Victory For Petition UK Nurse Margaret Heywood is Re-instated !

    This news has been shared across the UK through the National Association of Local Involvement Network Members  who solidly supported Margaret Heywood alongside the Royal College of Nursiing ....

The Zero Therapy Elephant In The UK NHS Room Is Named

 Art De Rivers  UK Mental Health Watching Yes its been seen wandering across the UK ... Partly invisible perhaps but it's led to heavy marks in the grounds of many peoples souls .. Many have been been...

Mental Health UK - Hope = The Exceptional Case Review Mechanism ?

Art De Rivers UserWatching Mental Health UK  :  Opening Up The Knowledge About The Exceptional Case Review Route The UK Mental Health system does marginalise important numbers of  types of Mental...

Mental Health: Policeman Killing Enquiry - Public After Sept 10th

Art De Rivers  UserWatching : Five years to wait for a Strategic Health Authority report into a local killing of a policeman in Birmingham by a mental health User who was ill  - its a long time to wait...

The Disownership State Over Your Private Details In The UK NHS

The NHS  records "Spine"  concept as it was heralded is idealised as a method of taking local records and centralising them into a large DOH archive . Issues of civil liberty though have been largely...

Behind The Extra Tiers In Personality Disorder UK Services

This report will contain an update on the UK Wide Personality Disorders Spectrum Survey which has just captured its 81st input .Its a real achievement . I can just about find some other figures like 82 PD Users...

Patients And Prisoners of Pain Petition In The NHS Archipeligo -

More news evolves in the UK NHS but always from the tragic trail of those before . Its a case in the UK over time there are system failures and the NHS sadly has been put through so many rapid changes that have not...

The New NHS Financial Warp Drive Named CRES

The new UK NHS Foundation Trusts are not very forthcoming about where and how they generate Cash Release Efficiency Savings (CRES) .  You will not see too much paperwork and detail on that. Some of those Cash...

News Round Up UK Mental Health And Welfare Reform

Selective UK round up  - By Art De Rivers . Quite a number of things have been happening which affects the UK Mental Health Community . A brilliant article in the Guardian by Jonathon Rutherford: "The...

"A Nasty Scrap" : Editor Warns FOI Axes Are Sharpened For NHS

By Art De Rivers UK A confluence of stories , the latest and the biggest being MP's expenses together with the fall out from it show just how necessary it is to have a Freedom Of Information Act (FOI) in Britain ....

Parliamentary Questions Answered : MH Choice Re-appears!

By Art De Rivers UK Birmingham . In April 2009 a guidance document was issued by the UK Dept of Health  about  "Patient Choice" - The story was written up on  UserWatch  and features the...

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