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>From Andrew Roberts http://studymore.org.uk/ studymore@studymore.org.uk Survivors History Group 27.11.2013 Minutes and last 2013 Report Attendees: Andrew Roberts, Sheila Beskine, Ian Ray-Todd, Peter Campbell, Peter Barham, Nathalie Fo Peter McGeary (Notes). The group congratulated Ian Ray-Todd on being elected as a public governor of East London National Health Service Trust. It is responsible for mental health services in Hackney and Tower Hamlets. Ian was interested as while the trust set the agenda, they listen to governors who can speak for service users in time of cuts. Fellow governors are serious about achieving influence. While stakeholder meetings are corporate you try to work with the bureaucracy. Some successful nurses have a real influence in the bureaucracy. Members suggested ways that tracing family history might be done and attention was drawn to Sian Busby's book "The Cruel Mother" (2004). In 1919 Sian Busby's great-grandmo

(See also the PPLOG entry for 3rd June ) 4th December 2003. The meeting last night was a follow-up to the MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS meeting last Monday 25th November called by frontline staff of the Norfolk and Suffolk Mental Health Trust. Last Monday’s open generic meeting, packed and overflowing into the corridors of the Norwich Vauxhall centre, had pretty well unanimously decided something must urgently be done. Last night’s meeting was to decide on what actions we will take in the near future. The circumstances of mental health service non-provision demand urgency. We have: waiting lists of people needing treatment and attention stacking up because there is not the community staff to pick them up, an example was given of people waiting for prescribed injections which should only be started in hospital - no staff available and no access to hospital facilities. requests for assessment for (compulsory) admission to hospital unable to be met because so many hospital beds have been closed.