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.
The NHS North West Board has approved the capital funding for Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust's Inpatient Pathway Redesign (IPR) Project. See the Trust's website for more information about this . This means that the Trust will now proceed with plans to relocate its inpatient services to two sites from the current three. The change will result in the inpatient beds that are currently at Edale House at Manchester Royal Infirmary being relocated to Park House on the North Manchester General Hospital site. The Trust says: "This will give us unprecedented opportunities to improve care to our service users and their carers." When the Trust announced its intention to close the inpatient unit at MRI we wrote to the Manchester Evening News to express our concerns about the extra burden this would place on some carers in terms of extra travelling time. The Trust's latest communication about the IPR states that: "The work in addressing concerns about ...
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