Beautiful event Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery to mark the unveiling of a blue plaque for the inspirational Benjamin Zephaniah, friend and patron INQUEST

.⁦Sean O'Neill⁩ on emotional impact of the inequality of arms at inquests - a state armed with lawyers paid from the public purse, a grieving family denied funding & forced to represent themselves to try and ensure proper scrutiny & systemic change. thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/…

1. I listened to the clear, concise and articulate evidence from Louise Slorance today. Why do bereaved families have to fight so hard for simple truths? What motivates us is learning lessons and prevention of tragedy in the future.

Disappointing from Mind x.com/Keirwales/stat…

Patients ‘traumatised’ by psychiatric hospitals warns watchdog independent.co.uk/news/health/me…

My rewrite of Mind’s prejudiced description of folk labelled with PD. You might: - Be selfless, fighting for a better world - Feel rubbish because life and services treat you badly, though you’re great - Be so empathic you forget your own needs - Be human, wanting love

Trial opens on 29 October of North East London NHS Foundation Trust (NELFT). They are the first ever NHS Trust to be tried for the corporate manslaughter of a mental health patient after being charged over the death of 22 year old Alice Figueiredo. independent.co.uk/news/health/al…

Chair Rachel Bannister this am. BBC Radio 4 Today on her exp. of CAMHS Today’s #CQC report highlights 'increased demand' &’staff shortages’ Sadly this is nothing new&why we so desperately need programmes like #OpenDialogue where staff retention is x5 higher than treatment as usual

I have pretty much no hope that this public consultation will actually change anything, but it exists, so I guess it's worth a go... In the thread below are some of my posts, perhaps we could get some more votes &/or more pressure for mh service change 1/ change.nhs.uk/en-GB/

Utterly shameful. This is not an isolated death but part of a systemic pattern. Time and again women are ending up in prisons which further inflict harm. Women prisons are fundamentally unsafe and need to be closed down and money reinvested in communities. theguardian.com/society/2024/o…

Great turn out of families, friends and campaigners coming together to remember those who have died as a result of the violence and neglect of the state and to demand accountability & systemic change so that these deaths end. United Families & Friends Campaign (UFFC) INQUEST #BlackLivesMatterUK

Please RT Mad In The UK Dr Anne Cooke Mad In America Kate Quinn Mental Health - Time for Action Foundation Dr Alan Kessedjian Dr Romana Farooq Dr Peter Phiri Rob Wipond Kouamé Sankara-Touré Discovering Community Psychology Oxford Psychologists For Social Change NWMH Graduate Nurses💙 Centre for Mental Health Nursing Manchester Mind Greater Manchester Mental Health

NEW Increasing Universal Credit by £25 per week would mean 95,000 fewer people would need mental health treatment, shows a vital new report. It would result in a 4% reduction in poor mental health among households with kids. Uplift is always cheaper+kinder tinyurl.com/2rxv7s6f

Another ‘advertoial’ article by Oxehealth in HSJ How would they define coproduction I wonder? Because all the evidence we’ve found when looking at the early iterations of the product, it’s very much something done-to people. For example…

“For a long time, I assumed that this repeated cycle of admission and discharge was to be expected... I could not envisage a treatment programme that did not result in the patient being taken away from family and friends at a time of such great need&vulnerability”…

Delighted to announce our chair Rachel Bannister will be at The House of Lords today for the launch of a much anticipated report from Beat ‘There’s No Place Like Home - The case for intensive community and day treatments for eating disorders’. #Eatingdisorders #mentalhealth

Unmet MH needs continue to be threatening lives and causing misery in Norfolk and Suffolk despite the spin from the 10th CEO since Radical Redesign 1 in 2013. Of course RRD3 will fix everything. WE NEED MORE BEDS! And therapy when ppl are admitted. edp24.co.uk/news/24679884.…

NHS sends patients to private hospital weeks after abuse allegations independent.co.uk/news/health/cy…

⁦Deborah Coles⁩ chief executive for charity INQUEST, which has represented families of patients who’ve died in care, said: “This recycling of services, despite damning criticisms, is a loophole that needs to close.” independent.co.uk/news/health/cy…

I know folk in the mh system who are terrified to end relationships (including friendships) that arent working for fear it will be used by services as evidence of personality disorder. The detrimental impact of the pd label on boundaries in relationships isnt discussed enough.