Party 2017 Stanley Street Openshaw All Welcome !
The Service Users Christmas Party will be held once again on Thursday 14th December 2017 at Stanley Street Working Men’s Club Openshaw 7:30pm until 11 pm…
Alarm over restraint of NHS mental health patients
Patients in mental health units were physically restrained by staff more than 80,000 times last year in Britain, including 10,000 who were held face down or given injections to subdue them, new NHS figures show.…
Police reveal ‘unlawful’ mental health detentions
By Ross HawkinsPolitical correspondent, BBC Radio 4 Today Police…
BIG INCREASE IN PHYSICAL, SEXUAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ABUSE AND NEGLECT OF ELDERLY IN SALFORD
There's been a big increase in cases of abuse concerning Salford's vulnerable and elderly people, rising from 492 referrals in 2015/16, to 731 in 2016/17, up by 33%.…
Compulsory mental health care orders at 15-year high
The number of compulsory mental health treatments in Scotland has hit its highest level in at least 15 years, according to a watchdog report.…
Assaults on mental health staff up 25% in four years
Mental health staff in the UK are working in a "powder keg" environment, as assaults by patients soar, a BBC investigation has revealed. Figures obtained by 5 live Investigates show there were more than 42,000 reported attacks on staff in 2016-17 in the mental health trusts who responded.…
Government accused of ’empty promises’ on mental health as NHS plans to slash funding
Cash-strapped Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) in England said they will reduce the proportion of their budgets spent on offering mental health support in 2017/18, despite previous commitments from Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt that spending would increase.…
Heavy alcohol use alters brain functioning differently in young men and women
Scientists have found that brain functions in young men and women are changed by long-term alcohol use, but that these changes are significantly different in men and women. This indicates not only that young people might be at increased risk of long-term harm from alcohol use, but also that the risks are probably different in men and in women, with men possibly more at risk. This work is presented today at the ECNP meeting in Paris.…
Mental health patients are being treated hundreds of miles away – due to a lack of beds in Manchester
Hundreds of desperately ill patients were sent almost 200 miles from Greater Manchester for 'out-of-area' placements.…
Who pays the penalty when mental health services fail?
I have personal experience of being the subject of a safeguarding alert. My story highlights why the six guiding principles of safeguarding (empowerment, prevention, proportionality, protection, partnership and accountability) matter and how failing to put them into practice can be so costly.…
More UK nurses and midwives leaving than joining profession
More nurses and midwives are leaving the profession in the UK than joining it, for the first time since 2008, figures show.…
Taking Fish Oil Containing Eicosapentaenoic Acid (EPA) Gives Positive Effects Upon Bipolar Disorder
Having used fish oils containing EPA (Eicosapentaenoic acid) for many years I have obtained excellent results leading to no depression, after suffering for over ten years with it. …
Public sector workers are more likely to say their mental health is poor and to have less support than private sector employees
Workplace mental health support is worse in the public sector than in the private sector, according to a comprehensive study by mental health charity Mind.…
Tory deputy mayor: Best thing for disabled children is the guillotine
The retired GP made his sick suggestion to fellow councillors as they discussed sending the youngsters to a £3,000-a-week care home…
People with mental health problems made more unwell by benefits system
Mental health charity Mind has today revealed that a high proportion of people with mental health problems are being made more unwell by the benefits system. In particular, the process of being ‘sanctioned’ – having financial support cut or stopped altogether – is worsening people’s mental health.…
One Woman’s Struggle to Get Mental Health Support
The World Health Organization has estimated that mental or neurological disorders will affect one in four people at some point in their lives. In the U.K., one charity says this proportion is far higher.…
Pushing people to the brink of suicide: the reality of benefit assessments
Department for Work and Pensions assessments are damaging people’s lives. And they don’t even provide the predicted savings…
