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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]