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Ward watch: Mind's campaign to improve hospital conditions for mental health patients
- Author:
- MIND
- Publisher:
- MIND
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 25p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report reveals two extremes of hospital conditions: for some patients, the hospital environment has provided the treatment and support needed to help them recover; for others, poor accommodation and security, safety concerns, insufficient staffing levels and intense boredom have exacerbated existing difficulties and created new ones, subjecting patients to an environment that is inhumane where it should be therapeutic.
Making sense of treatments and drugs: ECT
- Author:
- MIND
- Publisher:
- MIND
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 30p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Describes what ECT is, what it involves and how it works. Looks at the debate around the usefulness of the treatment, including user views of it. Concludes with a section on alternatives to ECT.
The hidden costs of mental health
- Author:
- MIND
- Publisher:
- MIND
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 33p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- London
The report is largely based on a survey of people with mental health problems in Mind’s networks. It was designed to find out what types of care and treatment people with mental health problems did and didn’t get prescribed on the NHS, how much people were paying, and the affect that this was having on their lives. Almost one in five people who paid for un-prescribed care and treatment were spending more than £100 a month for treatment they felt they needed. And out of the 58 per cent who’d said they had missed out, 70 per cent felt the lack of treatment had hampered their recovery or ability to cope. Where care or treatment was prescribed by doctors, 45 per cent paid an average £37 a month (mostly for medication, complementary therapies, and counselling/therapy). 51 per cent of people paid an average £61 a month for un-prescribed care and treatment (mostly for complementary therapies and counselling/therapy). Despite a commitment from the Government in its national service framework four years ago to make mental health a priority, this report shows that people with mental health problems are not given equal status on the NHS and are often forced to foot the bill for their own treatment.