Patients without Cookers, Furniture etc 5 Th Nov 2014!
Patients without Cookers, Furniture etc 5 Th Nov 2014!
MANCHESTER USERS NETWORK
MEETING ON
WEDNESDAY, 5TH NOVEMBER 2014, 1.30PM.
Patients without Cookers, Furniture etc 5 Th Nov 2014!
MANCHESTER USERS NETWORK
MEETING ON
WEDNESDAY, 5TH NOVEMBER 2014, 1.30PM.
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’
MUN Supporters Irwin Mitchell Solicitors’ win Supreme Court Judgement for ordinary people involved in decisions which affect their lives.
What are the ingredients of a lawful consultation when local authorities or other public bodies consult on a decision which potentially affects everyone?
solicitors_irwinLocal Authorities across England will now have to take greater steps to ensure they properly involve local people in their decision-making processes as the Supreme Court ruled today (29 October 2014) that a London council’s consultation on its proposed Council Tax scheme misleadingly implied that it had no alternative and was therefore declared unlawful.
Nine out of 10 people with mental health problems suffer from stigma or discrimination, according to a national campaign.
See Me, an anti-stigma campaign, said discrimination was still present in work, education, health care and at home.
They are to launch a campaign at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall to tackle the problem.
Mental health spending in England too low, says Mind !
Local authorities in England spend an “unacceptably low” amount of money on public mental health, according to the charity Mind.
A report by the charity says on average just 1.4% of public health budgets is spent on mental health.
Public Health England welcomed the report and said there should be more investment at the local level.
The Local Government Association said councils did many positive things that the report had not recognised.
ALMOST NINE HUNDRED ADULT ABUSE ALERTS IN SALFORD LAST YEAR !
Salford has a huge number of alerts, referrals and safeguarding issues with adults, which range from neglect to physical abuse, to financial and emotional abuse, according to a new report by the Salford Adult Safeguarding Board.
“People who are in need of psychiatric admission should have the right to be treated in a local hospital”
A mental health service has said it is being forced to send patients almost 200 miles away for treatment because it is struggling to meet demand for beds.
Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Trust said it operates at 100% capacity for a majority of the time.
It said beds will “always be found” in an emergency, but patients have been sent as far as Brighton and Carlisle.
Millions of UK workers fear reporting mental health conditions !
Huge numbers of UK workers are hiding mental health conditions from their employers for fear of it affecting their job, according to Friends Life.
A poll from One Poll for the insurance firm, which surveyed more than 2,000 people, found that more than 50% of all workers believe being open about a common mental health problem would damage their career prospects.
The UK working-age population is more than 38 million, according to the Office for National Statistics.
So more than 19 million workers in the UK could be worried about reporting a common mental health problem to their employers.
The head of Unison has urged NHS staff to ‘keep on fighting’ after six different unions in Manchester took part in the first nationwide health service walkout for 32 years.
The strike was triggered by the coalition government’s decision to refuse NHS staff the 1% pay rise recommended by an independent pay review body and sparked further outrage after the proposal to award MPs a 9% pay rise earlier this year.
One in four workers at Manchester’s mental health trust would not recommend the care to their loved ones, an official survey shows.
A quarter of staff at the Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust said they would not recommend it to their friends or family, according to the first NHS Friends and Family Test.
More than a third of staff who took part in the survey also said they would not recommend it as a good place to work.