“If You Are Not at the Table Then You’re Probably on the Menu”
Making good trouble: Clenton Farquharson CBE on co-production, equity and change
My name is Wendy Micklewright
I am neurodiverse – I am dyslexic
I hallucinate – I hear voices but I am not ill + I do not take psychiatric drugs
I am involved with a community group affiliated to the hearing voices network
The group decided we should be FREE – CONFIDENTIAL – ALL WELCOME
I have been presenting at my local Integrated Care Board meeting – as a member of the public for 2 years – please see below for further information
At the meeting in November 2024 – I was told by the chair – Mike – that this was not the table that electro convulsive treatment would be discussed at ….
I responded if not this table which table ?
Hopefully I will get an answer to this question at the January 2025 meeting
https://www.southwestlondon.icb.nhs.uk/events/board-meeting-november-2022/
https://www.southwestlondon.icb.nhs.uk/events/board-meeting-january-2023/
https://www.southwestlondon.icb.nhs.uk/events/integrated-care-board-meeting-may-2023/
https://www.southwestlondon.icb.nhs.uk/events/integrated-care-board-meeting-november-2023/
https://www.southwestlondon.icb.nhs.uk/events/integrated-care-board-meeting-january-2024/
https://www.southwestlondon.icb.nhs.uk/events/integrated-care-board-march-2024/
https://www.southwestlondon.icb.nhs.uk/events/integrated-care-board-meeting-may-2024/
https://www.southwestlondon.icb.nhs.uk/events/integrated-care-board-meeting-july-2024/
https://www.southwestlondon.icb.nhs.uk/events/integrated-care-board-meeting-september-2024/
https://www.southwestlondon.icb.nhs.uk/events/integrated-care-board-meeting-november-2024/
A friend asked why hasn’t Mental Health been abolished ?
I asked my friend why they thought Mental Health has not been abolished ….
They replied
Because doctor’s have too much power
Because pharmaceutical companies make too much money
Yet …
Court rules that patients have a right to disbelieve doctors
Ben Goldacre + James Davies books have been around for more than a decade
Dr Colin King’s petition – rename Maudsley hospital for race equality in Mental Healthcare
Hospitalized and traumatised at Maudsley hospital where Maudsley developed racist ideas that I was inferior, leading to being diagnosed with schizophrenia and sectioned
There, I personally experienced the deeply ingrained legacy of Henry Maudsley's theories on race, echoing through restorative practices: restraint, ECT, overt abuse, and discriminatory treatments
Henry Maudsley, the man for whom the hospital is named, was known for his eugenic theories alongside Galton, Darwin and Freud
He advanced the belief that mental deficiencies were endemic to certain races, classes and homosexuals
Assumptions that played into the racial biases of modern psychiatry and psychology
Assumptions that had lead to death of Bennett, Rigg and Olaseni Lewis
The Mental Health Reform Bill 2022, found that Black people are eleven times more likely to be diagnosed with schizophrenia,
five times more likely than White people to be detained under the Mental Health Act
Furthermore, Black patients were 29% more than white patients to be forcibly restrained in the mental health settings
In these alarming statistics, we see the lingering echo of Maudsley's unjust theories in the misdiagnosis and constraint of black communities
Renaming Maudsley Hospital in London is a crucial step in reclaiming the narrative of 'race freedom',
towards eradicating the legacy of these racist theories, a step towards redressing racial disparity in our mental health system
Let's sever this tie to our unjust past. I ask you to support this call for change
Please, sign this petition and encourage others to do the same to affect a systemic change in challenging racism in mental health
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2023 data |
Electro convulsive “therapy” ECT |
restraints |
seclusions |
Medication errors |
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Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust |
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680 “treatments” |
823 |
357 |
126 |
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297 “treatments” |
773 |
158 |
89 |
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Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust |
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21 people 179 “treatments” |
2316 |
59 |
359 |
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7 people – 53 “treatments” |
2717 |
60 |
643 |
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37 people - 352 “treatments” |
187 |
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Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust |
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452 “treatments” |
2229 |
645 |
1966 |
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Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust |
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20 people 396 “treatments” |
1057 |
59 |
1206 |
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Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust |
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Cumbria, Northumberland Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust |
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DO NOT DO ECT |
112 |
3 |
756 |
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Devon Partnership NHS Trust |
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Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust |
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East London NHS Foundation Trust |
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Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust |
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Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Trust |
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Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust |
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396 ECT “treatments” |
2884 |
406 |
965 |
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Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust |
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476 |
966 |
225 |
634 |
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Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust |
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29 people – 324 treatments |
3809 |
176 |
686 |
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71 people |
1302 |
197 |
905 Medication Errors / 573 Prescribing Errors |
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13 people 163 treatments |
1831 |
68 |
616 |
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33 people |
4313 |
819 |
3064 |
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22 people |
2371 |
111 |
1230 |
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Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust |
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North East London NHS Foundation Trust |
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20 people |
788 |
43 |
217 |
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North West Boroughs Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust - NOW MERSEY CARE ? |
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23 people |
1758 |
227 |
1337 |
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Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust |
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Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
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Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust |
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32 people 403 “treatments” |
667 |
16 |
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Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust |
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153 |
719 |
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Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust |
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DO NOT DO ECT |
373 |
34 |
760 |
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137 |
585 |
572 |
125 |
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69 people |
2634 |
281 |
1648 |
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37 people – 268 “treatments” |
2622 |
334 |
491 |
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South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust |
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Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust |
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546 “TREATMENTS” |
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442 |
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over 68 people |
1240 |
294 |
660 |
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7 |
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950 “TREATMENTS” |
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1512 |
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West London NHS Trust |
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24 people |
1084 |
DO NOT SECLUDE |
666 |
28 out of 53 trusts nationally responded
still approximately 1000 people receiving ECT per annum
about 100000 restraints per annum
about 5000 seclusions per annum
about 50000 medication errors per annum