Tag Archives: mental health
Schizophrenia is the forgotten illness
Rethink needed over a forgotten illness
ReThink Mental Health services Claire Hoggart
TO MOST of us, Eyre Street is nothing more than a big bus route and home to the Cheesegrater car park.
But to some, it’s home to a life-saving organisation, Rethink Mental Illness.
Rethink Mental Illness provides support for carers of mental illness sufferers, as well as housing support and advice. And James Barlow is at the centre of it all. He provides training and support for the family and friends of sufferers of illnesses such as schizophrenia.
“Illnesses such as schizophrenia can have a huge impact on the lives of carers. It can affect carers emotionally and financially – as many of them have to reduce their working hours in order to fit in their role as a carer.”
Caring for people with schizophrenia is made more difficult by the stigmatisation, lack of understanding and scant medical research on schizophrenia.
Brilliant event for carers in Great Yarmouth 21st November
A brilliant event has been organised to provide support and information to dedicated carers in Norfolk.
The Carers’ Forum, which is hosted by Norfolk and Waveney Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, will be held 2pm to 7pm on 21 November 2011 at Kings Centre in Great Yarmouth.
GPs take up slack for social care cuts
01 Nov 2011
Exclusive Dramatic cuts to social care budgets are placing practices under mounting pressure, with GPs forced to send patients to hospital because there is nowhere in the community for them to go, a Pulse investigation reveals.
Council-funded physiotherapy, speech and language therapy, elderly care and mental health services are among the victims of an average 4.7% cut in council social care budgets across England, with practices increasingly left to pick up the slack for axed services.
Key services for vulnerable patients – including legal aid, welfare services and public health campaigns – are also being hit.
This month saw Manchester City Council become the latest authority to announce millions of pounds of social care cuts, with services for the elderly, disabled, mentally ill and victims of domestic violence hit by a fresh round of cuts totalling £8.6m.
