Manchester Users Network has called a public meeting after finding that Manchester has the highest suicide rate of all cities in England. The meeting will be held from 2-4pm on Tuesday 26th June in the Main Hall of Friends Meeting House, 6 Mount Street, Manchester, M2 5NS. Contact Alan on 0161 918 4343 or 0771 910 2380 for more details.
As readers of this blog may know, Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust is in the process of relocating psychiatric inpatient services from Edale House at the Central Manchester Hospital (MRI) site to Park House at North Manchester General Hospital. We've always been concerned about the impact that this move will have on carers and service users in terms of increased transport times. A representative from the Trust came to our meeting last month to update us on plans for transport and the Trust's latest newsletter contains the following update on the service user and carer transport sub-group: "The group last met on 6 February and it was decided that another visitor questionnaire should be undertaken to make sure that we make the right decisions about transport. It was also agreed that more engagement and communication with service users is necessary and the service users and carers who attend the meetings will support this....
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