Dave Macpherson – 13 Reasons Why NZ needs an independent Mental Health Review
Here are 13 reasons why NZ needs an independent Mental Health Review…
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Dave Macpherson – Suicide Prevention Strategy shown to be a fraud
The only problem was, the Government didn’t like even the idea of a target they could actually be held to. Accountability is a concept for others, not them, so they had that removed, and other offending words sanitised, so it read like a pile of “PC waffle”, according to Panel member Mike King, who promptly up and resigned in protest.
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GUEST BLOG: Mothers day anguish, “Failing mental health system killed my son”
Mother’s day has become a day of anguish for our family since our son Nicky Stevens died while in the legal care of the Waikato DHB. This last week has been particularly difficult as we have had to witness the death of another young person in similar circumstances to our son. Our Mental Health system is failing too many of our young people.
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Dave Macpherson’s open letter to Health Minister Jonathan Coleman
Dear Minister – you will be aware of the recent death of a young Palmerston North woman who was given leave from that Hospital’s Mental Health Unit to ‘go outside for a smoke’, due to the policy of all DHB’s to ban smoking on their precincts, no matter what the circumstances.
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Statement re: P Nth Hospital secure smoking areas – management asked in 2015 to keep them open
The family of Nicky Stevens believe deceased Palmerston North Hospital mental health unit patient Chelsea Brunton would almost certainly be…
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Dave Macpherson: Dodgy Doctor claims health has passed annual ‘check-up’
While I was walking 4 kms around Hamilton Lake on Saturday, in the company of 500 other citizens aiming to draw attention to the high and worsening rates of suicide in New Zealand, a press release from Health Minister ‘Dr’ Jonathan Coleman arrived in my in-box.
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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…
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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?