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Cash shortfall hits mental health services Country United Kingdom Date 12 August 2003 Mental health services face significant financial pressures and are failing to deliver improvements for users despite mental health being a top three health priority for government, it was warned, writes Katie Leason.
The warning came after research showing that 22 out of 45 trusts, which provide specialist adult mental health services had seen a reduction in their funding in 2002-3. The combined reduction amounted to 0.8 per cent, with three trusts seeing a cut of five per cent or more to their budget.
The research findings (Change in the Funding of English Adult Mental Health Care Providers between 2001/02 and 2002/03) support anecdotal reports that the funding available does not match the government??™s expectations for how mental health services should be developed.
The Royal College of Psychiatrists??™ report said that some trusts had ???large recurring deficits??? which swallowed up any additional funding, and that in other cases mental health trusts had to make ???substantial contributions??? to deficits in other parts of the local health care economy.
There did appear to be some redistribution of funding, with the three trusts subject to the biggest reduction having affluent catchment areas.
Mental health charity Mind described the findings as ???grim but not surprising news???.
???Despite headlines announcing new policies and new cash the experience about services on the ground looks to be getting worse if anything,???
said chief executive Richard Brook.
Source: Community Care Journal, 11/8/2003
"Humble.Life" humble.l...@lycos.co.uk
If any Mental Health professionals are lurking to covertly study us, please read my lips.
1: You do not listen 2: You act in a self-protective manner and ignore and do not perceive the main problems of service users.
3: You do not understand the difference in logic between shyness, bereavement, grief and mental health. You are paid to do so.
4: You have too many problems getting help when you need it yourselves, how is this a science that proves itself??
"mac" john_macs...@hotTmail.com
Good one! Also...
5: Explain to what degree your 'science' remains credible and relevant when there is visible division within your ranks concerning what constitutes mental illness and what treatment programmes are effective.
6: It's about time you reigned in the 'progressives' among your ranks who appear rabidly keen to cl***ify even the most innocent eccentricity as some 'syndrome' or other. More 'labels' equals more work I guess.
"tg" newspo...@mm.st
I have heard they are planning to add several syndromes to the next dsm incl '', ''Putting the milk in first syndrome' and 'Putting the milk in last syndrome' ;0) Seriously i think dsm lends itself to such goings on.
Whiskers catwhee...@operamail.com
In uk.people.support.depression on Thursday 14 Aug 2003 3:52 pm, tg snip buggerrit <groan> From bad to worse; great.
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"Humble.Life" Humble.L...@Lycos.co.uk
It is ridiculous, isn't it? All they have to do is listen... And stop putting there inexperienced milk in first...
My bit about "self protective" was aimed at the suspicion that they will make it easier on themselves by modifying the DSM to save their *own* position!!! I had no idea they were definitely going to do it... But obviously the flow of life over the last few years is making me quite intelligent...
Whiskers catwhee...@operamail.com
In uk.people.support.depression on Thursday 14 Aug 2003 6:39 pm, tg snip snip That's one thing they won't get me with - I'm a 'no milk' tea-drinker ;))
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Tim timo...@uton.org
When they call something a "syndrome" it means they haven't a ****ing clue what's going on, only what's happening. cf SARS.
Tim
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In a lot of cases they neither know what's happening or have a ****ing clue what's going on.There seems to be too much emphasis on procedurely rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic than effectively launching the mental health lifeboats.
"Humble.Life" Humble.L...@Lycos.co.uk
Blurgggh. Plffff plfffff. [gag] Plfffff. Blurgh.
Actually, no, I exaggerate. I've drank tea without milk many a time. I can't use it when it's curdled/separated that much anyhow.
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