Use of antidepressants ‘is soaring’ Prescriptions for drugs such as antidepressants and sleeping pills have jumped 20% in just three years, according to new figures. Experts believe the stress of recent years, including that caused by economic turmoil, means more people are experiencing mental health problems. Data from the NHS Information Centre shows antidepressant use […]
Manchester Users’ Network. Press Release. PARK HOUSE HOSPITAL “It’s like a prison with drugs!!!” Patients are asking “Is Park House like forced imprisonment for voluntary patients?” ‘Patient’s To Be Locked In Prison Like Conditions’ The Chief Executive, Jackie Daniel of Manchester Mental Health & Social Care Trust, has decided to have all locked wards in […]
Stopping smoking could save you £500 in the New Year thanks to the Manchester Stop Smoking Service. Come along to one of our free coffee morning to get free, confidential support, from a community stop smoking and if you stop smoking for 10 weeks and you could be saving up to £400 of your own money. […]
Thousands in north Manchester join public sector strikes Pamela Welsh. MEN December 01, 2011 Thousands of public sector workers took to picket lines across north Manchester as part of a massive day of action. The city was at a standstill as council staff, teachers, job centre workers and hospital staff walked out over pensions. […]
Psychiatrist calls for lithium to be added to water GORDON DEEGAN A consultant psychiatrist last night called on Government to add lithium salts to the public water supply in a bid to lower the suicide rate and depression among the general population. At a mental health forum on “Depression in Rural Ireland” in Ennistymon, […]
“GATHERING STORM” Part 3 “Scarlet & True” Tuesday 6th December 2011 at 11am- 3pm on Old Church Street Newton Heath Manchester. Save Edale Hospital Unit and Stop The Massive Life Threatening Cuts to Manchester Mental Health Services. The Fight For Edale The campaign to save Edale Hospital Unit will be next ‘gathering outside of […]
Manchester User Network This cut will devastate services! Twitter us on: on: munreporter! 25% CUT TO VITAL COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES Meeting 6pm Wednesday 7th Dec. Methodist Hall Oldham St,M/cr. MUN appeal to users, health staff and the public to stop these dangerous cuts now. Speaker Karen Reissmann – UNISON National executive. If this massive […]
HRH Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa is the king of Bahrain, Can He Help The Medic
The foreign secretary said the sentences handed out by the special tribunal to doctors who treated injured protesters were “worrying developments that could undermine the Bahraini government’s moves towards dialogue and the reform needed for long-term stability in Bahrain”. A spokeperson for Manchester Users Network said: “Manchester Users Network was recently asked to stand in solidarity with the Bahrain’s medics and Manchester’s Bahrain Solidarity Group that includes the Bahrainis Association for Freedom. We were extremely proud last Friday {25:11:2011} to have the opportunity to support in public and demondstrate our concerns at the treatment of medical staff and patients at the Salmaniya Medical Complex (SMC) Hospital in Bahrain and the subsaquent prison sentances handed out to medical teams staff who carried out their responsiblilty as qualified Doctors and Nurses who are expected to treat patient without predudice and to no harm to their patients. We used the occasion to unfurl our new banner to demontrate and to show our solidarity towards these dedicated medics, who have been made prisoners as a result of carrying out their legal responsibility under agreed international laws.
Nurse Karen Reissmann speaking at the heart of the matter, here pictured in Westminster at the Unite the Resistance Conference last Saturday 19 TH November, 2011. She was received by over 1000+ of different unions united and who had travelled from every part of the country to hear how their members were feeling. As an observer, […]
Council’s social care cuts are unlawful, high court rules Two disabled people win case against Isle of Wight council, which planned to reduce adult social care budget. Press Association guardian.co.uk, Friday 11 November 2011 Two severely disabled adults have won a landmark high court battle over cost-cutting by their local authority when a judge ruled […]
