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‘Unfinished care revolution’ lets disadvantaged groups down

The report adds: “The better-off have been more able to take advantage of the increased health investment than the less well-off

 

Report by Iain Duncan Smith’s thinktank slams hospitals as ‘untherapeutic and dangerous places’ for mentally ill people

The Centre for Social Justice report says that the changes in care, which abolished the distinction between psychiatric and other hospitals, are flawed.

The “unfinished revolution” of care in the community has failed the most disadvantaged people in society, according to a report.

Scope is to issue a £20 million bond pilot

Scope launches £20m bond programme

31 October 2011

 

  • Scope pilots £20 million bond programme
  • Innovative application of established financial product by UK charity
  • Bond programme could open capital markets for wider charitable sector

Scope is to pilot a £20 million bond programme to generate complementary funding for its charitable activities alongside the traditional donations and philanthropic loans it currently receives.

Care in the Community has been a failure for the mentally sick!

Care in the community is ‘a £100bn failure’: Mentally ill patients have been neglected for decades, says Iain Duncan Smith think-tank

By Jason Groves

Report: The Centre for Social Justice, founded by Iain Duncan Smith, said the cost of dealing with mental health was £6bn a year

The controversial ‘care in the community’ approach to treating the mentally ill has been a £100billion failure, a report warns today.

The study by the respected Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) suggests that many mental health patients have been ‘neglected’ for decades because the policy of closing down asylums was not accompanied by an increase in local care.