It's time for our monthly meet up this Wednesday 12th September. As normal we'll be getting together from 6-7.45pm at Manchester Carers Centre. Anyone is welcome to come along - just turn up. We'll have a few light snacks and drinks, catch up on how everyone is and hear from a speaker. If you're coming by public transport and would like to walk to the Carers Centre with us then we run a 'walking bus' from the taxi rank at Manchester Piccadilly station leaving at 5.30pm - please call Lindsey Cree on 07757 082 976 to let us know you will be coming.
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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