“As a direct result of ‘Patient’ (Services Users) receiving some of the poorest commissioned mental health care in the country , Manchester services user groups have been working with MACC and other mental health support groups on a Manchester Mental Health Charter; which already holds the support of Manchester Services User groups and carer groups and is presently seeking pursuant to further consultation with ‘Services Users’ and the Manchester People and which will eventually give legally binding protections from discrimination because of mental disability and should contractually enlist all members of staff who work for the three Manchester commissioning Groups who commission for Manchester mental health services for patients within their remit.”
Staatement Made By MUN Chair To North Manchester CCG Full Statement: https://www.manchesterusersnetwork.org.uk/2014/03/12/patients-put-questions-north-manchester-clinical-commissioning-group/
Below we have published three recent examples of what patients, users of mental health services (services users) in Manchester have been saying they now want in a charter for mental health. Please leave in the comments section below what you would wish to see in a Manchester charter . The three Manchester mental health commissioning bodies are listening so please add your voice and be heard “It’s Time to Be Heard”
Come and Meet at the Office’s Of Manchester Users Network one of the countries leading mental health solicitors Mathieu Culverhouse a associate member of Irwin Mitchell Solicitors:
“What the media are say about Mathieu Culverhouse of Irwin Mitchell Solicitors, supporting advertisers with the MUNReporter”
“He is a safe pair of hands. He goes the extra mile for the client.” – Chambers & Partners 2014
“calm and efficient.” – Legal 500, 2013
“De novo (or new) mutation in the developing sperm cell may contribute to an increased risk for a surprisingly wide range of mental health disorders, including schizophrenia, autism and mental retardation.”
** Up to £130 to appeal fitness-to-work decisions! ** Doctors are charging sick and disabled people up to £130 for medical evidence to appeal decisions about their fitness to work, The Independent has learnt. NHS GPs are telling patients they will only provide the necessary details to challenge controversial Work Capability Assessments if they pay. […]
Jewish academic Moty Crista sues Unison for racial discrimination Professor says union unlawfully cancelled engagement because he was from Israel One of Britain’s biggest trade unions unlawfully sought the cancellation of a Jewish academic’s speaking engagement on the grounds that he was from Israel, a court has heard. Unison is being sued along with a […]
The Next patient meeting will be at 1:30pm prompt Wednesday 14 Th August, 2013 Manchester Users Network (MUN) will meet on Wednesday 14 Th August, 2013 at the offices of MUN. As part of “It Is Time To Be Heard” campaign. It will be an occasion to allow feedback from this campaign. A published agenda […]
Let’s put mental health education on the school curriculum Young people’s mental health problems are on the rise – it’s time we took this as seriously as their physical education. Ben Morse guardian.co.uk, Monday 8 July 2013 ‘We recognise that a child’s physical health education is important enough to have attention devoted to it weekly, […]
“Karen has always been a champion of her clients.”
Karen Reissmann, community nurse and UNISON activist, was sacked by Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust in 2007. She was sacked for speaking out about cuts and the effect of privatisation.
Police are appealing for the public’s help to trace a missing Manchester man. Michael Edward Gannon, 56, is a resident at the Moston Grange Nursing Home in Newton Heath and went missing on 1 July 2013. It is then believed Michael had a fall and was admitted to hospital but subsequently discharged himself before he […]
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