Having used clinic 7 over
many years and been refused any help by (AWP) Community Mental Health in 2003,
I have very little confidence in there being adequate service provision in the
future, if "clinic 7" goes. I was offered 24 weeks CAT therapy by
(AWP) in 2011, after many grim years. This was ended abruptly with substantial
pressure to move into the private sector. Sorting out and paying for a new
therapistis a big ask in depression and contravenes the most basic NHS principles when suicide lives on your shoulder, tantamount to
unethical actually.
With the community teams
moving to a new base, it is already noticeable how dramatically less accessible
they are. Any suggestion that Community Mental Health will step in should be
refuted immediately and is already a joke.
Clinic 7 accepted my GPs referral
and has offered support for many years, without threatening deadlines. Clinic 7
doesn't evict you after a preset time or when a patient still is in a bad or even worse place. Remarkably. Dr Malizia keeps trying and I need his
confidence that a solution can be found. Dr
Malizia has an ongoing input on a regular basis trying to help me cope with
this depressive episode, I have minimal expectation of adequate alternatives
being offered come September. His experience and expertise does of course have
a price but his input has kept me working and paying taxes, so I am sure it is
cost effective at a societal level.
No-one I work with has any
idea of my health issues; the latter primarily resulting from bereavement which
left me bringing up small children on my own.
.
Abandoning Clinic 7 patients
will cost so much more elsewhere and in the health service, very quickly I
suspect.
2 comments:
The community teams have compounded the pressure on their patients by re-organising their clinical teams by postcode and re-allocating care co-ordinators to established patients. Thus many patients now have to start all over again with a new care co-ordinator, so the value of previous established relationships and knowledge are lost. It is a huge deal to have to start back at the begining with someone new; I don't think I can do it! I do now understand why I have been unable to contact my care co-od since the end of May!!!!Clinic 7 has not abandonned patients in this way + is desperately trying not to now.
uncertainty is one of the biggest threats to patients with mental health problems; for AWP to keep adding more and more uncertainty to the provision of future mental health services is cruel and they know it
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