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North East London behind on IAPT target after 'funding cut'

According to a report in the Health Service Journal, NELFT is behind on its Increasing Access to Psychological Therapies target after a 'funding cut'.

Jon Abrams, Redbridge Concern for Mental Health said: "With funding cuts and changes to the NHS and Local Authority services, it's crucial that the mental health services people rely on are sustained, developed and improved.

However, many people with mental health problems are concerned about local service closures and changes to services as well as waiting times.

It is also important to remember that Government figures show investment in mental health services has fallen for the first time in 10 years; yet demand is rising."

Mentally ill people 'hit hard by recession'

The economic recession across Europe has had a profound impact on people with mental health problems, research from King's College London suggests.

Between 2006 and 2010, the rate of unemployment for those with mental health problems rose twice as much as for other people - from 12.7% to 18.2%

Read more here

Unemployment and Mental Health Problems

Recent research in the Journal of Public Health demonstrates the damage of unemployment on people's physical and mental well being.

According to the research, it is estimated that a 1% increase in the unemployment rate was calculated to result in an extra 221 deaths per year, 35,624 cases of mental health problems and 52,571 cases of limiting long term illness.

Read more here

RUN-UP Newsletter

Read and download the latest RUN-UP newsletter and find out how VoiceAbility IMHA (Incapacity Mental Health Act) advocates are helping patients in Camden and Islington to speak out about the effects that bed shortages are having on mental health.

Join us at the NELFT Recovery College and Road Shows this Summer

Come along and find out what Recovery College offers NELFT service users and carers; pick up a prospectus and flyer; speak to staff and peers about the college and its courses and enrol on courses starting this September!

Road Show 1: Sunflowers Court, Goodmayes Hospital, Monday 19th August 12-1.30pm

Road Show 2: Mellmead House, Wanstead, Wednesday 21st August 12-1.30pm

Contact: Katie Francis, Redbridge Lead OT & Social Inclusion Lead
Tel: 03005551201
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Action for an accessible Crossrail, August 29 9.30am outside Seven Kings station

Crossrail, opening fully in 2019, is a new rail line linking Maidenhead in the West to Shenfield in the East, spanning London. Costing £14.5bn of public money this new rail line will not however be fully accessible to disabled and older people.

Seven of the stations, including four London stations, will not be stepfree to platform. Hanwell in Ealing, Seven Kings in Redbridge, Maryland and Manor Park in Newham, and Seven Kings in Redbridge have no lifts planned. A further three outside London (Taplow, Iver and Langley) will be out of bounds to wheelchair users and other disabled people

Meeting Point: Meet outside Seven Kings station at 9.30am and cheer our Crossrail torchbearers flying the flame for an inclusive railway.
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www: Transport for All

Local people know more about dementia thanks to RedbridgeCVS

Over a thousand local people from ethnic minority communities now know more about dementia, thanks to an awareness project run by RedbridgeCVS. As part of a project commissioned by NHS North East London and the City, Nisema Patel (Redbridge CVS's Psychological Health Community Development Worker) and colleagues from the Living Well Resource Centre spoke to over one thousand local people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities about dementia.

Films and discussions were used to impart information about dementia symptoms and care pathways in the London Borough of Redbridge in eighteen community settings on twenty occasions and in a range of different languages.

As a result of this programme, many more Redbridge residents have the knowledge to decide when it is the right time to approach their GP if they have concerns about this condition affecting themselves or a loved one, as well as now having information about healthy lifestyles that may help to delay the onset of dementia and a greater awareness of the negative impacts of stigma and discrimination that can surround the subject.

Fore more information, see the fullReport on Dementia Work.

A Criminal Use of Police Cells?

More than 9,000 mentally ill people a year are being detained in police custody despite official guidance that such powers should be used only in exceptional circumstances, watchdogs say.

The official investigation of the watchdogs finds that some of those being detained are as young as 14. The majority in a 70-strong sample said they were held after either attempting suicide or self-harm, or indicating that they were thinking of doing so.

Drusilla Sharpling, HM Inspector of Constabulary, said, "This report finds that too many people are being detained in police custody under section 136. Their only 'crime' is that they have mental disorders, but they are treated in many ways as if they are criminals. This deplorable situation cannot be allowed to continue."

Read and download the report here

Is someone hurting or upsetting you because of who you are? We're here to help.

Redbridge Concern for Mental Health is now a Hate Crime Help and Referral Centre. We offer a safe, confidential environment for anybody who has experienced crime, harassment or abuse because of their: race; religion; sexuality; disability; age; gender identity or mental health condition.

Talk to us and we'll tell you about the wide range of options and support available to you. You can contact us on or email:

For more information about Hate Crime Help and Referral Centres visit Redbridge i

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