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“We begged and he begged for him to be sectioned but absolutely nothing happened’

manchesterusersnetwork — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 04:40:33 +0000

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PUBLIC MEETING CANCELLED ON 19 Th March 2019 DUE TO CORONAVIRUS

manchesterusersnetwork — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 13:08:52 +0000

Meeting due to take place at Harpurhey Neighbourhood Project Centre will be cancelled due to the Cronoavirus. Further information will be give as to the next possible date as soon as we may be allowed to hold Public Meetings. COVID-19 is a new illness that can affect your lungs and airways. It’s caused […]

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Increasing numbers of mental health patients are being ‘dumped’ on their GP and discharged from psychiatric care, damning report says

manchesterusersnetwork — Fri, 06 Mar 2020 03:19:30 +0000

"The perception was that people with complex and chronic disabilities are 'dumped' on GPs, many of whom 'lack the capacity and willingness to understand' how to manage their care."

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Changes urged to tackle mental health ‘human rights scandal’

manchesterusersnetwork — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 23:35:32 +0000

"The disparities in physical health outcomes for people with mental illness are currently regarded as a human rights scandal. Patients with serious mental illness are two to three times as likely to have obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases – which impact on quality of life and recovery, while contributing towards a 20-year gap in life expectancy currently experienced by this underserved population.
Dr Joseph Firth"

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Trust Block Peer Advocacy for Services Users In Manchester

manchesterusersnetwork — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 22:08:42 +0000

Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust (GMMH) is under fire due to policy changes that are said to be limiting peer advocacy and service user involvement.

In January, GMMH published its latest service user and carer engagement policy (SCE), which changed the definition of “service user” to mean anyone who has been discharged from its mental health services within the last 12 months. Only they are allowed to be involved in decision making about GMMH services.

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Mad? I’m furious!

manchesterusersnetwork — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 20:19:14 +0000

My first contact with Liverpool Mental Health Consortium (LMHC) was in February 2003, when I wrote them a very terse letter complaining bitterly that I had been unable to access a place at their national Snakes & Ladders Conference & denouncing them for exclusivity & poor communication.
Fast-forward 9 months, & they advertised a post with a person specification clearly stating that lived experience of mental distress was a ‘desirable quality’.

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Austerity is denying patients and care service users a voice

manchesterusersnetwork — Thu, 31 Jan 2019 10:38:36 +0000

User involvement in professional education was pioneered in social work, where service user and carer involvement is required at all stages. Students, service users, carers and educators all strongly support such involvement and see it as a key way of improving the culture of practice.

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Male suicide: How Andy’s Man Club helps Oldham men struggling to cope with changing societal role

manchesterusersnetwork — Wed, 09 Jan 2019 16:09:33 +0000

Andy’s Man Club was established by Luke Ambler in 2016 after his brother-in-law Andy committed suicide. It is a volunteer led organisation in which men suffering from mental health problems, including suicidal tendencies, can go for help.

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NHS at 70: Caring through the generations : Nurse Karen Reissmann NHS A Family Tradition

manchesterusersnetwork — Thu, 13 Dec 2018 21:44:54 +0000

Labour Health Secretary Aneurin Bevan founded the organisation in 1948
The NHS brought doctors, nurses, pharmacists, opticians, dentists and hospitals together for the first time
It was the first time health services were free for all at the point of delivery

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Manchester Mental Health Park House Unit Support worker asked vulnerable woman to perform sex act on herself Gets 30 Months In Prison

manchesterusersnetwork — Mon, 30 Apr 2018 10:00:43 +0000

David Kelly, 52, encouraged the victim, who has schizophrenia and a number of other conditions, to touch herself intimately, after turning up at her home.

She was said to have been left feeling ‘embarrassed and ashamed’ by the incident and has struggled to comes to terms with it.

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