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Five disabled activists who helped expose an “unlawful, unethical and unacceptable” mental health scheme have spoken of the huge personal toll their campaigning has taken on them, and the lack of support they received from the large mental health charities. The […]
Two NHS organisations continued to support a controversial scheme aimed at service-users in severe mental distress, despite being warned by police that dodgy data had been used to persuade other forces and health trusts to adopt the programme. The multi-agency Serenity […]
Emails released by a police force show how “hugely inaccurate” data was used to persuade NHS trusts across England to sign up to a mental health scheme branded unethical, unlawful and unsafe by disabled activists. The emails were secured from Hampshire […]
NHS England has refused to respond to calls for a halt to the use of a mental health scheme branded unethical, unlawful and unsafe by disabled activists, despite at least one NHS trust and a police force promising to review its […]
Disabled activists are calling for an immediate halt to the use of a multi-agency scheme that they believe is unethical, unlawful and unsafe, and which they say puts people in severe mental distress at risk of being denied vital support. Under […]