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Communities for Holistic Accessible Rights based Mental Health

We are a campaign calling for changes in the way psychiatric services are provided in Greater Manchester.

We’ve teamed up with people with lived experience, trade unions, family groups and citizens

We are calling for a root and branch review and an action plan to transform mental health services in our communities.

Can you help? Contact us here

We have established CHARM, following concerns about the decision to rebuild the Park House Psychiatric Hospital in Crumpsall, North Manchester. We called for a review of the need for a large single site hospital and called for an alternative crisis support service providing place based support throughout the City of Manchester.

We have developed our own set of principles and demands for future service development in Greater Manchester we call the CHARM Demands that holds compassion, human rights and justice as the essential components of any health care system.

See our NEW Mental Health Trust Watch Page

In this section we feature articles about the Mental Health Trusts operating in Greater Manchester. Our intention is to be able to identify issues and concerns that arising across the services.  We do this through monitoring media coverage of mental health services in our City Region. 

If you have any information that you think we should know about and that we can share here please let us know.

Go here to see latest news on mental health services in Greater Manchester

Latest from the Blog

• Transforming Mental Health Services: Whole Person, Whole Life-Whole System Approach WorkshopMay 2, 2022
  with Paul Baker and John Jenkins Book your place on Eventbrite here Over many years in developing community mental health services to replace the institutional system in the UK and a few other countries, the IMHCN recognised that we needed a more fundamental approach to ensure better mental health outcomes for service users and family
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  CHARM Latest NewsMay 2, 2022
  Communities for Holistic Accessible Rights based Mental Health We are a campaign calling for changes in the way psychiatric services are provided in Greater Manchester. We’ve teamed up with people with lived experience, workers, trade unions, family groups and citizens  We are calling for a root and branch review and an action plan to transform
• Autistic girl, 14, unlawfully detained in hospital, high court judge findsApril 24, 2022
  The high court in London. Mr Justice MacDonald described the hospital environment into which the girl was placed as ‘brutal and abusive’. In his judgment, MacDonald refused to grant a request from Manchester City Council for the local authority to remain anonymous. He criticised the council for failing to find her a suitable placement throughout

• Transforming Mental Health Services: Whole Person, Whole Life-Whole System Approach Workshop
  with Paul Baker and John Jenkins Book your place on Eventbrite here Over many years in developing community mental health services to replace the institutional system in the UK and a few other countries, the IMHCN recognised that we needed a more fundamental approach to ensure better mental health outcomes for service users and family
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  CHARM Latest News
  Communities for Holistic Accessible Rights based Mental Health We are a campaign calling for changes in the way psychiatric services are provided in Greater Manchester. We’ve teamed up with people with lived experience, workers, trade unions, family groups and citizens  We are calling for a root and branch review and an action plan to transform
• Autistic girl, 14, unlawfully detained in hospital, high court judge finds
  The high court in London. Mr Justice MacDonald described the hospital environment into which the girl was placed as ‘brutal and abusive’. In his judgment, MacDonald refused to grant a request from Manchester City Council for the local authority to remain anonymous. He criticised the council for failing to find her a suitable placement throughout
• Mental health team didn’t believe mum-of-one posed a ‘significant risk’ to herself days before train station death
  Day two of the inquest in Stockport heard how doctors at the Bronte ward at Wythenshawe Hospital, where Kate was being treated after being sectioned under the Mental Health Act, felt her condition had improved enough for her to be discharged to the home based treatment team. This is despite earlier ‘manic behaviour’ on this
• Schoolgirl, 13, ‘did not intend to end her own life’, coroner rules
  Faith Hindle, from Salford, killed herself a day after telling an “overburned” mental health nurse that she feared she was unable to keep herself safe. She was pronounced dead at Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital after being found hanged at her family’s home in Cadishead on the evening of December 8, 2018. At an inquest at Bolton
• ‘Special’ son, 22, died after ‘never getting over’ his counsellor using gravestone reference in therapy
  A counsellor apologised to a client after using imagery of ‘a gravestone’ in a therapy session, a court heard today. Benjamin Davis then took his own life only a few months later, having ‘never got over that experience’, his father said. During an inquest in Bolton today (April 13), private counsellor Avremi Rosenberg admitted that
• Anti-psychotic drugs contributed to death of man with mental health history, inquest hears
  A man died after a build up of side effects from a drug he was taking to treat his paranoid schizophrenia led to his organs failing, an inquest heard. John Warren had battled mental health problems since his early 20s. He was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in 1988, a jury at Manchester coroners court heard.
• Family will have to wait for answers over son’s death at GMMH mental health unit
  Charlie Millers was one of three young people to die at Prestwich Hospital over a nine-month period. Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (GMMH), who run the site, have been ordered to commission an “external report” about all three deaths by NHS England. A pre-inquest review held at Rochdale Coroner’s Court today, March 8,
• Man discharged from MRI mental health unit died hours later after trying to take own life outside
  Daniel Kirton may have had his ‘right to life’ breached, a pre-inquest review heard today. A man who died after trying to take his own life inside hospital grounds just hours after being discharged from its mental health unit could have had his ‘right to life’ breached, an inquest heard. Daniel Kirton, 35, visited the
• Mental health service failings possibly contributed to dad killing his baby son, coroner says
  A coroner has delivered a damning condemnation of the mental health treatment of a psychotic man in the months before he threw his 11-month-old son into a river and to his death. The failures leading up to the horrific events which claimed the life of Zakari William Bennett-Eko on September 11, 2019, represented an ‘arguable
• Young woman who blogged about mental health battle dies in ‘serious incident’ at Cheadle Royal
  Beth Matthews died following a “serious incident” at the Priory psychiatric hospital at Cheadle Royal on the 21st March 2022 .It is understood that she had been a patient at the facility for several months. The 26-year-old, from Cornwall, blogged her mental health journey following a suicide attempt in April 2019. She fell from a
• Mother’s agony after suicidal daughter escapes from GMMH hospital despite being sectioned
  A worried mother says her suicidal daughter escaped from a mental health hospital on numerous occasions. The woman says her 21-year-old daughter, whose names are being withheld to protect their identity, was sectioned under the Mental Health Act and admitted to Griffin Ward at Prestwich Hospital ten months ago. The mother, who lives in Collyhurst,
• New £3m model of mental health support agreed in Salford.
  A new citywide mental health service has been approved, anticipated to support an additional 5,000 people per year in Salford. ‘Living Well Salford’, jointly funded by NHS Salford Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), Greater Manchester Mental Health Foundation Trust (GMMH) and Salford Primary Care Networks, is the name given to the new local system designed to
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  Response to The GMMH Working Together Strategy 2022 – 2025
  From: CHARM Families For Recovery Support Group, CHARM To: Claire Watson, Head of Service User/Carer Engagement and Improvement Dear Claire Thank you for sending us the draft GMMH Together Strategy 2022 -2025 and requesting our feedback. We have put five main points forward for consideration by the Trust (with further important observations included in the
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  Caryl Phillips: why David Oluwale matters
  Renowned writer and founding patron of #RememberOluwale, Caryl Phillips will discuss David Oluwale with LBU’s Dr Emily Zobel Marshall Tuesday, 26th April 2022 17:00 – 18:30 The Leeds Library18 Commercial Street Leeds LS1 6AL David Oluwale’s tragic death triggered an unprecedented number of creative responses from poets, artists and writers both nationally and internationally. The most well-known

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