Misery and Despair For Many Residents; presently living with A Mental Health Illness Within the City of Manchester

Decisions that have no mandate or support from professional health workers or those who represent them including Unison’s Manchester Community and Mental Health Branch and Trade Unionist from all parts of the region.

Misery and Despair For Many Residents; presently living with A Mental Health Illness Within the City of Manchester

Manchester Town Hall (photo)   By: Paul Reed. Anyone who has anything to do with the care of people who suffer from a mental health illness, including ‘Dual Diagnosis Service’ should aim to read the following : Manchester City Council Mental Health Services consultation report,  as reported below and at the following link: Here . […]

MANCHESTER USERS’ NETWORK MEETING. Tuesday 8 th November 2016, 1.30pm

Fear of hospital closures (Already we have lost Edale Unit, PFI hospital) This is a big concern meeting Calling for your attendance for it is urgently needed ! SOS SAVE OUR SERVICES SOS

MANCHESTER USERS’ NETWORK MEETING.  Tuesday 8 th November 2016, 1.30pm

MANCHESTER USERS’ NETWORK MEETING. Tuesday 8 th November 2016, 1.30pm Harpurhey Wellbeing Centre, 93, CHURCH LANE, MANCHESTER M9 5BG. Mental Health Trust Take Over! User Engagement with Tom Woodcock, Greater Manchester West Mental Health Foundation Trust. We also invite, Commissioners, patients, ex – patients from Bolton, Salford and Trafford that have used the Trust’s Services […]

Austerity has driven a shocking rise in homelessness, but there is another way

So why, in one of the richest countries in the world, do we still have a problem with homelessness, and what can we do about it?

Austerity has driven a shocking rise in homelessness, but there is another way

By: CONRAD BOWER   Walking around the city streets of the UK, it is impossible to miss the growing levels of homelessness. Ever more homeless people appear, asking for change or sheltering in doorways: asleep, unconscious or worse? It’s hard for passers-by to tell, and few are willing to check. It is often the most vulnerable […]

Victory In the Courts Against Decision To Cut Essencial Manchester Mental Health Services

The case raised important issues about the parity of esteem between mental and physical health services, the long-standing under funding of mental health services by the NHS, and the need to consider socio-economic inequality in access to and outcomes achieved by health services.

Victory In the Courts Against Decision To Cut Essencial Manchester Mental Health Services

VICTORY AGAINST DECISION TO CUT MANCHESTER SPECIALIST MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES A High Court legal challenge by a service user represented by DPG has forced Manchester Mental Health and Social Care NHS Trust and the three Manchester Clinical Commissioning Groups to withdraw their decisions to cut seven specialist mental health services in the area. The services, […]

Mental health trust forced to cut services

The three local CCGs affected - NHS Central Manchester CCG, NHS North Manchester CCG and NHS South Manchester CCGs - said they had supported the cuts but that this did not mean they were not working to improve mental health services in Manchester.

Mental health trust forced to cut services

By:Hiba Mahamadi Outside Manchester Mental Health & Social Care Trust as Trust Board Meets .   A mental health trust in Manchester has cut seven front-line community-based services to save £1m, in one of the first major decisions taken since the city was given total control over its health budget. Manchester Mental Health and Social […]

Why Manchester’s mental health cuts are an absolute disgrace

The city's mental health trust is expected to axe £1.5m in services this morning. Here's why all of us should be outraged

Why Manchester’s mental health cuts are an absolute disgrace

 BY: Jennifer Williams When cuts have gone on this long, there is a danger they can start to look a bit samey, to barely pass as news. A million from this service. Two million from that. This council has shrunk by this percent. This other public body is about to fall over. But there are […]

D-DAY For Manchester Mental Health Services Trust HQ 31 St March 2016

'Manchester deserves better mental health services' campaign is calling for a mass lobby outside Chorlton House on this date, from 9.30am - the meeting starts at 10.00am. Chorlton House, 70 Manchester Road, Chorlton, M21 9UN.

D-DAY For Manchester Mental Health Services Trust HQ 31 St March 2016

D-day for Service Users:  Please support demo outside Manchester Mental Health & Social Care Trust HQ Chorlton House on 31 St March 2016 at 9:30am. The Trust will meet at a Board meeting  to announce their decision if to close 7 front line mental health services; every one of them is needed and absolutely necessary to […]

MUN Meeting to be held 1: 30 pm Wednesday 30 Th December, 2015

If these proposed cuts were to be implemented Services Users can expect more medication, more hospitalization, more of a prison service and less of a NHS organisation

MUN Meeting to be held 1: 30 pm Wednesday 30 Th December, 2015

MUN Meeting to be held 1: 30 pm Wednesday 30 Th December, 2015 Manchester User’s Network’s (MUN}  will hold a meeting of  service user, members on Wednesday 30 Th December, 2015 at 1:30pm along with the group, its friends and its network of Service Users and affiliated groups  to further plan and organize further actions […]

MANCHESTER USERS NETWORK MUN INFORMATION MEETING Wednesday 25Th November, 2015 Time, 1:30 pm

MANCHESTER USERS NETWORK  MUN INFORMATION MEETING  Wednesday 25Th November, 2015 Time, 1:30 pm

MUN INFORMATION MEETING Wednesday 25 Th November, 2015 Time, 1:30 pm Meeting to catch up with recent events and how we will attack the cuts to Manchester Mental Health Services. We have a poster campaign and a campaign budget to vote past our members. Please come on time as it promises to be a busy meeting. NEWS VIEWS AND FEEDBACK WELCOME S.O.S SAVE OUR SERVICES

‘I could have slipped through the cracks’: Parents expose ‘mishmashed’ and ‘patchy’ postnatal depression support

“I’m so scared that this is a mistake and I’m not cut out to be a mother. I’m scared I’m going to resent the child and long for my old life.”

“I have some really good days where I feel very positive about life, confident in my ability as a parent and look forward to the future. Other days are just like a black hole.”

“I’ve been feeling suicidal on and off for over a year.”

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