Mental Health Awareness Week 2024 will take place from 13 to 19 May

Being active is important for our mental health. But so many of us struggle to get enough exercise. We know there are many different reasons for this, so this Mental Health Awareness Week we want to help people to find moments for movement in their daily routines. Going for a walk in your neighbourhood, putting […]

FILMING PATIENTS, INTERESTING READING ON MENTAL CAPACITY “DEMYSTIFYING MENTAL CAPACITY ” (PROFESSOR KEITH BROWN) AND ANOTHER EASTER WITHOUT ELIZABETH

Making and using visual and audio recordings of patients https://www.gmc-uk.org/professional-standards/professional-standards-for-doctors/making-and-using-visual-and-audio-recordings-of-patients/principles The above link may be of interest to those who like myself am not happy at hearing from Elizabeth that her thoughts and wishes have been ignored as regards being filmed. LPFT have assessed Elizabeth as having no capacity in capacity assessments that are highly […]

Ministers to amend Criminal Justice Bill to introduce mandatory reporting of child sexual abuse

More than 3,500 online grooming crimes against children recorded by Police Scotland https://news.stv.tv/scotland/more-than-3500-online-grooming-crimes-against-children-recorded-by-police-scotland   https://www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk/child-protection/392-children-protection-news/56500-ministers-to-amend-criminal-justice-bill-to-introduce-mandatory-reporting-of-child-sexual-abuse The Government is to amend the Criminal Justice Bill to make it a legal requirement for anyone in regulated activity relating to children in England, including teachers or healthcare professionals, to report it if they know a child is being […]

Hidden on the Ward: The Abuse of Children in Hospitals

  Violence against children and adolescents by nursing staff: prevalence rates and implications for practice https://capmh.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13034-020-00350-6   Whistleblowers claim children ‘seriously harmed’ at scandal-hit mental health hospitals https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/mental-health-abuse-children-huntercombe-b2270448.html Systemic abuse’ at children’s hospitals revealed https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/mental-health-abuse-hospital-b2204922.html Victims of doctor who used ‘truth serum’ drug to paralyse and rape at least 130 children as young as ten […]

Mind reveals true extent of crisis in mental healthcare

The UK’s largest mental health charity today publishes previously unseen data laying bare the full scale of the emergency in mental healthcare, with staff reporting 17,340 serious incidents in 12 months. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) figures shows mental healthcare staff across England reported an incident two times every hour[1] in the last year, where people […]

These shocking stories show mental health is still not being taken seriously in England

We’re paying £2bn a year to subsidise private mental health hospitals – that’s the cost of government negligence Tue 26 Apr 2022 07.00 BST   Last summer, a young man – let’s call him Daniel – walked into a hospital A&E department in England and told doctors that he had schizophrenia. He had struggled with his […]

Human rights of mental health patients violated amid crisis in care, regulator warns

The government is preoccupied and has a lot of things to do, but this issue is not going to go away’ warns health ombudsman Rebecca Thomas Health Correspondent Tuesday 29 November 2022 10:32 GMT The human rights of vulnerable mental health patients are being violated because of the crisis in care, a regulator has warned. Rob Behrens, the health service ombudsman […]

NHS GPS BONUSES FOR SELLING BIG PHARMA DRUGS

How much should patients know about pharma payments to doctors? https://www.theguardian.com/healthcare-network/2016/may/18/patients-pharma-payments-doctors-database Individual NHS doctors receiving £100,000 per year from drugs firms https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uk/ How GPs are Paid to Prescribe Ineffective Drugs How GPs are Paid to Prescribe Ineffective Drugs GPs are prescribing far too many pills. Most people know that and Dr James LeFanu, Telegraph columnist, […]

Big pharma giants pour millions of pounds into NHS to boost drug sales

IF WE WANT TO SAVE THE NHS, WE NEED TO TAKE ON BIG PHARMA Big pharma “Big Pharma” emerged in the post-war period as companies specialising in different parts of the medicine supply chain merged into single corporations, able to take care of every step of the medical research process from research to the marketing […]

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