It is now time for mental health clinicians, from all professions, to use the People’s Mental Health Review to “blow the whistle” and register their concerns about the services and system within which they work.
Last Monday the People’s Mental Health Review, a joint venture led by Mike King, Kyle MacDonald and Action Station launched. Since then the Review has received over 150 submissions most of them from people with lived experience of the public mental health system and their families.
“Whistle Blowing” can be scary for individuals, because whilst many people have already contacted Kyle MacDonald and Mike King with concerns about the Mental Health System, to speak publicly can put your job at risk. It is also true that some protests and media attention directed at mental health has looked to single out individuals for attack.
“People who work in the mental health sector have my word that the People’s Mental Health Review is not about singling out individual staff members for attack or ridicule. This is about driving change at a systemic level through stories” says Kyle MacDonald. “In fact, any individuals named in submissions will be removed as part of the moderation process. We want this process to be safe for all who participate.”
The People’s Review encourages mental health clinicians to use the anonymity offered by this process to safely speak out on the problems they see in front of them everyday.
“I talk to people all the time who really care about the work they do, and want to do the best for their clients, but because of some ridiculous rule or policy can’t” says Mike King. “Despite what people think, I don’t believe clinicians get out of bed in the morning and think ‘I’m going to do a crap job today’. For reasons we intend to find out, the system prevents them from doing a good job.”
Submissions from Psychiatrists, GP’s, Clinical Psychologists, Psychotherapists, Counsellors, Social Workers, Nurses, Occupational Therapists and all other Mental Health Workers are welcome.
“We believe that it is an ethical requirement for all mental health professionals to speak out about practices that impact the people they work with. The People’s Mental Health Review will enable these stories to make a difference.” says MacDonald.
“Last Monday the People’s Mental Health Review, a joint venture led by Mike King, Kyle MacDonald and Action Station launched. Since then the Review has received over 150 submissions most of them from people with lived experience of the public mental health system and their families.”
We fully support this clarion call for a whistle blowing of the urgent issues with the DHB metal health care facilities.
It is now time for mental health clinicians, from all professions, to use the People’s Mental Health Review to “blow the whistle” and register their concerns about the services and system within which they work.
I personally know of several patients mistreated by the mental health units.
As a mental health worker of long standing I don’t know of any patients who have been mistreated, I know of many patients who believe they have been mistreated, that’s the nature, unfortunately of mental illness.
I can identify up to 12 nurses at my DHB who have been assaulted in the last 2 weeks.With the reduction of seclusion events to try and improve the patient pathway to recovery Nurses have become punchbags.Nurses are voting with their feet, the only way to staff hospitals safely is with double shifts which compounds the work stress.
Whistle blowing? Here’s what’s REALLY going on – here’s how mental health funding is being spent unlawfully incarcerating local whistle blowers in blatantly corrupt, taxpayer funded, deliberate plans to pervert the course of justice by local Police, assisted by bent lawyers and crackpot ‘psychiatrists’! It’s cost MILLIONS, this little witch hunt, and that’s money that could have been spent on genuinely ill people in need of care – think about it, the EVIDENCE is indisputable – and anyone wanting to know what to do about it should get in touch with me without delay because action needs to be CONSTRUCTIVE and effective, and I don’t have any more faith in Mike King than I do in Louise Nicholas quite frankly, and getting people to “tell their story” when you’re dealing with vulnerable people, mental health patients, etc, can be dangerous – the Owen Glenn child abuse ‘inquiry’ springs to mind . . .
http://kate-raue.blogspot.co.nz/2011/07/stranger-than-fiction-crown-gives-up.html
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