It’s not too late to save the NHS – but we have to act NOW

Mental health services, which are already struggling under the strain of demand, historically inadequate funding and incompetent commissioning decisions, will not achieve parity at least in my life time. And the problem might get even worse before it gets better.

It’s not too late to save the NHS – but we have to act NOW

OPINION BY DR KAILASH CHAND     On almost every measure, the NHS in Greater Manchester is in a worse position than this time last year. And as we enter winter, this spells bad news. Last winter was the worst for a generation with A&E waits hitting their highest levels since targets were introduced in […]

A former Manchester student who fell to his death from a hospital window should have had psychiatric assessment, inquest hears.

Eugene St Leger, from Bramhall, Stockport, was rushed to Stepping Hill Hospital after his sister Alexandra found him face down in a pool of blood in the family’s cellar after he cut his neck with a piece of glass

War of the wards in Manchester’s mental health service

War of the wards in Manchester’s mental health service

By Mike Brunt Awful stenches, overcrowded dormitories and under-staffed wards – it was an era that staff in Manchester’s mental health service thought was long gone. However, just a few years after a state-of-the-art mental health centre had been built in the heart of the city, staff fear they face the possibility of such times […]