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

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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  • And one more thing to add before I bail out to walk my dogs.

    The centres should fundamentally be tasked not just to help the person that comes there negotiate the problems they encounter.  They should address the systemic problems they encounter that cause them....

  • One thing that would stop issues ia if ALL staff in All Buisnessea had to understand all disablitys but Bo they go on a crap awareness course where a man in ansuit twoks them what aswers to give Eto pass a one page test

  • This is the very reason why urgent amendments to the Autism Act 2009 must be made, with far greater enforcement powers (in a similar way to the health and safety laws) and with massively increased provision for police investigations and criminal prosecutions of senior management who are found not implementing the provisions correctly - only when we as autistic people have ever more draconian laws to protect our rights will we ever get anywhere - there is no point in having laws unless they are properly enforced and there also needs to be greater monitoring and supervision of senior management specially provided for in any amendments to the Autism Act 2009 

  • please 'scuse me w/r/to answering a response to   

    I wrote earlier that

    Is it "rip it up and start again"? Well, no—because that'd just start another 5-year-plus round of committee meetings... The failure isn't the idea of such hubs; it's the flipping bureaucracy that springs up around it!!!

    so maybe a question is how can the bureaucracy be limited to a safe practical minimum and be ensured to be ethical and moral?

  • Another reason for the post diagnostic assessment is that ever since my later in life diagnosis, I’m still trying to figure out all the autism jargon and terms and I still don’t know how in simple terms how my autism diagnosis affects my everyday life - some people still believe since my diagnosis that the only way to manage my condition is being not allowed to live alone and to have ultra strict military style discipline which such people would see as “care” and “support” - it should not have to be legally mandated for people to have the common sense to know to do the right thing and to fulfil ethical and moral obligations - the whole system is wrong on so many levels, it needs to be totally dismantled and built again from scratch 

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  • Another reason for the post diagnostic assessment is that ever since my later in life diagnosis, I’m still trying to figure out all the autism jargon and terms and I still don’t know how in simple terms how my autism diagnosis affects my everyday life - some people still believe since my diagnosis that the only way to manage my condition is being not allowed to live alone and to have ultra strict military style discipline which such people would see as “care” and “support” - it should not have to be legally mandated for people to have the common sense to know to do the right thing and to fulfil ethical and moral obligations - the whole system is wrong on so many levels, it needs to be totally dismantled and built again from scratch 

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