“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.
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 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.
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’
Manchester to have city-wide mayor
Exchequer, George Osborne, said: “This is a massive moment for the north of England and our plan to build the Northern Powerhouse. After several months of private discussions with local representatives from all three parties, I have reached agreement with the civic leaders of Greater Manchester to create the first metro-wide elected mayor outside of London.
“This will give Mancunians a powerful voice and bring practical improvements for local people, with better transport links, an Oyster-style travelcard, and more investment in skills and the city’s economy.”
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.
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.
Mental health services are being “starved of resources”
A mental health commission led by former health minister Paul Burstow MP, which included representatives of the NHS, charities and Royal College of Psychiatrists, found mental health is underfunded by about 10% or £10bn.
‘Inflicting burns on her head, she spent eight months in hospital in Manchester for treatment’.
It was five years ago that Archway resident Miquel Tomlinson first started hearing voices telling her to self-harm.
Aged 19 at the time, they surfaced not long after a childhood spent in and out of foster care.
Taken from her family aged just five, one of the few memories was having “gentleman callers” come into her room and demand she strip off in front of them.
