The mental health system is broken – a full independent inquiry is way overdue
The family of Nicky Stevens, the young man who died in 2015 while in the compulsory care of Waikato DHB’s…
mental health
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Dave Macpherson – OPPOSITION PARTIES SO FAR MISSING IN ACTION
With one or two notable exceptions, the three main opposition parties have to date missed multiple golden opportunities to raise an issue that a very large number of ordinary kiwis are highly concerned about. You only have to raise your concerns about the state of mental health services at any community meeting anywhere in New Zealand to see the nods of agreement right around the room.
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Dave Macpherson: Mental health – is the system broken?
Is the Pope a Catholic?
Of course it’s broken; let’s look at a few reports from the last fortnight:
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Dave Macpherson – Sshh…if you’re a DHB member, don’t speak out about suicide….
You would think it would be almost part of the job for a self-respecting DHB member to publicly speak out about high rates of suicide in their region. And you would expect fellow DHB members to join in and call for greater resources and attention to the issue in an area where suicides were twice the rate of road accident deaths?
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Dave Macpherson – Why isn’t this country talking about suicide?
In the last week, high profile mainstream media personalities have raised the issue of suicide and mental illnesses that can lead to it, mainly on the back of the suicide of a friend of one particular personality, Jono Pryor.
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NICKY STEVENS – 2 YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH WHILE IN THE ‘CARE’ OF WAIKATO DHB, WHAT HAS HAPPENED?
Dave Macpherson is The Daily Blog’s mental health blogger. He ran for and won a seat on the Waikato DHB after losing his son to mental health incompetence.
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David Macpherson – Nicky Stevens’ care was of a “good standard” – Yeah, Right.
For this Blog, I am writing primarily about how the Waikato DHB has handled the death of my son, Nicky Stevens, while a patient under compulsory care in their mental health unit, some 2 years ago.
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Mental Health Professionals know best (Yeah, right!) – Dave Macpherson Mental Health Blogger
For the overwhelming proportion of people affected by mental illness, full family/whanau involvement in their care and treatment plans is an absolute necessity, but is rarely practiced by mental health services around this country, especially inpatient services, and is actively scorned by many service staff, especially the more highly paid ones!
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Guest Mental Health Blog: David Macpherson – Coleman’s Pork-Barrelling highlights mental health deficit
One of the more unusual sights in the post-Key scramble for top jobs was that of nonentity Health Minister Jonathan Coleman putting his hat in the ring, and following up with the promise of more cash for the mental health sector.
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GUEST BLOG: David Macpherson – Mental Health facilities – poor care, avoided responsibility & side-stepped accountability
David Macpherson is TDB’s mental health blogger. He became involved in mental health rights after the mental health system allowed his son to die. He is now a Waikato DHB Member-elect.