Category Archives: mental health
Hospital Staff and pupils sing carols for carers and service users
Singsong for service users and carer
Staff from the Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust (RDaSH) older people’s services teamed up with pupils from local school, Burton-upon-Stather Primary, near Scunthorpe to entertain service users and carers with a sing-along, mince pies and coffee.
Parents who are carers should be included in a ‘Care Plan’
Mental health trust reforms legacy of artist’s suicide
8:00am Saturday 3rd December 2011 in News
A promising artist’s suicide has sparked a host of recommendations at a mental health trust nearly a year after his death.
Talented Philip Weeks was known by his friends and family as a loving, caring and charming young man who was always smiling.
He was diagnosed with rapid-cycling bipolar disorder in May 2010 and experienced severe mood swings and suicidal tendencies before he suffocated himself on December 7.
Concerns about Carers having to travel long distances to acute wards
Mental health charity joins the SOS battle
A LEADING mental health charity has backed the Mail’s fight to retain inpatient psychiatric beds in Burton.
Mind’s endorsement came on the day it published a report which campaigners claimed gave further support to their case.
“We appreciate that with the increasing emphasis towards mental healthcare in the community, there’s hope that fewer people will need beds on acute psychiatric wards,” said Ken Builth, chairman of trustees of Burton and District Mind.
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