Category: Unsustainable
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The state of play you are paying for Pt 4a
Imagine being held responsible for this patient. He lives in ‘supported’ accommodation with everything paid for. It’s hard to conceive of a patient more determined not to co-operate with mental health (but at the same time keeping all the goodies). So far as I can see, the only way he could avoid us more would…
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The reasons why… Pt 3
Ok, I’m spending one more post (for now) driving a stiletto into this one-sided, hopelessly biased WHO document. World Health Organization & Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights . 2023. Mental Health, Human Rights and Legislation: Guidance and Practice. World Health Organization. Stay with me. There’s one more reason in this strand. I…
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The reasons why… Pt 2
Ok, here is the clue. (WHO and Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights 2023). The link sends you to this 2023 document. World Health Organization & Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights . 2023. Mental Health, Human Rights and Legislation: Guidance and Practice. World Health Organization. Don’t click on that link…
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The reasons why Britain’s laws and government are so generous to violent patients (and prisoners) and so harmful to staff working in mental hospitals (and prisons.) Pt 1.
An unwieldy title I’ll have to shorten. Have you ever wondered, not only why Britain’s laws and government have been made so generous to violent patients, but also why so many other countries changed their own laws, at the same time, citing the same reasons and aims? Obviously, I have. I’ve been scratching my head…
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Benefits Pt 1
6.5 million people in Britain are on benefits. (Does not mean 6.5m British people are on benefits.) A more useful figure is Britain has 4 million (1 in 4) working age people receiving UC and disability. (Pensioners can’t receive UC, jobseekers, PIP.) 1.9m benefit claims (all types) are made by foreign nationals. Of that, in…