On the day Carolan was arrested by police last December, Mrs McGivern suffered a fatal heart attack. The grandmother was said to be absolutely mortified that her friend and Mrs Bryan said: ‘My mum couldn’t cope with the fact somebody had done that to her.
‘She loved her and thought she was her best friend. I think this contributed to her death.
She would still be here today without all this. She would easily have more years in her.’
Carolan, who had no previous convictions, admitted fraud and was jailed for six months. Sentencing her, Judge Lever branded Carolan’s behaviour as ‘despicable’.confidante had plundered her life savings.
The Con-Dem government have outsourced the assessment of disabled people for eligibility for benefits to the private IT company Atos Origin in order to shift disabled people onto the much harsher regime of Jobseekers Allowance and distance themselves from responsibility for what happens to disabled people as a result. Their assessments are degrading, stressful and unfair. Many of the people they find “fit to work” simply are not; in 2010, over 1300 people died soon after being kicked off disability benefits due to an Atos assessment. This number is rising.
A series of failings in the way mental health services are being commissioned and run is damaging the care of patients detained under the Mental Health Act and undermining their rights, a report by the Care Quality Commission has found.
Flu outbreak at Park House Wards Elm, Redwood and Laurel are currently affected by an outbreak of flu and ALL wards at Park House are currently closed to admissions. Affected wards only are closed to visitors, and the service users’ families and friends on these wards have been informed. Wards will re-open four to five […]
Meeting What do Modern Occupational Therapists do in Mental Health? Invited & Welcomed, Ruth Hartman Newly Qualified Occupational Therapist Held in Recovery Education, Room 1. (Where Mainway was). Park House Hospital. 1.30pm, Wednesday 28th August 2013. Ruth, also was a young Mental Health Carer and attended meetings to improve services for her parents and others. […]
‘High Tea In The Town Hall’ Manchester Mental Health & Social Care Trust will be holding their Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Manchester Town Hall. It is important that all service users try their best to attend this very important meeting. High tea will be served in the Town Hall. Manchester Users Network will be […]
Bedroom Tax: Man yells ‘I’m sick of this s**t’ before cutting throat in horrifying benefits office protest 26 Jul 2013 12:40 Witnesses say the middle-aged man sliced his throat from ear-to-ear with a knife as he spoke to an adviser A Bedroom Tax victim yelled “I’m sick of all this s**t” before cutting his throat […]
Bedroom tax: Samaritans called in to train housing staff as levy sparks suicide attempts 21 Jul 2013 Demand for training sessions with experts from the emotional support charity has shot up 48% in the past three months, the Sunday People reports. Housing chiefs are calling in Samaritans as the Bedroom Tax pushes more tenants to […]
Foreigners who visit Britain for more than six months will be made to pay at least £200 a year to use NHS services, under a set of proposals to be introduced tomorrow. The measures, to be announced by the Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt and put out for consultation, aim to crackdown on the illegitimate use […]
