The story of how one vulnerable patient took on mental health cuts – and won

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This week a woman so shy she could hardly use the phone forced health chiefs into an extraordinary climbdown. Here’s what happened

The story of how one vulnerable patient took on mental health cuts – and won

By: Jennifer Williams It is the ultimate David and Goliath story.   On March 30 this year, the day – ironically – before the region’s health devolution deal came into legal effect, Manchester’s ailing mental health trust took a potentially catastrophic decision. Despite the combined protests from patients, staff, unions, councillors, MPs and an M.E.N. […]