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 […]

Fighting Back Against Human Rights Abuses in the Mental Health System

MindFreedom is a human rights organization with members worldwide. If you care about freedom and human dignity in the face of forced psychiatry, you’ve come to the right place.   MindFreedom members unite to STOP human rights abuses in the mental health system.   Welcome to the campaign for MindFreedom.   Unlike most other mental […]

UK CARE HOME ABUSE & Solicitors Behaving Badly

Former solicitor jailed for defrauding clients of almost £2m https://www.cps.gov.uk/cps/news/former-solicitor-jailed-defrauding-clients-almost-ps2m Solicitor jailed for stealing £84,000 from elderly clients https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/solicitor-jailed-for-stealing-84000-from-elderly-clients/5118647.article Ex-solicitor jailed for stealing £340,000 from client https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/ex-solicitor-jailed-for-stealing-340000-from-client/5112423.article Property solicitor stole funds, any advice? https://www.lemonfool.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=39488#p595082 Crooked solicitor who stole £94,000 from elderly dementia-struck client and her own father is jailed for two years https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13039437/Crooked-solicitor-stole-94-000-elderly-dementia-struck-client-father-jailed-two-years-despite-trying-blame-wickedness-folly-love-starting-new-relationship.html Victims of […]

Suing the NHS. Can you claim for negligence?

Government to introduce legal costs cap to support victims https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-to-introduce-legal-costs-cap-to-support-victims NHS faces huge clinical negligence legal fees bill https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-51180944  This article is more than 5 months old Whistleblowers sacked by NHS fear no change after Lucy Letby case https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/sep/01/whistleblowers-sacked-by-nhs-fear-no-change-after-lucy-letby-case ‘The NHS sold out its staff’: Doctors whose lives were devastated by long COVID to sue health […]

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 […]

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