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Police still being used in ‘punitive’ NHS mental health schemes, says report

By John Pring on 2nd May 2024 Category: Human Rights

Police still being used in ‘punitive’ NHS mental health schemes, says report
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Police are still being used as part of “punitive, exclusionary and discriminatory” NHS schemes in England that criminalise mental distress, an 18-month investigation has found. The Criminalising Distress report calls for an end to all such practices and the immediate removal […]

Document shows NHS England apologised for backing harmful SIM scheme

By John Pring on 18th May 2023 Category: Human Rights

Document shows NHS England apologised for backing harmful SIM scheme
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NHS England has apologised – in a co-produced document it has refused to publish – for its serious failures over the widespread use of a mental health scheme that it admits was discriminatory, coercive and punitive. Senior NHS executives had secured […]

Disabled activists end campaign after unveiling NHS England’s SIM scheme confession

By John Pring on 18th May 2023 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Disabled activists end campaign after unveiling NHS England’s SIM scheme confession
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A group of disabled activists has announced it is disbanding after more than two years of campaigning that has forced significant change to the way mental distress has been criminalised within the NHS. The StopSIM Coalition is announcing today (Thursday) that […]

Activists accuse NHS England of ‘betrayal’ over StopSIM co-production

By John Pring on 16th March 2023 Category: Human Rights

Activists accuse NHS England of ‘betrayal’ over StopSIM co-production
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Disabled activists have accused NHS England of “betrayal” after it went back on its promise to publish a policy – developed with service-users – that would have put an end to a mental health scheme branded discriminatory, coercive and punitive.  Members […]

NHS England’s StopSIM ‘betrayal’ is ‘ticking time bomb’ on co-production

By John Pring on 16th March 2023 Category: Human Rights

NHS England’s StopSIM ‘betrayal’ is ‘ticking time bomb’ on co-production
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NHS England has been warned that its actions could “plunge co-production into crisis”, after it went back on a promise to publish a mental health policy that disabled campaigners had been working on for 15 months. Grassroots groups and disabled activists […]

NHS trusts are still using harmful mental health practices, secret reviews show

By John Pring on 22nd September 2022 Category: Human Rights

NHS trusts are still using harmful mental health practices, secret reviews show
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Reviews carried out by NHS trusts across England into a mental health scheme branded unethical, unlawful and unsafe raised multiple concerns about its use, documents obtained by Disability News Service (DNS) have revealed. The reviews also show that many of the […]

StopSIM members speak of huge toll of campaign and lack of support from charities

By John Pring on 2nd December 2021 Category: Activism and Campaigning

StopSIM members speak of huge toll of campaign and lack of support from charities
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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 […]

Police emails show dodgy data was used to sell ‘unsafe’ mental distress scheme to NHS

By John Pring on 3rd June 2021 Category: Human Rights

Police emails show dodgy data was used to sell ‘unsafe’ mental distress scheme to NHS
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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 silent over ‘unsafe’ mental distress emergency scheme

By John Pring on 6th May 2021 Category: Activism and Campaigning

NHS England silent over ‘unsafe’ mental distress emergency scheme
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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 […]

Coalition calls for halt to use of ‘unethical and unsafe’ mental distress emergency scheme

By John Pring on 29th April 2021 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Coalition calls for halt to use of ‘unethical and unsafe’ mental distress emergency scheme
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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 […]

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