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Category Archives: Depression
Norfolk and Suffolk mental health Skype ‘outsourcing’ causes concern
The Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust manages mental health wards at Hellesdon Hospital near Norwich, and around the counties
A health trust’s proposal to help treat patients with depression by using “staff from lower wage countries” via Skype showed a lack of understanding of mental health care, say campaigners.
The idea was put forward in a report to the government by the mental health trust for Norfolk and Suffolk.
Unison, which represents mental health staff, said the plan failed to show an understanding of mental health care.
A trust spokesman said the proposal was looked at but has been dismissed.
The plan, drawn up towards the end of last summer, was contained in a successful application to the government by the Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust (NSFT) to fund consultants to look into new ways of running the trust.
Emma Corlett, of Unison, criticised the suggestion that patients with depression could be helped by staff from low-wage countries via Skype
One option could see the NSFT become a mutual – a firm owned by its workers, as is the case with retailer John Lewis.
The report said the use of staff from outside the UK to help prevent depression and psychosis was a “new approach” to be explored.
Emma Corlett, spokeswoman for Unison at the trust, said: “Our view of the report is that it shows whoever did the application did not have a very clear understanding of the work frontline staff do or the way face-to-face therapy works.
Sinéad O’Connor talks Robin Williams’ death and mental health
‘people get treated like dirt’
She says that men and women with health issues are treated differently by the media
Sinéad O’Connor has spoken out about the death of Robin Williams to highlight that there is still a long way to go in breaking down the stigma of mental illness.
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