“MANCHESTER USERS’ NETWORK” MEETING AGAINST KILLER CUTS
Monday December 15th 2014.
12.00 Noon,
Harpurhey Wellbeing Centre,
93, Church Lane,
Manchester M9 5BG
Invited your elected councillors, MPs and Manchester Mental Health & Social Care Trust, Chief Executive, Michelle Moran and Commissioners,
Claims of bullying culture among staff at Britain’s biggest NHS mental health trust
The UK’s biggest mental health NHS trust, which covers Broadmoor Hospital and units looking after the most vulnerable female patients, is in turmoil following widespread allegations of bullying, a critical Care Quality Commission inspection report and the sudden resignation of its chairman.
Mental health professionals will be on hand across Essex to provide the best possible care at peak times.
Essex Police has launched a pilot project with the NHS to provide extra support on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights, from 6pm to 2am.
CAMPAIGNERS presented a petition with more than 8000 signatures to health chiefs against the perceived “sell-off” of mental health services.
Around 40 members of Save Bolton Health Services picketed outside the board meeting of the Bolton Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), which is in the process of re-tendering the contract for psychological therapies services.
Group secretary Karen Reissmann also spoke out during the meeting, calling for more information about the new contract and procurement process.
Bosses at the Care Quality Commission have launched an ‘intelligent monitoring’ database that allows patients to see which trusts are highest on its priority list for inspections under a new regime.
The Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust, which provides mental health services across the city, has fallen in the highest priority banding.
It is one of only five trusts in the country to be placed in the top band.
The watchdog’s intelligent monitoring report highlights six ‘risks’ and one ‘elevated risk’ at the trust.
In 1999, Harvard psychiatrist Dr. Andrew Stoll published a study showing that omega-3 fats improved the course of illness in people with bipolar disorder.1 In 2001, he published the book The Omega-3 Connection, which was among the first works to bring attention to and support the use of omega-3 fats for depression.
Now, more than a decade later, there has been additional research supporting the importance of omega-3 fats for mental health, including a potentially groundbreaking study presented at the 2014 International Early Psychosis Conference in Tokyo, Japan, which took place in November.2
The number of mental health patients held in police cells in Greater Manchester has plunged in just 12 months.
NHS figures show that fewer than five people experiencing a mental health crisis were held at the region’s police stations in 2013/14 compared with more than 200 in 2012/13.
It follows a major push by police, mental health chiefs and local councils to ensure that people in crisis are given better access to the right care.
A teenager with mental health problems has been held in custody by police since Thursday night as there are no beds available on the NHS, according to a senior police officer.
The 16-year-old girl was detained on Thursday night and was sectioned under the Mental Health Act 1983 by Friday lunchtime, said Assistant Chief Constable Paul Netherton of Devon and Cornwall Police.
An investigation of coroners’ reports and NHS trust papers with the journal Community Care found another patient denied a bed later killed his mother.
It comes as mental health beds are being cut in England – figures show more than 2100 have gone since 2011.
The NHS England said spending on mental health was increasing in real terms.
Closure of Recovery & Connect service !
