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Talking with Voices
Talking with Voices: A novel dialogical therapy for adults with auditory hallucinations awarded £1.4 Million. A project GMMH can be proud of. Following a successful feasibility trial, GMMH was awarded £1.4 million to host a randomised control trial investigating whether Talking with Voices, a new form of therapy, is an effective treatment for people who…
Justice in Care Support Group
Zoom Meeting at 14.00 on Saturday 3rd June – All welcome If you are able to attend you can participate in the meeting by clicking here at 14.00 You can pre-book via Eventbrite here
High Court Application For Judicial Review Over Failure To Involve Service Users In Plans To Change Community Mental Health Services Across Greater Manchester
Source: Press Release, Irwin and Mitchell Solicitors, 31 May 3023 Public Law And Human Rights Lawyers Instructed By Service User To Issue Legal Challenge Into NHS Trust’s “Ongoing Failure” To Involve Public In Planning Process A man has launched a High Court legal challenge against plans to redesign community mental health services across Greater Manchester…
Edenfield and the Mental Health Crisis in the City of Manchester – How it is connected and can we sort it out?
This is the Briefing paper we prepared for the Manchester City Council Health Scrutiny Committee held on 24 May 2023 Thank you for the opportunity to join your discussions. We are writing this briefing document as an expression of our great concern about the state of mental health care in the City of Manchester. CHARM is an independent…
‘I was forcibly restrained and injected with medication I didn’t want for months’ – They were at their lowest and this is how they were treated
Helena Vesty reports the latest in the Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust saga – as those needing help most speak of feeling abandoned by those supposed to be looking after them and being ‘shipped’ to distant parts of the country in their most distressing days Helena Vesty ‘I said I didn’t want medication, I was…
Neil Thwaite, CEO of GMMH NHS Trust which runs Edenfield Centre to resign
Neil Thwaite, the CEO of GMMH NHS Trust in charge of the mental health unit in Prestwich at the centre of an undercover Panorama probe is set to step down from his role. Shocking footage in the BBC programme showed staff at the Edenfield Centre mocking, slapping and pinching patients as well as them taunting…
The system is failing and these people deserved so much more
Manchester Evening News look at the fall of Greater Manchester’s Mental Health Trust – they ask what went wrong and why are many of the board members who presided over the failures listed in this piece are still leading the trust? In recent weeks, Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust (GMMH) was served a stark reckoning,…
GMMH pilot project to reduce reliance on mental health services and promote eventual independence set for expansion following initial success
A pilot mental health service in the north west could be set for an expansion after its first eight months was heralded a success. The service comes in the form of the Home Engagement and Rehabilitation Team (HEART) at Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (GMMH) which was set up to reduce reliance on…
What went wrong at scandal-hit Greater Manchester mental health unit
Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust has been criticised by investigators ‘It has not served you well to believe your own propaganda… [take some] time off from cup half full for a bit’. In the wake of claims of mental health patients being abused in hospital, Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust has been slammed as independent investigators…
New GM police and Pennine NHS mental health scheme sees reduction in A&E admissions
Schemes to prevent people in mental health crisis ending up in hospital as well as save police vital time when responding to crimes are being piloted across the North West. It is believed between 20-40% of police time is spent dealing with mental health related calls and incidents, with figures in Manchester peaking during 2021,…
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