Skip to main content

More media stars!

By
Our Chair, Lindsey Cree and group member Dawn Perrry have both just appeared on BBC1 Breakfast News to talk about carers and mental health. You'll be about to catch them on iPlayer - their slot was at 9.15. It's so important that GPs can help explain the care system and signpost to sources of peer and voluntary sector support. Well done Lindsey and Dawn, you were great.

If you watched the programme and have come here looking for help and support there are various places to go. Our parent charity Rethink Mental Illness has a huge range of information and fact sheets for service users and carers available online and has a fantastic helpline open daily from 10-1. There are local groups like ours all over the country. Likewise, the Carers Trust provide a huge range of information, help and support for carers of any type and run a range of local centres (we meet at one of them).

If you live in or around Manchester you are of course welcome to get in touch with us and come along to our group meetings which take place every second Wednesday of the month at Manchester Carers Centre from 6-8pm.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Mental Health Screening in Police Custody: Recruiting for Research project

By
We've been sent details of a research project - details below if you would like to read more and get involved. The main aim of the project is to improve current practices surrounding the identification of mental health problems for people in contact with the police, through increasing access to timely and appropriate referral to mental health professionals . The project focuses on the gap in police access to mental health services on the evenings and weekends when there is a high turnover of people through custody. The project is a collaboration between the Offender Health Research Network, University of Manchester and LancashireCare NHS Foundation Trust. If interested, you are welcome to participate in the following ways; 1. Interview (1 x 1 hour) (May 2011 - Jan 2012) 2. Consultation Questionnaires (approx 4) (Nov 2011 - Dec 2012) A £10 mobile top up for participation in the interview and a £20 mobile top up for completion of each questionnaire will be provided. (Arg...
Post a Comment
Read more

Radio star

By
This Friday at 11am our Group Chair, Lindsey Cree, is being interviewed on BBC Radio M/c, 95.1 FM by Heather Stott. Lindsey will be talking about carers of those with a mental illness. Do tune in if you can. Good luck Lindsey we know you'll be great!
Post a Comment
Read more

Park House relocation transport update

By
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....
4 comments
Read more