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PUBLIC MEETING STATEMENT AND REPORT Saturday, 10 December 2- 4 pm 60 people attended the public meeting. We heard both inspiring and challenging stories from people with lived experience, family members, workers and concerned citizens. Our keynote speakers were: Dainius Puras, psychiatrist, former UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Mental Health speaks about theContinue reading ““We need to be heard and you need to listen” is clear message from CHARM Public Meeting”

Roberto Mezzina, psychiatrist, Vice President of the World Federation for Mental Health, retired director of Trieste Mental Health Department.

Dainius Pūras, psychiatrist, former UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Mental Health speaks about the predominant importance of human rights in shifting the thinking and practice of bio-medical psychiatry across the world and in Manchester. The public meeting was held in Manchester on International Human Rights Day to call for a mental health serviceContinue reading “Dainius Pūras, psychiatrist, former UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Mental Health”

A dad who asked for a bed at mental health hospital died hours after being told he would not be admitted, an inquest heard. Darren McHugh, 39, told mental health professionals he was hearing voices, felt paranoid and wanted to be treated on a mental health ward. He thought an inpatient bed was being foundContinue reading “Dad struggling with his mental health died hours after asking hospital staff for a bed”

Daniel Kirton tragically died following the collision, which came after he had attempted to take his own life on hospital grounds following his discharge by mental health practitioners. He had attended Manchester Royal Infirmary’s emergency department earlier that afternoon, December 3, 2020, and was assessed by staff from the Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation TrustContinue reading “Coroner asks GMMH “Is it ever appropriate to tell a patient ‘we will see you tomorrow’ if a referral had not been made?”

The rate of people from black backgrounds being restrained in mental healthcare has more than doubled in the past six years, widening the gap with other racial groups, according to official NHS data. Standardised rates of black and black British people subject to restrictive interventions – including physical, chemical and mechanical restraints – have leapt from 52.1Continue reading “‘Staggering’ rise in restraint of black people in mental healthcare”

A recently published report highlights the shortcomings in care provided by the NHS. Peter Walsh, Joanne Hughes and James Titcombe emphasise how millions could be saved if people were empowered early on to have their needs met without the need to turn to litigation NHS scandal after NHS scandal over decades has sparked outrage andContinue reading “People harmed by the NHS are still being left to fend for themselves”

PRESS RELEASE  25th November 2022 From CHARM, Communities For Accessible Rights based Mental Health Concerns raised by CHARM, service users, their families, and staff, some of which have been presented through the media have led to NHS England commissioning an independent review into the services provided by GMMH. The Trust has also been placed in ‘intensive care’Continue reading “Charm’s response to the placing of Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust in ‘intensive care’ by NHS”

Warning notices were served after the Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspected the Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (GMMH). On Wednesday the trust was told it would face the highest level of intervention from NHS England. The trust said improvement work was already under way. A BBC Panorama investigation, broadcast in September, found patientsContinue reading “Greater Manchester NHS mental health trust ordered to improve”