Newton Heath: Rememberance Day, Respecting is part of their makeup !

Newton Heath: Rememberance Day, Respecting is part of their makeup !
Young and old stood shoulder to shoulder in this poignant ceremony marking the 100 years since the outbreak of the First World War A bugler sounded the ‘Last Post’ which marked the beginning and the end of the two minutes’ silence.

Duncan Edwards Court: An elderly woman has died after a fire at sheltered housing

Duncan Edwards Court: An elderly woman has died after a fire at sheltered housing

Duncan Edwards Court: An elderly woman has died after a fire at sheltered housing!
The 88-year-old’s body was discovered after an automatic alarm was triggered when smoke started filling the building just before 10am.

Neighbours had complained of an acrid smell before the tragic discovery was made in a bedroom of the warden-controlled flats in Newton Heath.
Duncan Edward Court: An elderly woman has died after a fire at sheltered housing!

Officers said smoke had badly damaged the inside of the flat, but the fire had been extinguished by the time they arrived.

Children in mental health crisis face being locked up by police

Parts of the country have no places of safety to assess vulnerable children suffering from a mental health crisis, forcing them to be locked in prison cells or police vans for hours at a time.

Maps revealing the mental health units and hospitals where people can be detained if police believe they are a danger to themselves or others because of a mental health problem show Norfolk, Hampshire and Devon have not one dedicated place of safety for children under 16.

Inside the Notorious Yarl’s Wood Immigration Detention Centre

Inside the Notorious Yarl’s Wood Immigration Detention Centre
usan wrings her hands and twitches as she speaks, jerking her head from side to side. She is clearly not well. “I ate washing powder to try and kill myself,” says the nervous woman in her fifties. Her eyes flash wild. “It was all I could find. I wanted to die. I would rather die than go back.”

Susan, whose name has been changed, as have those of all the residents quoted in this article, at their own request, says she was a campaigner for human rights in her country of birth in South East Asia but that she fled after her mother was murdered by those she opposed. That trauma forced her to flee to England – not Britain’s superb welfare system or the lax immigration controls that prompted the mayor of the French town of Calais, Natacha Bouchart, to descibe the UK as an “El Dorado” for immigrants last week.

Patients with bipolar disorder have high rates of medical illness

Patients with bipolar disorder have high rates of medical illness, which often exceeds the levels observed in patients with unipolar depression, show results of a UK-based study.

bipolar-disorder-definition-mania-depression“This comorbidity needs to be taken into account by services in order to improve outcomes for patients with bipolar disorder and also in research investigating the aetiology of affective disorder where shared biological pathways may play a role”, say study authors Nick Craddock (Cardiff University) et al.

“Everyone needs to try harder if we want to end mental health stigma”

“Everyone needs to try harder if we want to end mental health stigma”

Lola Saunders’ rendition of Crazy on the show last week, which featured dancers in straitjackets, highlights how everyone needs to try harder if we want to end mental health stigma

There are “serious and deeply ingrained problems” with child and adolescent mental health services, officials warn.

There are “serious and deeply ingrained problems” with child and adolescent mental health services, officials warn.

There are “serious and deeply ingrained problems” with child and adolescent mental health services, officials warn.

The Health Select Committee says the whole system – from prevention and early intervention through to inpatient services – has issues.

While demand for care is rising, in many parts of the country funding is being frozen or cut.

The government said it had launched a taskforce to drive up standards, and was investing money in mental health.

Turned away
The Health Select Committee, which received the most written submissions for any inquiry it has held this Parliament, was particularly concerned about children and young people being taken to police cells rather than hospital.

UNISON stage a four-hour stoppage between 7am and 11am on Monday 24 November.

UNISON has confirmed that its members working in the NHS in England will stage a four-hour stoppage between 7am and 11am on Monday 24 November.

Ending the NHS “Sell off: the abolition of your NHS” (Full Movie)

Ending the NHS “Sell off: the abolition of your NHS” (Full Movie)

Ending the NHS “Sell off: the abolition of your NHS” (Full Movie)
I will shine a torch on what some doctors see as a glaring omission in the national psyche. I have identified a powerful group of figures within the NHS who are alarmed by the public’s lack of awareness about the abolition of their NHS. This film will follow their arguments right the way up to the Health Secretary’s relinquishing of responsibility for the nation’s health, and will argue that it must be reversed. This film also takes you on a personal journey to a national theme that has massive implications for us all. It will reveal a hidden agenda that’s already having disastrous effects. According to one senior consultant: ‘It’s like putting Dracula in charge of the blood bank’. Each of the insiders will speak to us intimately, as if we’re patients in the consulting room. It will be clear that these doctors are people simply doing their jobs by putting their patients’ interests – which are also the viewers’ interests – first. What perhaps will surprise us most is how efficiency and quality will drop. Or, perilously, how close we are to falling forever down a pitiless US-style empty well of no-bucks-no-care. Though the diagnosis remains bleak, the strength of the characters at the film’s disposal should give us surprising hope, casting flashes of light across an otherwise bleak landscape. The style of the film is intimate, hand-held scrupulousness. Interviews will take place in discreet corners of hospitals, surgeries and streets, the images at times elevated by a powerful soundtrack, leaving the viewer with an overall admiration for the doctors’