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 are facing unprecedented instability. Evidence emerging from staff, trade unions, and service users paints a picture of a system struggling to function safely while undergoing large-scale organisational upheaval. For service users and families the situation demands urgent attention, transparency, and meaningful involvement. Below we have […]
Premature Deaths Among People with Severe Mental Illness in Manchester
Briefing: Premature Deaths Among People with Severe Mental Illness in Manchester Overview Recent national data reveal a deepening health crisis for people living with severe mental illness (SMI) in Greater Manchester. Between 2021 and 2023, Manchester recorded the highest rate of premature deaths among people with SMI anywhere in England. According to analysis reported by […]
Greater Manchester’s mental health Trust ‘missed opportunities’ to provide further support to a young woman who tragically took her own life coroner rules
Emily Whittaker was not given ‘additional assessment, treatment and care’ after she was discharged from a mental health ward, known as ‘the unit’, in January 2024 and another time when her GP referred her to a community based mental health service three months before she passed away. he court heard how after Emily was discharged […]
Mental health trust that is focus of a landmark Lampard public inquiry into patient deaths says it has “real drive” to improve the service and that “good will come of this”.
The boss of a mental health trust that is the focus of a landmark public inquiry says his staff have a “real drive” to improve the service and that “good will come of this”. The Lampard Inquiry is investigating more than 2,000 patient deaths in Essexover a 24-year period. It is England’s first examining mental […]
Prevention of Future Deaths: CHARM finds a clear growth in the numbers of people dying for avoidable reasons in Greater Manchester
In September last year CHARM wrote to the Greater Manchester Integrated Care Partnership asking the leadership to commission an independent audit of preventable deaths (see letter here), similar to the one conducted in Norfolk and Suffolk commissioned by the Integrated Care Board in Norfolk & Suffolk, following a campaign by activists (see background below). Our […]
CHARM continues to support the GMMH Manchester Early Intervention Teams Industrial Action
18th December CHARM continues to support the industrial action by GMMH staff from the Early Intervention Teams. Our support has been very much appreciated by the workers and our continuing conversatio0ns on the picket line and the attendance of the Team at out CHARM meetings has led to a close working relationship with frontline workers […]
