Legal Settlement For Service Users!

Legal Settlement For Service Users!

Manchester Mental Health Trust agrees to reconsider cuts decision Following a legal challenge brought by service-users represented by Deighton Pierce Glynn, Manchester Mental Health & Social Care Trust has agreed to consider afresh its decision to go ahead with proposals to change community mental health services which would have resulted in staff cuts of over […]

GP surgeries to have finger-tip technology to help cut out errors!

GP surgeries to have finger-tip technology to help cut out errors!

High-tech patient data in Wigan GP surgeries in Wigan are now using a new electronic system which they hope will cut out errors in patient records and save money. The new system will allow medical staff to send all of their patient clinical correspondence electronically to GP practices. The news comes only a week after […]

Police “Puzzled by IPCC Remarks”

Police “Puzzled by IPCC Remarks”

Force Seeks Advice On Mental Health Call Issues GMP speaks to Home Office about volumes of calls relating to mental health issues amid criticism from a coroner <img border=’0′ alt=” src=’http://ads.nsi-ltd.com/www/delivery/avw.php?zoneid=97&n=43f1abf’ />Greater Manchester Police is seeking advice about an increased volume of emergency calls to and from people with mental health problems after the force was […]

The Right To Have Advocacy for People !

The Right To Have Advocacy for People !

The Right to Be Heard: Independent Mental Health Advocacy for People Detained Under the Mental Health Act Karen Newbigging Principal Lecturer and Senior Researcher, University of Central Lancashire   Last week’s Parliamentary debate on mental health – in which various MPs spoke movingly about their own struggles – has helped give prominence to a subject that […]

Power To The People !

Power To The People !

‘People power’ victory as health job cuts on hold Manchester: A health trust has agreed to look again at a plan to cut almost 40 front-line-posts-after patients threatened to challenge it in court. Manchester Mental Health & Social Care Trust proposed a series of changes to community services, including axing jobs as part of a […]

Seaside Appointment Means Jackie Daniel CEO, Will Leave Manchester.

Seaside Appointment Means Jackie Daniel CEO, Will Leave Manchester.

Morecambe Bay NHS Trust names Jackie Daniel as chief executive   A beleaguered NHS trust which was accused of putting patients “at risk of poor care” has announced the appointment of a new chief executive.Jackie Daniel will join University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust in August. The trust, which runs hospitals in Cumbria […]

Reports Prove MUN’s Long-Time View That Patients Need Advocacy All Patient!

Reports Prove MUN’s Long-Time View That Patients Need Advocacy All Patient!

Report reveals advocacy is vital in mental health Published on Tuesday 26 June 2012 08:24 A new study from the University of Central Lancashire reveals that understanding of the role of advocacy is critical to ensuring people get the support they need from mental health services. The study, funded by the Department of Health, looked […]

Mental Health Issues In Need Of Political Representation !

Mental Health Issues In Need Of Political Representation !

“Welfare suicides don’t exist. Suicide is a mental health issue.” That line, by the former Labour official Luke Bozier, pretty much sums up the standard rightwing response to the website Calum’s List. According to its founders, the aim of Calum’s List is “to list the number of deaths where welfare reform has alleged to have had some culpability, and to make the best effort possible to work towards reducing this death toll.” Bozier’s Twitter comments were a gloss on blogposts by The Spectator’s Isabel Hardman and the Telegraph’s Brendan O’Neill.

CUT’S of 20% ‘morally repugnant in its planning ‘ .

By: Paul Reed Members of Manchester Mental Health Unison Branch, last weekend ordered its printers to print thousands of pamphlets that are calling upon its members to attend a Public Meeting to discuss with members of the public and their health workers, who have concerns that lives will be lost as a direct result of cuts being made […]