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New Statutory body as an alternative to the NHS for mental health and hidden disability

IrishInManchesterUK

Now that advances in medical science has uncovered more people in modern times, children, adolescents and adults alike, including in the post-Covid era, with mental health and hidden disabilities including autism, is it not now time to set up a separate statutory body, properly funded and properly managed, entirely seperate from the NHS, dealing exclusively with all mental health and hidden disability issues? We all know the problems of the NHS that have been going on for decades and are well-documented, of mismanagement and wastage, so is it not time for a fresh start with a new body, alongside implementing reforms within the NHS?

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  • On the whole I agree with Alexa and have some additional questions and concerns, such as who would staff this new service?

    If you're staffing it with people moved from other mental health dept, social workers, psychologists would you not be in danger of creating another silo? All these professional groups create their own jargon and ways of understanding, they can also get very competitive over their individual disciplines. I've never seen a rhumatologist for my fibromyalgia, there's a shortage of them, I've never seen an allergy consultant despite have loads of them, there's one in Cardiff, but thats it for the whole of Wales, again there's a national shortage of them.

    Then there's the geography of where these hubs would be located,it might be alright if you live in a city with good public transport, but if you dont' the accessing them could be a nightmare and the very people who need them wouldn't be able to access them.

    Even if you got all these people working together, would they end up creating a bubble of thought and language that made them hard to speak to or users and other professionals?

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  • On the whole I agree with Alexa and have some additional questions and concerns, such as who would staff this new service?

    If you're staffing it with people moved from other mental health dept, social workers, psychologists would you not be in danger of creating another silo? All these professional groups create their own jargon and ways of understanding, they can also get very competitive over their individual disciplines. I've never seen a rhumatologist for my fibromyalgia, there's a shortage of them, I've never seen an allergy consultant despite have loads of them, there's one in Cardiff, but thats it for the whole of Wales, again there's a national shortage of them.

    Then there's the geography of where these hubs would be located,it might be alright if you live in a city with good public transport, but if you dont' the accessing them could be a nightmare and the very people who need them wouldn't be able to access them.

    Even if you got all these people working together, would they end up creating a bubble of thought and language that made them hard to speak to or users and other professionals?

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