PUBLIC MEETING CANCELLED ON 19 Th March 2019 DUE TO CORONAVIRUS
Meeting due to take place at Harpurhey Neighbourhood Project…
Increasing numbers of mental health patients are being ‘dumped’ on their GP and discharged from psychiatric care, damning report says
"The perception was that people with complex and chronic disabilities are 'dumped' on GPs, many of whom 'lack the capacity and willingness to understand' how to manage their care."…
Changes urged to tackle mental health ‘human rights scandal’
"The disparities in physical health outcomes for people with mental illness are currently regarded as a human rights scandal. Patients with serious mental illness are two to three times as likely to have obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases – which impact on quality of life and recovery, while contributing towards a 20-year gap in life expectancy currently experienced by this underserved population. Dr Joseph Firth"…
Trust Block Peer Advocacy for Services Users In Manchester
Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust (GMMH) is under fire due to policy changes that are said to be limiting peer advocacy and service user involvement. In January, GMMH published its latest service user and carer engagement policy (SCE), which changed the definition of “service user” to mean anyone who has been discharged from its mental health services within the last 12 months. Only they are allowed to be involved in decision making about GMMH services.…
Mad? I’m furious!
My first contact with Liverpool Mental Health Consortium (LMHC) was in February 2003, when I wrote them a very terse letter complaining bitterly that I had been unable to access a place at their national Snakes & Ladders Conference & denouncing them for exclusivity & poor communication. Fast-forward 9 months, & they advertised a post with a person specification clearly stating that lived experience of mental distress was a ‘desirable quality’.…
Austerity is denying patients and care service users a voice
User involvement in professional education was pioneered in social work, where service user and carer involvement is required at all stages. Students, service users, carers and educators all strongly support such involvement and see it as a key way of improving the culture of practice.…
PUBLIC MEETING CANCELLED ON 19 Th March 2019 DUE TO CORONAVIRUS
Meeting due to take place at Harpurhey Neighbourhood Project Centre will be cancelled due to the Cronoavirus. Further information will…
Changes urged to tackle mental health ‘human rights scandal’
"The disparities in physical health outcomes for people with mental illness are currently regarded as a human rights scandal. Patients with serious mental illness are two to three times as likely to have obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases – which impact on quality of life and recovery, while contributing towards a 20-year gap in life expectancy currently experienced by this underserved population. Dr Joseph Firth"…
PUBLIC MEETING CANCELLED ON 19 Th March 2019 DUE TO CORONAVIRUS
Meeting due to take place at Harpurhey Neighbourhood Project…
Increasing numbers of mental health patients are being ‘dumped’ on their GP and discharged from psychiatric care, damning report says
"The perception was that people with complex and chronic disabilities are 'dumped' on GPs, many of whom 'lack the capacity and willingness to understand' how to manage their care."…
Changes urged to tackle mental health ‘human rights scandal’
"The disparities in physical health outcomes for people with mental illness are currently regarded as a human rights scandal. Patients with serious mental illness are two to three times as likely to have obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases – which impact on quality of life and recovery, while contributing towards a 20-year gap in life expectancy currently experienced by this underserved population. Dr Joseph Firth"…
Trust Block Peer Advocacy for Services Users In Manchester
Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust (GMMH) is under fire due to policy changes that are said to be limiting peer advocacy and service user involvement. In January, GMMH published its latest service user and carer engagement policy (SCE), which changed the definition of “service user” to mean anyone who has been discharged from its mental health services within the last 12 months. Only they are allowed to be involved in decision making about GMMH services.…
Mad? I’m furious!
My first contact with Liverpool Mental Health Consortium (LMHC) was in February 2003, when I wrote them a very terse letter complaining bitterly that I had been unable to access a place at their national Snakes & Ladders Conference & denouncing them for exclusivity & poor communication. Fast-forward 9 months, & they advertised a post with a person specification clearly stating that lived experience of mental distress was a ‘desirable quality’.…
Austerity is denying patients and care service users a voice
User involvement in professional education was pioneered in social work, where service user and carer involvement is required at all stages. Students, service users, carers and educators all strongly support such involvement and see it as a key way of improving the culture of practice.…
Male suicide: How Andy’s Man Club helps Oldham men struggling to cope with changing societal role
Andy’s Man Club was established by Luke Ambler in 2016 after his brother-in-law Andy committed suicide. It is a volunteer led organisation in which men suffering from mental health problems, including suicidal tendencies, can go for help.…
NHS at 70: Caring through the generations : Nurse Karen Reissmann NHS A Family Tradition
Labour Health Secretary Aneurin Bevan founded the organisation in 1948 The NHS brought doctors, nurses, pharmacists, opticians, dentists and hospitals together for the first time It was the first time health services were free for all at the point of delivery…
Manchester Mental Health Park House Unit Support worker asked vulnerable woman to perform sex act on herself Gets 30 Months In Prison
David Kelly, 52, encouraged the victim, who has schizophrenia and a number of other conditions, to touch herself intimately, after turning up at her home. She was said to have been left feeling ‘embarrassed and ashamed’ by the incident and has struggled to comes to terms with it.…
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.…
