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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

    This can only be corrected by strong and ever more draconian amendments to the already very weak Autism Act 2009 in our defence, with provision for far greater enforcement via far greater supervision and monitoring of senior management, along with police investigations and criminal prosecutions of senior management who are found not implementing the act correctly - only when the existing laws are properly enforced will we get anywhere, as for some people in positions of power, only the threat of criminal prosecution will get us anywhere as autistic people - we know what the problems are in minute detail, it’s now time to adopt a zero tolerance mindset towards their long litany of lame excuses and we must demand that they start listening to us and start to take us seriously - for some people in power, strong and far reaching legislation is the only way to get the message across - just look at how successful the health and safety laws have been, we have far greater compliance with these by comparison 

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  • in reply to Phased

    This can only be corrected by strong and ever more draconian amendments to the already very weak Autism Act 2009 in our defence, with provision for far greater enforcement via far greater supervision and monitoring of senior management, along with police investigations and criminal prosecutions of senior management who are found not implementing the act correctly - only when the existing laws are properly enforced will we get anywhere, as for some people in positions of power, only the threat of criminal prosecution will get us anywhere as autistic people - we know what the problems are in minute detail, it’s now time to adopt a zero tolerance mindset towards their long litany of lame excuses and we must demand that they start listening to us and start to take us seriously - for some people in power, strong and far reaching legislation is the only way to get the message across - just look at how successful the health and safety laws have been, we have far greater compliance with these by comparison 

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