Footprints In The Snow - Dementia

In the UK I monitor health systems with others . Mainly mental health .  I am a volunteer that has served on a statutory forum in 2004 - 8 but the law in Britain regarding health monitoring has changed since...

DOH UK Swine Flu Guidance For Mental Health Nov 30th 2009

Art De Rivers On UK Pig Flu Watch Odd as it sounds its real enough - there is Swine Flu guidance for UK Mental Health Services - its just been published .  UK DOH NOV 30th 2009 GUIDANCE HERE Perhaps it...

NHS Basildon and Thurrock Essex Trusts Death Rate Figures

Once again an NHS Foundation "flagship" set of Trusts has come under criticism for higher than average death rates . It appears the Basildon and Thurrock (Essex) University Foundation Trusts (FT's)  have more...

The UK User Led Personality Disorder Report Is Released -

Art De Rivers Mental Health Watching In The UK .  This UK Personality Disorder Spectrum Survey was first reported about on NowPublic.com and the report stage is a first of its kind for  the UK . As of...

Re-instated UK Nurse Thanks Everyone On Facebook Campaign

Art de Rivers : On Healthwatch ..  Margaret Heywood the sacked nurse  (see the last story)  has won back her position after massive UK support by the public that frankly overwhelmed the...

"Time to Change? " Yes Lets Look At The Role Of MH Charities

By Art De Rivers Mental Health User-Watching in The UK "Time To Change " is a Big Lottery and Comic Relief funded and backed social  propaganda and social engineering tool which is approved by the New Labour...

BOOOM ! Goes The UK PD Survey Past The Sound Barrier Of 100

Art De Rivers Mental Health User-Watching the UK Its been a hard job promoting a survey that Personality Disordered (PD)  Users in the UK badly needed and the plan was to create some mainstream publicity...

The Girl Who The Fairies Save Gets Facebook Help

Art De Rivers On Mental Health UK User-Watch Tabi Cockerton's story  has been reported on before on NowPublic.com . She suffers from a complex Dissociative Identity Disorder  partly rooted in extreme...

More Murders And The Altered Inpatient Suicide Rate In NHS UK

 By Art De Rivers UK  - Mental Health UserWatching . The BBC have reported some serious concerns about the rate of homicides in the UK NHS attributable to people with mental health (MH)  issues who...

Pattern Judy And The Killing Wards In Mental Health UK

OPINION : . For Mandy Lawrence : The vice is tightening on the mental health services UK . Out comes the individual stories . Always keen to "save money" and create "efficiency savings " and get the mentally...

Health Wars : Chemical Slavery Versus More Human Bravery

Across a number of mental health forums in the UK there are perennial debates which continue to be either pro or anti "meds" .  "Meds"  is the short form term  for the different  "medications"...

Launch Of The User's Personality Disorder UK Survey - R.I.P. Kate

By Art De Rivers UK Mental Health Story  UK Personality Disorder Spectrum Survey Launched May 27th 2009 Kate Logan of Gateshead passed away in 2007 and her friends spanned the UK and parts of the world. Kate...

Efficient NHS Whisteblowing ? Try 23 Assaults Later On Patients

By Art De Rivers Helen Crump of the Health Service Journal UK leads with a UK story : "NHS staff could have stopped abusive GP sooner 15 May, 2009 | Updated: 21 May, 2009 0:00 am | By Helen Crump An...

More NHS Detonations : Royal College Of Nursing Set The Fuse

By Art De Rivers . There is no doubt top-staff (NHS Hospital Boards,  CEO's and Executive Officers) have created a very expensive spending spree on managment consultants to guide them through the maze of...

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