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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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  • 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....

  • in reply to Phased

    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

  • in reply to Thpsguy

    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 

  • in reply to IrishInManchesterUK

    Phased, I think the example you've used about driving, says more about peoples sense of entitlement and attitudes to wealth and staus symbols that it doe's about training, after all they were probably taught the same as everyone else of their cohort.

    IM, I've never had a post diagnostic assessment either, I was told I'd lived with austism for 50 years and could continue as I had been. I share your feelings that to an extent I don't know how autism effects my daily life. I'm lucky in that I've never met anyone who thinks that I should live with ultra strict military discpline or in a care setting, if I did I'd probably laugh in their faces and give them a right ear bashing.

    For something that said to be so common, I've always found common sense very hard to find among people in general.

    How do you see a care system working in everyday life for people like us? What would it entail, what sort of support do you envisage there being?

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  • in reply to IrishInManchesterUK

    Phased, I think the example you've used about driving, says more about peoples sense of entitlement and attitudes to wealth and staus symbols that it doe's about training, after all they were probably taught the same as everyone else of their cohort.

    IM, I've never had a post diagnostic assessment either, I was told I'd lived with austism for 50 years and could continue as I had been. I share your feelings that to an extent I don't know how autism effects my daily life. I'm lucky in that I've never met anyone who thinks that I should live with ultra strict military discpline or in a care setting, if I did I'd probably laugh in their faces and give them a right ear bashing.

    For something that said to be so common, I've always found common sense very hard to find among people in general.

    How do you see a care system working in everyday life for people like us? What would it entail, what sort of support do you envisage there being?

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