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Paranoia: gaining understanding of useful ways to support a person who experiences paranoia: Online event, Tuesday, March 3rd from 9am to 4pm
A workshop where participants will gain an understanding of useful...
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CHARM’s Hearing Voices Workshop, Online event, March 2nd from 9am to 4pm
Participants will gain an understanding of useful ways to support...
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Autism Central Expands Guidance to Support Families and Autistic People
Autism Central, a national peer-education programme, has expanded its range...
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Concern Over Possible Relocation of Mental Health Services from the Rawnsley Building, MRI: A Call for Clarity and Engagement
CHARM has received growing concerns from staff, carers, and service...
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Manchester’s Mental Health Services at Breaking Point: What Families and Carers Need to Know
According to a reliable source Manchester’s community mental health services...
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COMMUNITY BRIEFING: A New 24/7 Neighbourhood Mental-Health Centre – What It Means and Why Manchester Needs One
What’s happened? The NHS has opened the first-ever 24/7 Neighbourhood...
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CHARM Reflection on re-envisioning mental health care and Open-mic, October 3rd – 4th
Over the past year and more, a diverse network of...
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Premature Deaths Among People with Severe Mental Illness in Manchester
Briefing: Premature Deaths Among People with Severe Mental Illness in...
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CHARM and GMCDP’s Response to the Oliver Shanley Independent Report into GMMH
In January 2024 NHS England published their independent report into the abuses uncovered by the BBC Panorama programme at the Edenfield Secure Unit. Communities for Holistic Accessible Rights-based Mental Health (CHARM) and Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People (GMCDP) find that there are serious omissions in both the findings and recommendations in the report: “Independent Review into the care and treatment provided by Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust” (January, 2024).
This Report Summarises our concerns.
Social Justice
Focusing on human rights and the social determinants which contribute to poor mental health, in order to better enable success for crisis services.
Mental Health Trust Watch
Monitoring media coverage of mental health.
There is growing evidence of systemic problems that have led to tragic outcomes.
Our intention is to be able to identify issues and concerns across the services and we do this through monitoring media coverage of mental health services in our City Region.
