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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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  • To pick up on  point about a lack of morality and moral values from our leaders—I'm not so sure that it's strictly about morals and ethics myself. It's about them being fundamentally parsimonious. They are gripped by a short-sighted, false economy. As the numbers show from my responses earlier in this thread, they are willing to let mental health problems bleed the UK economy to the tune of £160 billion a year because they are too stingy to invest the fraction of that needed to build a self-sustaining community infrastructure.

    Personally, I would suggest that they are parsimonious because central bureaucracy psychologically equates "giving up funding control" to "giving up power." They starve the community hubs not out of a lack of a conscience, but because the systemic instinct of central politics is always to hoard resources, tick boxes, and self-preserve rather than invest in genuine, bottom-up autonomy.
    If that suggestion reveals that I am an uncompromising realist with a really attuned radar for bureaucratic illogicality and nonsense, then that makes me textbook autistic, I think. So I guess they got the diagnosis right!
  • in reply to Phased

    In simple terms, given my Catholic faith, I firmly believe and maintain that it is a moral and ethical issue, when we consider the public attitudes and perceptions of and towards autism, mental health and hidden disability issues and in terms of public education, where ignorance can no longer be used as an excuse in the Internet age - there are still those who point-blank refuse to understand and accept the reality of autism and hidden disabilities (even to the point of arguing that all mental health and hidden disabilities are fake and are regarded as a form of attention seeking) due to no publicly legally mandated training programmes that are not even part of the school curriculum - as a consequence, we are fobbed off, regarded as dysfunctional, not taken seriously when we try to express our support needs or on anything else, our arguments are automatically regarded as being wrong and invalid by default by reason of our autism diagnosis, where the horrific cases of autistic people incarcerated in mental hospitals for years being a prime example of this - there are many clear grounds for urgently required amendments to the Autism Act 2009 to provide for far greater enforcement measures and legal requirements for public education on these issues - if people were properly educated on the support needs of autistic people and those with mental health and hidden disability issues, funding issues would be at least diminished - strong and uncompromising legislation is one of many tools to change attitudes and perceptions, getting us the support that we need and deserve - advances in modern medical science only partially explains the causes of why so many adults in particular are being diagnosed later in life in our times, but it certainly does not explain why the lions share of mental health funding (which is a pittance compared to other health spending) is almost exclusively on children’s autism (important though that is) 

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  • in reply to Phased

    In simple terms, given my Catholic faith, I firmly believe and maintain that it is a moral and ethical issue, when we consider the public attitudes and perceptions of and towards autism, mental health and hidden disability issues and in terms of public education, where ignorance can no longer be used as an excuse in the Internet age - there are still those who point-blank refuse to understand and accept the reality of autism and hidden disabilities (even to the point of arguing that all mental health and hidden disabilities are fake and are regarded as a form of attention seeking) due to no publicly legally mandated training programmes that are not even part of the school curriculum - as a consequence, we are fobbed off, regarded as dysfunctional, not taken seriously when we try to express our support needs or on anything else, our arguments are automatically regarded as being wrong and invalid by default by reason of our autism diagnosis, where the horrific cases of autistic people incarcerated in mental hospitals for years being a prime example of this - there are many clear grounds for urgently required amendments to the Autism Act 2009 to provide for far greater enforcement measures and legal requirements for public education on these issues - if people were properly educated on the support needs of autistic people and those with mental health and hidden disability issues, funding issues would be at least diminished - strong and uncompromising legislation is one of many tools to change attitudes and perceptions, getting us the support that we need and deserve - advances in modern medical science only partially explains the causes of why so many adults in particular are being diagnosed later in life in our times, but it certainly does not explain why the lions share of mental health funding (which is a pittance compared to other health spending) is almost exclusively on children’s autism (important though that is) 

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