Tens of millions of pounds needed to repair crumbling buildings at the Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust
Tens of millions of pounds is needed to restore crumbling buildings to full working order at the Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust, new figures show. Manchester World, 21/02/2024 Tens of millions of pounds is needed to restore crumbling buildings to full working order at the Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust, new figures show. Across England, […]
The Women’s Hearing Voices Group in Manchester
The Women’s Hearing Voices Group in Manchester is a community peer support group. It is a safe space for women to talk with each other about personal experiences of hearing voices or having other unshared sensory experiences. About The group meets twice a month – on the 1st and 3rd Thursday of each month. The group started […]
Independent report into abuses at GMMH published – see main findings and recommendations
Source: BBC News, 01/02/2024 Here is a useful summary from the BBC of the main findings of the recently published independent report into GMMH and Edenfield. The report outlines a series of recommendations for the trust, which include ensuring patient, family and staff voices are heard “at every level” and creating a culture where quality of […]
Mental health patients ‘raped and sexually assaulted’ in NHS care as ‘national scandal’ revealed
Patient 11, a new podcast investigation by Sky News and The Independent, uncovers nearly 20,000 complaints of sexual assault, abuse and harassment across mental health trusts in England since 2019. Source: Sky News, 29/01/24 Mental health patients have alleged they were raped and sexually assaulted while being treated by the NHS, in what has been […]
Mental health bosses can’t say whether disgusting patient abuse uncovered in Greater Manchester hospital is still happening
Some staff were filmed by an undercover Panorama reporter embedded in the unit, the footage appeared to show patients being bullied, humiliated, swore at and tauntedMental health bosses could not say whether the kind of abuse uncovered in one in-patient psychiatric facility is still happening across Greater Manchester’s mental health services. Manchester Evening News, 22 […]
Nearly a third of staff absences in the Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust are stress-related
Nearly a third of staff absences in the Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust over the past year were stress-related, new figures show. Source: Manchester World, 1/12/2023 Health think tank The King’s Fund said staff shortages across the NHS must be addressed to ease stress and heavy workloads. NHS Digital figures show there were roughly 48,500 […]
