No Palantir
Click here to sign the open letter Open letter to ICB on the use of Palantir data services We have now updated the form. It can be signed by organisations and individuals. We encourage everyone to ask organisations they are affiliated to, to sign. Your name will not appear immediately, but we will collect […]
Call for Contributions! Share your story about life with voice hearing
The Trafford and Women’s Hearing Voices Groups are collaborating to invite everyone in and around Manchester affected by or living with voice hearing to participate in a new project. They want to create and publish a booklet with stories and poetry about hearing voices and similar experiences. The hope is to create more understanding and […]
Activism Therapy? What is it and why is it important to the CHARM Community
Activism Therapy is an emerging concept that integrates activism and therapeutic practices to promote psychological well-being, particularly among individuals facing systemic oppression, trauma, or marginalization. It draws on principles from community psychology, critical mental health, liberation psychology, and social justice-oriented therapy. What is Activism Therapy? Activism Therapy can be understood in two primary ways: 1.Therapeutic […]
Andy Burnham pleads with mental health workers ‘not to follow through with industrial action’: The mayor said he would meet with mental health workers to address the issue.
Mental health workers are gearing up to go on strike next week over care standards and understaffing.(Image: MEN MEDIA) As mental health workers prepare to go on strike over ‘dangerous’ conditions for patients, Andy Burnham has pleaded with them ‘not to follow through with industrial action’. The Greater Manchester mayor offered to work with mental […]
People with suspected ADHD are being told to wait seven YEARS for a diagnosis by GMMH
ADHD services ‘are receiving a very high number of referrals which far exceed the number of people we are able to support’, Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust has admitted Manchester Evening News, 2nd April 2024 The wait for ADHD tests and diagnoses has risen by years in Greater Manchester, the Manchester Evening News can reveal. Demand has […]
Mind reveals true extent of crisis in mental healthcare with more than 17,000 reports of serious incidents in past year alone
In October 2023, Mind, a mental health charity published 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 […]
