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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 Phased
    Phased said:
    What I was asking was what your suggestion for what a single public body to resolve the mental health and neurodivergent failings that the NHS have would look like?

    You're asking someone who worked for a large civil department for 40 years and failed the last selection process I attempted because the government wanted blue sky thinkers at the top levels, not pragmatists.

    As a pragmatists, I see the failings of all blue sky thinking. I  do not have the expertise to hazard any realistic suggestions on this issue, and with a fair grounding in macro-economics, I understand our government has a big current problem with the interest it has to pay on the debt we've accumulated due to Covid, the invasion of Ukraine and the US's war with Iran. All I can see that might be done in the current financial climate is throwing sticks in the air and reassembling them in a different pattern - but using the same companent part (the sticks) and no ability to purchase more sticks.

    So, although I agree we're currently trying to keep a 20-year old Ford Fiesta on the road to drive 50,000 miles a year, I can't offer any suggestions as to how to turn it into a new Bentley due to the way I'm wired. 

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  • in reply to Phased
    Phased said:
    What I was asking was what your suggestion for what a single public body to resolve the mental health and neurodivergent failings that the NHS have would look like?

    You're asking someone who worked for a large civil department for 40 years and failed the last selection process I attempted because the government wanted blue sky thinkers at the top levels, not pragmatists.

    As a pragmatists, I see the failings of all blue sky thinking. I  do not have the expertise to hazard any realistic suggestions on this issue, and with a fair grounding in macro-economics, I understand our government has a big current problem with the interest it has to pay on the debt we've accumulated due to Covid, the invasion of Ukraine and the US's war with Iran. All I can see that might be done in the current financial climate is throwing sticks in the air and reassembling them in a different pattern - but using the same companent part (the sticks) and no ability to purchase more sticks.

    So, although I agree we're currently trying to keep a 20-year old Ford Fiesta on the road to drive 50,000 miles a year, I can't offer any suggestions as to how to turn it into a new Bentley due to the way I'm wired. 

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