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Human Rights

May 3, 2018 0

Mental Health Act review ‘is just tinkering around the edges’ of reform

Mental health survivors and service-users have been left “underwhelmed” by the interim report of a review into mental health legislation in England and Wales ordered by the prime minister. One campaigner said it was clear that the review – chaired by Professor Simon Wessely –was “tinkering around the edges” of the Mental Health Act

User-led network could close as latest victim of competition from big charities

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A national network of mental health service-users, survivors and activists is facing closure next month if it cannot secure new funding, after becoming the latest victim of competition from large, non-user-led charities and private sector organisations. The threat to the future of the National Survivor User Network (NSUN), which was established in 2009, comes

More than 220 member groups of mental health network close in two years

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A charity is warning that scores of user-led mental health groups across England have been forced to close, many of them after losing out to large mental health charities and private sector organisations that have been “sweeping up” their contracts. Research by the National Survivor User Network (NSUN) has found that 221 of its

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Mental Health Act review ‘is just tinkering around the edges’ of reform

User-led network could close as latest victim of competition from big charities

More than 220 member groups of mental health network close in two years

Report finds support for efforts to find a social model of mental distress