The weather could be better – it is raining today in the UK.  Elizabeth has been stuck on the stuffy ward for 2 days thanks to the Consultant Psychiatrist imposing his sanctions and punishment on accountof her behavioiur caused by his actions in reducing and mixing medications – then he dishes out punishment like to a small child only Elizabeth is 25 years of age and the punishment has also extended to me like a slap on the wrist.

 

The furtherst thing right now on the minds of these “professionals” are the patients stuck on the boring wards with nothing to do.   There was no flags or evidence of any celebration on the hospital site.  They could have done things nice for the patients – there is money to be spent on printing literature and so forth so why could they not arrange a little street party on the site of the Royal Bethlem Hospital?

 

Why deprive Elizabeth of going to a street party with me just up the road.   THIS IS CRUEL ABUSE. 

I do not know whether any earlier celebrations had taken place but IT IS JUBILEE WEEKEND AND WITH A TITLE LIKE ROYAL BETHLEM I AM APALLED THAT THIS HOSPITAL IS NOT DOING ANYTHING NICE FOR THE PATIENTS AND THE HIGHLY PAID EXPERTS ARE ENJOYING THEIR WEEKEND WITH THEIR FAMILIES WITHOUT A SECOND THOUGHT ABOUT THE PATIENTS LEFT WITH NOTHING.

Getting back to yesterday my first reaction was one of extreme upset as it takes me a while to get over there and I am devoted to Elizabeth – I had no idea how awful this place was and thought it was a leading hospital that would help give her a proper drug free assessment.   This has not been done properly in accordance with the leading professors written promise. 

No assessment can possibly be done accurately therefore in the circumstances and no doubt the Consultant Psychiatrist will back up the previous team and say YES THE LABEL FITS.  HOWEVER WHAT ABOUT THE OTHER EXPERT’S OPINION – IT IS LIKE THE BULK OF THE TEAM STICKING TOGETHER TO DEFEND ONE ANOTHER AND ANOTHER EXPERT HIGHLY QUALIFIED DISAGREES.    ANYWAY I DISAGREE WITH THEM.   I AM JUST A MOTHER BUT HAVE SOUGHT EXPERT PROFESSIONAL ADVICE OUTSIDE OF THIS APALLING SYSTEM AND HAVE LEARNT THE AWFUL TRUTH – I HAVE INTERVIEWS OF LAUGHING PSYCHIATRISTS INCLUDING ONE FROM THE MAUDSLEY JOKING ABOUT IT TAKING 2 MINUTES TO COME UP WITH A DIAGNOSIS.  YOU SIMPLY CANNOT JUST COME UP WITH A DIAGNOSIS BY OBSERVATION.  THERE NEEDS TO BE PROPER SCIENTIFIC TESTS AND THERE ARE NONE WHATSOEVER.  

IT IS THE DRUGS THAT MAKE SOMEONE PSYCHOTIC.  DR TRACY GIVES THE REASON FOR THIS BASED UPON RESEARCH BY EXPERTS.   THIS RESEARCH IS BEING IGNORED BY PROFESSIONALS AND MOST OF THESE PROFESSIONALS DO NOT WANT TO READ THE FULL FACTS AND THEY JUST CARRY ON DISHING OUT THE DRUGS LIKE SWEETS AGAINST A PATIENT’S WISHES BECAUSE YOU SIMPLY CANNOT JUST COME OFF THEM.  YOU NEED JPROFESSIONAL HELP TODO THIS AND ELIZABETH IS IN THE RIGHT PLACE BUT THEY DO NOT WANT TO HELP AND I WANT THE WORLD TO KNOW THAT ONE DAY GOD FORBID IF ELIZABETH IS STILL STUCK IN THIS CRUEL SYSTEM AND DRUGGED UP TO HER NECK ON CHEMICALS THAT THE TEAM ARE RESPONSIBLE BECAUSE THEY HAVE REFUSED TO LISTEN.

  

Dr David Healy documents a riveting and terrifying story that affects us all.

PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES HAVE HIJACKED HEALTHCARE IN AMERICA AND THE RESULTS ARE LIFE THREATENING.

 

THE FDA ARE APPROVING DRUGS THAT ARE HIGHLY DANGEROUS AND THEY HAVE NOT RESPONDED TO MY LETTER.

 

THE CONSULTANT PSYCHIATRIST AND PHARMACIST AT THE ROYAL BETHLEM HOSPITAL HAVE IGNORED ALL THE FORMS I HAVE SENT THEM TO SAY THEY ARE HAPPY WITH THE SAFETY OF THESE DRUGS.   IT IS OBVIOUS THAT THEY ARE UNSURE OTHERWISE THEY WOULD NOT HESITATE TO SIGN AND THIS SAYS IT ALL.

 

IT IS OK TO DISH OUT HARMFUL DRUGS LIKE THEY DO UNDER THE NHS CARE FOR MENTAL HEALTH PATIENTS BUT THEY ARE NOT TAKING INTO CONSIDERATION LONG TERM HEALTH AND SERIOUS PROBLEMS SUCH AS DIABETES, LUNG, KIDNEY, HEART ETC ETC.   THEY JUST CARRY ON ABUSING PATIENTS WITH THESE POWERFUL MIND ALTERING LSD EFFECT DRUGS AND ARE TOO LAZY TO READ THE FULL FACTS AND RESEARCH.

FOR INSTANCE THE PSYCHIATRIST IN CHARGE OF MY DAUGHTERS CARE REFUSED TO TAKE AN INTEREST IN ALL THE LITERATURE I BROUGHT UP AND CDS ETC FROM DR ANN BLAKE TRACY AND I HAVE JUST DROPPED IN A BOOK BY DR CANDACE PERT CALLED MOLECULES OF EMOTION.  SHE IS ONE OF THE CREATORS OF THESE DRUGS AND NEXT I WANT TO PURCHASE THE BOOK CALLED PHARMAGEDDON BY PROFESSOR HEALY.   THE CONSULTANT PSYCHIATRIST SAID WORDS TO THE EFFECT OF HE HAD ENOUGH READING TO DO AND WAS VERY DISMISSIVE BUT AT THE SAME TIME HE SAID HE WAS LISTENING.   IF HE WAS LISTENING THEN WHY ON EARTH DOES HE NOT COMMUNICATE.  INSTEAD HE HAS IMPOSED SANCTIONS AND PUNISHMENT AGAINST ME BY NOT ALLOWING MY DAUGHTER TO COME OUT WITH ME ON JUBILLEE WEEKEND TO PARTIES AND CELEBRATIONS. 

It is Jubillee weekend, a time for celebration in the UK and I was looking out street parties and things to take Elizabeth to as I only get to see her for a short while on Saturday.

Anyway I turned up at the ward to be told by staff they had been given instructions by the Consultant Psychiatrist that it would NOT be allowed for me to take her out unless someone escorted us.    This is despite the fact that Elizabeth is not in the slightest bit volatile or making threats to anyone.  I FEEL THIS IS PURELY TO GET BACK AT ME, AS THE CONSULTANT PSYCHIATRIST WHO SMILES THROUGH MEETINGS WOULD LIKE TO DESTROY THINGS BETWEEN THE TWO OF US.   THIS SORT OF THING GOES ON UNDER THE BRITISH MENTAL HEALTH SYSTEM RUN BY THE NHS. THERE IS TOO MUCH POWER AWARDED TO DOCTORS LIKE THIS AND SOCIAL WORKERS WHO THINK THEY ARE ABOVE THE LAW.  THE LAW SHOULD BE MUCH FAIRER TO STOP THE ABUSE THAT IS GOING ON. 

Please do not get me wrong and mistake the fact that I hate all of the NHS.  There are some very good professional nurses and even doctors on the surgical wards but under the mental health, there is much abuse going on.  I have lost count of how many times I have heard patients complaining about their rights not being listened to.  JUST BY PUNISHING ME LIKE THIS IS ALSO HURTING ELIZABETH BECAUSE NOONE COULD ACCOMPANY US OUT AS THEY WERE SHORT STAFFED AND ON A VERY NICE DAY AND A WEEKEND FULL OF CELEBRATIONS OVER HERE IN THE UK ELIZABETH WAS LEFT TO BE COUPED UP ON THE WARD NOT EVEN GETTING ANY FRESH AIR.   I DO NOT THINK SHE WENT OUT YESTERDAY EITHER.   WE USED TO GO OUT SHOPPING AND TO THE CINEMA  WHAT CRUEL ABUSE IN A SO CALLED DEMOCRATIC AND CIVILISED COUNTRY.   WHAT IS THE POINT OF PUNISHING A HELPLESS VULNERABLE PERSON IN THIS WAY.    I WENT OUT AND GOT ELIZABETH SOME SHOPPING AND LOST COUNT HOW MANY TIMES SHE RANG ASKING IF I WAS ON MY WAY BACK.   IT IS REALLY HORRIBLE WHAT IS GOING ON.

 

THE OTHER PERSON WHO IS BELIEVE ALSO HAS GOT IT IN FOR ME IS THE SOCIAL WORKER –  THIS WOMAN LIKE THE CONSULTANT PSYCHIATRIST HAS SMUGLY SMILED THROUGH MEETINGS.  I FIND THIS BEHAVIOUR MOST UNPROFESSIONAL AND I ASKED FOR A REPLACEMENT, SOMEONE WHO TOOK M ATTERS SERIOUSLY NOT AS ONE BIG JOKE AND I WAS ALSO  ALARMED AND CONCERNED THAT A SOCIAL WORKER SHOULD TAKE IT UPON HERSELF TO TRY AND PERSUADE MY DAUGHTER TO TAKE CLOZAPINE.   WHAT ON EARTH IS SO GOOD ABOUT THIS DRUG!!!!  I KNOW OF SEVERAL PEOPLE WHO HAVE SUFFERED HEART PROBLEMS AND IT CARRIES WITH IT 3 BLACK BOX WARNINGS THAT IT SHOULD NOT BE GIVEN TO ANYONE WITH A HISTORY OF HEART PROBLEMS.    HOWEVER, THEY ARE ALL EXTREMELY DANGEROUS DRUGS AND GIVEN TO SOMEONE WHO IN THE FIRST INSTANCE WAS THE VICTIM OF CRIME –  NEEDED COUNSELLING BUT INSTEAD WAS PUSHED BY THESE SO CALLED PROFESSIONALS ON ALL THOSE DRUGS ON MY LEAFLET WHICH AMOUNT TO 11 AND STILL THEY CONTINUE WITH THIS POISONING OF MY DAUGHTER WHO HAS SEVERAL DIAGNOSES.    THE ONLY WAY TO REALLY FIND OUT IS TO OPEN SOMEONE’S HEAD AND THERE IS NO SUCH SURGERY – GOD FORBID.   IT IS ALL BASED ON TRIAL AND ERROR – GUESSWORK AND THIS HAS BEEN ADMITTED TO ME AT LOCAL LEVEL AND THE DRUGS ARE EXPERIMENTED ON THAT PERSON.   SOME WORK TO BEGIN WITH BUT THEN WHEN THEY WEAR OFF THE CONSULTANT PSYCHIATRIST HAS TO LOOK FOR ANOTHER DRUG – THAT IS WHAT HAPPENED TO ELIZABETH ON SEROQUEL – SHE WAS SUFFERING FROM A SERIOUS CONDITION CALLED AKATHISIA – A DIRECT RESULT OF THE DRUG ITSELF.  THE DRUGS ACT LIKE LSD AND CAUSE HALLUCINATIONS.  IT IS EASY TO JUST PUSH DRUGS ON POOR HELPLESS VULNERABLE PATIENTS AND THEN THEY PUT PRESSURE ON THEM BEHIND THE CLOSED DOORS OF THE WARDS.  ONCE UNDER THEIR CONTROL, IT ONLY TAKES FOR THAT PATIENT TO LASH OUT OR SHOW ANY SIGNS OF AGGRESSION AND THEN THEY ARE IN A TRAPPED SITUATION WORSE THAN ANY PRISON WHERE ALL YOUR RIGHTS ARE STRIPPED AWAY FROM YOU.

If you dare to challenge the team then the sanctions apply to you as well like today.    It is absolutely cruel.  While the likes of these professionals do not show their faces on the wards and only visit for a short while it is the families that suffer the impact as they have to listen to the person who is in distress and then families are torn apart by teams who side with a patient or misinterpret what is going on .  Well maybe it is a good thing if a member of staff has to accompany me out.  Then they can report back that I am not some sort of criminal out to do harm to my daughter.   Most of the distress I have witnessed is my daughter is upset at the team themselves for not listening.   At the end of the day I hae stuck up for her like any mother would and this has not made me at all popular with any of the team.  The nurses themselves on the whole I have nothing against but I want things to come back on the people who are harming my daughter and who have neglected her so badly.   I am in particular bitter towards her social worker who I begged to do something to help.   Now they are wasting  over £800 a week on an empty flat.  Surely they do not intend putting her back there because I will surely name them if that is the case.    Something bad happened under that scheme which I said all along was unsuitable.

 

A Section 3 is for 6 months and I was absolutely bombarded with threatening calls and harrassed left right and centre whilst trying to get on with my work.  They were so desperate to replace me as nearest relative and this was brought about by the person named on the court papers – her social worker and then the team at the Royal Bethlem got involved.   Elizabeth has a right to know what is going on and has blamed me for “putting her in prison”   Unfortunately this “prison” was the only thing on offer as everything else at local level had failed and in particular the scheme and what happened under this scheme that is supposed to  have 24 hr supervision.    If that jsocial worker had tried at least to find somewhere else things may have been better for Elizabeth but she DID NOTHING and I asked for a replacement and instead of a replacement they appointed yet another social worker.    This must all have cost a lot of money.

 

During the week I visited the homeless –  most of them openly admitted to having suffered from mental illness and all spoke of extreme abuse they have suffered under the system run by the NHS. 

On Friday I had a call from the CQC who are supposed to investigate and to be fair they did show some interest when I told them the full story.   If someone is covered with bruises all  over their face as a relative it is not good enough to be told “I am happy with that” from the lead nurse.     Now they do not want me to have sight of the file – it is obvious they have things to hide.

 

Once a week I get a phone call and this TELLS ME NOTHING.   If only this Consultant Psychiatrist knew how to communicate himself and pick up the phone for two seconds then there would not be all these problems but he is the one who has imposed the cruel punishment towards me and at the same time he is punishing my daughter.   

There should be greater powers to investigate what is going on under closed doors in a secretive environment such as mental health – this is where the abuse goes on as noone visits hardly and when an investigation team such as the CQC arrive, probably staff are well prepared for them but they have not seen the things I HAVE SEEN or listened to the patients themselves.   

THE WHOLE SYSTEM NEEDS LOOKING AT –  THERE SEEMS TO BE TWO DIFFERENT LEVELS OF SECTION 3 BECAUSE AT LOCAL LEVEL PATIENTS ARE ALLOWED TO ROAM FREELY UNSUPERVISED AND IT IS ALL DOWN TO THEIR HUMAN RIGHTS.     AT THE MAUDSLEY HUMAN RIGHTS ARE NOT CONSIDERED EVEN THOUGH THEY HAVE AN ORGANISATION CALLED RETHINK – THEY SHOUJLD BE PRESENT AT ALL MEETINGS BUT I NOTE THEY ARE VERY CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WITH THE HOSPITAL AND PROBABLY GET FUNDING AT GOVERNMENT LEVEL –  THIS MAKES ME WONDER!   HOW OFTEN DO RETHINK ATTEND THE MEETINGS THAT CAN BE SO DAUNTING TO SOMEONE LIKE MY DAUGHTER.  THERE WERE AT LEAST 8 PEOPLE WHEN I CAME TO THE LAST ONE. 

THE POINT IS JUST BECAUSE THEY DO NOT LIKE YOU AS A MOTHER IT IS VERY VERY CRUEL TO PREVENT SOMEONE WHO IS DRUGGED UP TO THEIR NECK ON HARMFUL CHEMICALS AGAINST THEIR WISHES NOT BE ALLOWED TO EITHER GO TO CHURCH OR TO A JUBILEE PARTY WITH HER MOTHER WHEN NO STAFF WERE AVAILABLE.

I TOOK THE OPPORTUNITY TO CALL AND SEE THE LOCAL CHURCHES TO TELL THEM WHAT WAS GOING ON.

WHEN I WAS FIRST TOLD THIS NEWS I COULD NOT GO OUT ANY MORE ALONE WIHT MY DAUGHTER AND HAD TO BE ESCORTED LIKE A CRIMINAL I FELT LIKE MY LIFE WAS NOT WORTH LIVING.  I AM NOT ONE TO THINK ALONG THESE LINES AT ALL BUT THAT IS WHAT THEY HAVE DONE TO ME AND I AM BITTER TOWARDS THIS AWFUL CARE WE HAVE IN PLACE IN A SO CALLED CIVILISED COUNTRY –    THE SECTION WAS PUT IN PLACE IN THE FIRST INSTANCE BECAUSE ELIZABETH WAS TAKEN OFF A LARGE AMOUNT OF MEDICAITON AND THIS WAS MIXED WITH ANOTHER WHICH MADE HER UNSTABLE AND THERE WAS AN INCIDENT ON THE WARD.    THE PUNISHMENT SHOULD HAVE BEEN DISH OUT TO THE CONSULTANT PSYCHIATRIST FOR NOT DOING THINGS PROPERLY – INSTEAD OF REDUCING SLOWLY AND GRADUALLY HE JUST MIXED TWO TOGTETHER WHICH IS VERY VERY DANGEROUS INDEED.   IN THE COURT PAPERS THEY ARE THREATENING TO PUT HER ON CLOZAPINE AND I WANT EVERYONE TO KNOW THAT THIS IS AGAINST HER HUMAN RIGHTS.

AS FOR HER SAFETY WHICH IS THE THING THEY WILL ARGUE ABOUT – THEY COULD SAY THEY DO NOT FEEL SHE IS SAFE WITH HER OWN MOTHER –   THERE ARE NO SECURITY TESTS I HAVE NOT GONE THROUGH –  I HAVE THREE SECURITY LICENCES WHICH INVOLVE HEALTH AND SAFETY AND HAD TO GIVE UP MY POLICE TRAINING BECAUSE OF ALL OF THIS.  I HAVE HAD THOROUGH SECURITY CHECKS AND I THINK IT IS BECAUSE THEY ARE WORRIED FOR THEMSELVES.   IT IS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE THE WHOLE SYSTEM COLLAPSES AND CHANGES WILL HAVE TO BE MADE AND I CANNOT WAIT FOR THAT DAY AS CARE SHOULD NOT BE ALL ABOUT DRUG PUSHING – THAT IS NOT THE ANSWER AT ALL ESPECIALLY FOR SOMEONE WHO HAS BEEN ABUSED.

 

IT IS ALSO WRONG TO ASSUME THAT IT IS ALWAYS DOWN TO THE HOME AND FAMILY BUT THAT IS THE ASSUMPTION AND EASIER TO DEAL WITH – HOME FAMILY AND ENVIRONMENT WHEN IN FACT IT IS THE DRUGS THEMSELVES.  THE DRUGS MAKE SOMEONE VIOLENT AND CONCEAL THE TRUE FEELINGS AND DO NOT DEAL WITH THE SOURCE OF THE PROBLEM.  THE ANGER COMES WITH NOT BEING LISTENED TO AND BEING TRAPPED.   TRAPPED IN AN EVIL SYSTEM THAT NEEDS CRUSHING TO PIECES AND STARTING FROM SCRATCH.

 

ALL I CAN HOPE FOR IS THAT ELIZABETH IS MOVED BUT IT WILL PROBABLY NOT BE TO THE HOME AREA – THAT IS WONDERFUL!  I WOULD LIKE HER TO  MAKE A FRESH START.   COMING HOME WOULD NOT REALLY BE THE ANSWER BECAUSE  ANYONE ON THESE MEDICATIONS CAN BECOME UNSTABLE –  I DO NOT BELIEVE THE DIAGNOSES AND FEEL SHE HAS BEEN MISDIANOSED AND TREATED IN THE MOST APALLING MANNER.

 

HOWEVER I AM NOT ALONE AND SOMETHING NEEDS TO BE DONE THAT IS FOR SURE.

I CAN ONLY PRAY TO GOD THAT SHE IS MOVED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE AWAY FROM THAT AWFUL PLACE.

 

THE OTHER THING IS THAT I NOW HAVE PROFESSOR HEALY ADDED ON FB AND HE WRITES SOME VERY INTERESTING FACTS WHICH I SHALL COVER IN MY NEXT BLOG.  

It is disgusting first and foremost to label someone with a serious condition when there are no scientific tests available to prove it.   Mental illness can be caused by trauma, a breakdown which can take months to recover from but does not always need the drugs as I have seen someone in the family get better without.

 

Anyway I have been harrassed and pressurised by the local team and that of the Maudsley as they want to replace me as being closest relative with the father of Elizabeth.  Apparently they go by age and I happen to be the eldest but if they replaced me they would never be challenged and I can continue to keep an eye on what is going on so naturally it would be easier for the team if I was not around. 

 

I do not want to be replaced as I am the main visitor and felt pressured into saying “yes” to Section 3 even though I am not in favour.  Why a Section 3 when the ward itself is like a prison and you cannot just walk out the door.  However, this court hearing was meant to be today but I have told the Honourable Judge everything and complained of harrassment and threats.  I slated social services who have done nothing.  I slated the doctor for his narrow minded behaviour and thinking these drugs are best when in fact they are causing the psychosis.  Constantly I referred to the book of Dr Ann Blake Tracy, Prozac Panacea Pandora .  I told the Hon Judge the drugs acted like LSD, were highly dangerous and could lead to long term health problems.

 

Anyway the court Hearing has now been cancelled and the team will have to put with me as the nearest relative.  This could have led to me being banned from visiting but that is not now going ahead and I had just one day and this was too short notice to find solicitors to back me. 

However Elizabeth’s rights are to be defended if she wants to come off the Section 3.  That is probably why they are only allowing me escorted leave right now and there was noone to escort me out with her even outside.  This is surely an infringement of human rights to keep someone locked up like this and not allowed out in the sunshine.  It is apalling abuse.

What a day I have had having to frantically keep the Judge informed and challenge the loss of my role as nearest relative.  I have a busy job and these phone calls were driving me mad.

 It would be cheaper if my daughter took legal proceedings herself – she would get this for nothing whereas I would have to pay dearly. So, if she is distressed and unhappy then I will make sure this happens.

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 I AM AFRAID THE VIDEO I TOOK OF FLUFFY WATCHING FOOTBALL AND TRYING TO JOIN IN IS APALLING AND I NEARLY DROPPED THE CAMERA AT ONE TIME.  I MAY STILL POST IT ON YOU TUBE AND THIS WILL PROBABLY GAIN VOTES OF SYMPATHY FOR THE WORST FILM.

Anyway I thought it would be beneficial for Elizabeth to have  a pet to enjoy on any visits home and so my younger daughter went in search and came home with “a bargain!”  He used to live in a flat and not one on ground floor level and was six months old when we got him and very timid but now he is “bold as brass”.  My younger daughter said that at £50 we had a bargain as he came with a huge contraption like a climbing frame which he loves I must say.  She said this would cost a lot of money to buy in the shops.  However we had him micro chipped and we had to have the various injections and there was one occasion  he was unwell that required a visit to the vets but now he is extremely settled and very much at home and we have all grown so attached to him.  I have just dropped some pictures of him to Elizabeth and it is sad she does not have him with her right now although they do have dogs – dogs that sniff for drugs.  Who is the culprits responsible for the pushing of these drugs – look no further than the staff of the NHS in particular the psychiatrists.       It is laughable seeing that picture on the door.   Just imagine the outcry if I was to turn up with Fluffy on the ward with my newly acquired lead.  I have a good mind to do this one day.    Anyway as I have said we have all grown attached to him and you can imagine how devastated I was when he went missing recently.   We put reward posters all up the road and eventually a young girl brought him back.  How many more times is he going to go missing!   I was worried at the time as I had not arranged to put in a cat door and so how on earth was he going to get back in again.  Anyway he was out all night long and I could not sleep and I had to sleep downstairs on the settee with the door open just in case but no sign.  After a sleepless night I had to go to work and could barely concentrate because of my worry for him.

I will most probably let him out again but will choose a time when there is someone at home and around rather than out at work all day.

 

Fluffy has calmed Elizabeth at times when she is not feeling too good.  Her mood changes in a flash when she sees him.   SURELY THIS IS MORE BENEFICIAL THAN ALL THE DRUGS IN THE WORLD.  THIS SORT OF THING THE NHS SHOULD PROVIDE ON EVERY ACUTE WARD LIKE CAMBIAN FOUR STAR WARDS.

These 2 organisations are a waste of time complaining to because they have no powers to intervene.

At the end of the day I have taken my complaints to them on more than one occasion and one of them (I cannot remember which one) said the reason for their delay in replying is that they are inundated with complaints! – that says it all the system is NOT WORKING.

I am writing a second blog in one evening because I have just noticed a final response from the Local Government Ombudsman – a three page report that is NOT WORTH THE PAPER IT IS WRITTEN ON.  

 

The first page is full of explanations about roles and powers and how they must consider whether the Council acted reasonably and in accordance with the law.

They give a brief outline – 2 paras on background and then how they consider this complaint in just one sentence..

 

The CPA is not worth the time and effort because these meetings involving the team and patient are very distressing – often without any advocate present as there should be, a meeting will go ahead and you just have the patient and the team.    Elizabeth has said she dreads every Friday as this is the day they have regular meeting with the team and I cannot get along to them for the most part as I work full time but even when I have attended it has been a waste of time as the doctor does not listen.  It is cruel to put a patient into such a position of having to face sometimes 8 or 9 people as there was when I attended on one occasion.    This is not a fair system at all and someone weak and vulnerable, already chemically brainwashed with mind altering drugs is weakened into submission by a team that fire questions and feel they have no choice but to go along with something against their wishes.  This is what Elizabeth has told me and they all reckon she has mental capacity then why on earth would the doctor in the previous team not sign a form stating that she had mental capacity as that is what they are saying.   That means if she hurt someone or did something bad she could end up in court and not have the team’s backing – they will back her when it suits.  It is wrong that people on these prescribed drugs that cause psychosis are put in a prison as now I understand having read the book of Dr Ann Blake Tracy jsut how these drugs affect the serotonin levels and I can associate with that as I have witnessed at first hand the change in behaviour since being on these awful chemicals that should be banned.

 

Anyway the Local Government Ombudsman go on to list how the Council has responded but I am not satisfied with the Council’s response at all – they appointed someone from a disability group to ascertain what she wanted over a period of months.   I then booked a leading hynotherapist which by the way is on offer under the NHS in some areas.   This wonderful care actually worked and would surely be cheaper than the drugs.  I could not believe the transformation in Elizabeth and you could talk normally to her.   I have never seen her look so content and in her own words “it was like floating on air, Mum”.    Well I am in favour of anything that benefits my daughter having seen her in such a distressed state of mind.  This caused uproar in the team when I booked this appointment but I thought enough time had been wasted and I wanted the Council to get on and provide things not years down the line but immediately.  They were paying to employ someone for this purpose and it cost me hundreds of pounds but I could have got the answer in just one hour.  This treatment would have been more cost effective and then this guy from the Disability group could have been involved with my daughter as a mentor helping her to a little voluntary job or do something positive.

 

They like to play on the fact I could not get time off work on one occasion and didnot meet with the team.  The council’s decision was that the care was not lacking but what do you all think –  if someone is admitted 8 times in a short space of time into hospital would you think that the care is satisfactory and that person had been placed correctly then why on earth was she ignored when she was desperate to get out of that home where she was very unhappy and something happened to her.  I also got banned from visiting which caused more distress to my daughter and she had to come down in her night clothes and sit in a freezing care and this was around the time I appointed in desperation an Orthomolecular Psychiatrist and I have never seen my daughter look so happy when I appointed the new specialist and took her to the Bio Lab –  this of course is NOT AVAILABLE ON THE NHS AND THIS IS DISGUSTING AS THE NHS CARE SHOULD NOT BE ALL ABOUT DRUG PUSHING AGAINST A PATIENT’S WISHES AND THERE ARE BETTER THINGS ON OFFER LIKE I DISCOVERED.

 

IN FACT THE REPORT MISSES OUT HUGE CHUNKS OF MY COMPLAINT BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO ANSWERS TO IT.    WHAT THEY DO IS DRAG THINGS OUT, DO NOT LISTEN TO THE FAMILIES AND DO NOT PUT IN PLACE THE FUNDING FOR IDEAS ETC ALL THEY DO IS DISCUSS THEM – WHAT A WASTE OF TIME AND NOW THEY ARE HAVING TO PAY DEARLY AS THE PLACEMENT HAS BEEN WRONG AND IT IS COSTING A LOT OF MONEY FOR AN EMPTY FLAT SHE WILL NOT BE COMING BACK TO.   AT LEAST THE ROYAL BETHLEM DO NOT IGNORE HER COMMENTS LIKE THEY DO AT LOCAL LEVEL.  8 TIMES ADMISSION MUST TELL YOU SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH THE PLACEMENT.   8 TIMES OR MORE NOT WANTING TO LEAVE THE FAMILY HOME TO GO BACK BUT IT IS TOO RISKY BECAUSE OF THE FACT THESE DRUGS MAKE SOMEONE UNSTABLE AS THEY AFFECT THE SEROTONIN LEVELS AS DR TRACY QUITE RIGHTLY SAYS.  THEY CAUSE THE PSYCHOSIS AND THAT CAN LEAD TO SOME BAD SITUATIONS AT HOME.  

THE RESULT FROM THE OMBUDSMAN WS TO SAY “i RECOGNISE THE COMPLAINANT IS CONCERNED ABOUT HER DAUGHTER.  HOWEVER I AM SATISFIED THAT WITHIN ITS LIMIT DIRECT ROLE THE COUNCIL HAS RESPONDED TO HER CONCERNS AND SOUGHT TO EXPLAIN THE POSITION TO HER.  THE COMPLAINANT HAS CONTINUING CONCERNS ARISING OUT OF HER DAUGHTER’S CURRENT SITUATION BUT THESE ARE MATTERS SHE SHOULD PURSUE WITH THE HEALTH AUTHORITIES.”    AND THIS I AM DOING AS WELL.  THEY ARE BOTH TO BLAME – BOTH SOCIAL SERVICES AND THE HEALTH SERVICE.

 

IT IS NOT A SOCIALWORKER’S JOB TO PUSH DRUGS OR TRY TO PERSUADE SOMEONE TO TAKE CLOZAPINE.   IT IS A SOCIAL WORKERS JOB TO LISTEN AND NOT PLAY DOWN RISKS LIKE THEY DO NOT EXIST BUT LISTEN OR IF NOT LISTEN LOOK AND OBSERVE THE FACTS BEFORE YOU INSTEAD OF COMING TO THE SAME CONCLUSIONS AND SITTING BACK AND DOING NOTHING.

 

SO THIS IS THE REASON THE INVESTIGATOR DECIDED TO SHUT DOWN THE CASE AND YET NOTHING HAS BEEN RESOLVED.  SO MUCH FOR THE COMPLAINTS PROCEDURES! 

Did not realise that Elizabeth was seeing other family members on Sunday so chose instead to look around a wonderful local shopping centre and pick up my book which I have just ordered called “Molecules of Emotion” by Dr Candace Pert.   Dr Candace Pert is one of the creators of these harmful drugs and an outspoken critic featured in Dr Ann Blake Tracy’s informative book called Prozac Panacea and Pandora.  I have of course taken these books on the ward as I feel the team should not dismiss such evidence as to how harmful the drugs are.

I telephoned Elizabeth later as I was still in the area and asked if she wanted me to call in and drop some money in for her as she had requested me to do the previous day.   Straight away I got to hear that Elizabeth was not herself and in a bad way.   I am sure the doctor is messing around with her medication in some way as she was quite unstable and so I decided not to stay for very long as this could antagonise the situation. 

I dropped the money in and sat down for a few minutes with her and she showed me the new clothes she bought whilst out earlier.  You could not speak to her or have a conversation with her at all, she was very hyper and jumpy in her behaviour.  I had brought her a few bits and pieces and left shortly after.

Of course when someone is ill like that and drugged up to their neck on LSD-like tablets that actually cause the psychosis themselves namely Seroquel and Olanzapine, you have to expect someone is not going to be at all well.   The Royal Bethlem are continuing to do what they did at local level and at times she sounded a bit suicidal and of course anger is vented at you for being that nearest relative who “put her in the Maudsley”.  I thought this was a leading hospital that took a different approach but have been proven wrong.   Elizabeth is worried she will be kept in forever but I think that moneywise, I do not think that will be an option but pray she will not return to the dreadful local area where I live where the mental health care is apalling. It must be costing them a fortune at local level and this is probably the reason why they wish to replace me as the closest relative thinking about it. There are familiy members that live in another area outside of London and I am thinking that if transferred there, the funding would come under that particular area.  There is an assessment coming up at local level but every time I have been to such meeting I have come away so upset as you are up against so much and a team that stick together and do not wish to listen to you and it is no wonder they smugly smile.  At least four people have done this so far attached to various teams which is highly unprofessional in my opinion. 

Currently on a section 2 they wish to extend it to Section 3 (up to 6 months) and if they are as I think they are playing about with the medication and altering things it causes a person to suffer form psychosis I would not have a chance to dispute this as only a short while ago she was fine in her behaviour and talking in a decent manner and now look – just before this assessment she is completely off her head.  The teams like to say someone like my daughter knows what she is doing but there are many times and I have so many witnesses she is not able to control and in a dream like state.   She mentioned she suffers from nightmares during the day – a sign of the LSD like drugs.   Psychosis is not a condition just brought on by a so called diagnosis but as a direct result of the harmful LSD like drugs they give. She never had anything like this before.  I am so sorry now for Elizabeth and there is not a day that does not go by when I do not think of her no matter how hard I try to switch my mind to other things.  I feel so helpless and feel like my life has been destroyed to and her life rests in God’s hands.  Nothing can reassure me as to the safety of these drugs as I personally am in touch with patients and have friends who have been on them who now suffer long term serious health problems.  Of course this is something I do not want for Elizabeth.

This is my daughter and I am thinking about Michael Jackson and what happened to him and thinking that I do not want to lose my daughter and do not believe in these diagnoses at all for which she has 4.  I saw the decline in her when she took herself off Cipralix in one go and became unrecognisable.

I believe that a trauma can bring about a breakdown which time could heal like it did with someone else in my family over a period of 5 months who refused every scrap of medication.  I believe that counselling and alternative things like the oils, oxygen that Dr Tracy recommends, meditation and exercise – most importantly correct diet and peaceful environment are so important to get better.  Elizabeth is not alone and there are so very many in the same situation and stuck in the system – the forgotten people, people that the Government does not care about at all.  Even the press is afraid to print stories and I have approached them several times.  The complaints system is biaised and unfair and so is the legal profession – all of this means that this abuse is allowed to continue and people are dying as a result of these awful drugs that should be banned. 

This hospital has better facilities than at local level and I was pleased to hear today that she had been given the opportunity to work in their on-site shop but I had never doubted her capabilities and she is very artistic.  On the local ward on a previous occasion I went over their heads to book a floristry course and you should have seen the wonderful things she made there – even the staff wanted to buy the displays and the psychiatrist had to admit HE WAS WRONG.  It is not often someone in the profession admits they are wrong and I respect anyone who is brave enough to admit it or to stand up for what they think is right when the vast majority are only concerned for themselves and their jobs.

There are one or two I respect in the team but I think personally that it is not drugs that are the answer but correct care and diet/nutritian and counselling play an important part, not to mention animals.  The care should be improved at local level and there is huge room for improvement at this hospital.  I do not like to see animals caged in but this is RIDICULOUS ABUSE.  YOU SHOULD SEE WHAT THIS PLACE IS LIKE WITH HIGH FENCES AROUND.   IF THE PATIENTS WERE HAPPY THERE THEN THERE WOULD NOT BE THE NEED FOR THESE HIGH PRISON LIKE FENCES AND BESIDES IF THEY ARE VIOLENT AND AGGRESSIVE THEN IT IS THE DOCTORS PLYING THEM WITH DRUGS THAT CAUSE THIS BECAUSE THEY ALTER THE SEROTONIN LEVELS AND HAVING READ DR TRACY’S BOOK ANYONE WOULD SURELY BE CONVINCED THAT THESE DRUGS ARE NO GOOD AND MAKE SOMEONE PREVIOUSLY PLACID VIOLENT AND WHEN THE CREATOR OF THESE DRUGS DR CANDACE PERT WRITE AS TO HOW ALARMED SHE IS WHY DO NOT MORE PROFESSIONALS LISTEN.   THEY ARE IN DENIAL AND DO NOT CARE AS LONG AS THEY HAVE THEIR JOBS AT THE END OF THE DAY.  I COULD NOT HAVE DONE MORE THAN DRAW TO THE ATTENTION THE DANGERS OF THESE DRUGS AND INTEND TO TAKE THE NEXT CARERS GROUP MEETING BY STORM.

 

   

 

Went to the most fabulous party – like a wedding the other evening.  The party was a birthday party held by my work colleague and attended by 150 people – one of the best parties I have been to.

Did not see Elizabeth yesterday as rest of family visiting.

Beautiful day today so am going to leave now and get over by public transport.

31st May is the assesment but I have not been served papers for court or anything as the local team are keen to replace me as closest relative.  I am nothing up against these teams that bully people into submission and will be glad to see the back of me as closest relative as I have complained about their care which has been awful.

 

Care should not be just about medication and this has not worked for Elizabeth –  often rape/abuse victims are put on medication instead of receiving counselling.  They are then labelled with serious conditions that bring about it huge benefits to psychiatrists and supporting teams as it provides ongoing work and huge money to the pharmaceutical industry by enforcing the drugging of patients with these mind-altering drugs that have the same effect as LSD and which you cannot easily get off. 

 

The assessment due on 31st of May I believe is to discuss funding issues but all I want is for Elizabeth to be moved on somewhere else rather than that awful place where she is so unhappy and where she was covered in bruises and all I have got out o the lead nurse is “I am happy with that”.  Also I fear for her safety as they have allowed the most unsuitable visitor from the local area who whilst on a Section 3 was allowed to roam freely and pop over to my home, resulting in my next door neighbours being threatened – in fact Police were involved as they received a death threat.  This man has been allowed to visit on the ward at the Royal Bethlem Hospital with all their security!

If they take away my responsibility of being nearest relative, who will I be replaced with?  Could this mean they are trying to get away with paying as outside of the local area whereever the nearest relative lives could be reponsible for funding?  Either way it will be a triumph for them as they do not like me.  I have been slagged off so many times in the files and called a cruel abd abusive mother when in fact I have challenged their care and they do not like it.  

 

An imprisonment can last for years and years under the mental health in England. What starts as a section III can last forever and there is a much more stricter environment here than locally – more controlling but the one thing is that they still want to give yet more drugs against a patient’s wishes which is terrible.   I know of such cases and I am afraid for Elizabeth because the team hate me and have written terrible things about me in the files which I got to see.

 

For instance, at local level, they have questioned my daughter about home and family and assumed the home and family was abusive and that I was a cruel mother who hit her as a child.  I have a younger daughter too and showed her this and when questioned Elizabeth was very angry and denied saying those things.  I believe such comments had been taken out of context and how can a professional comment without seeing the family home and without listening to others in the family to find out more.

 

I have also been compared to by so many “I know how you feel, I am a mother myself”.  It is one thing being a mother of a normal healthy child but Elizabeth once was normal and healthy herself but since being put on first of all anti-depressants instead of receiving counselling she has suffered such huge change in her personality and has bouts of aggression like never ever before.  I knew nothing about these drugs at the time and thought it was a good thing that she had taken herself off the anti-depressants in one go just before a trip of a lifetime abroad but unfortunately I have found out now just how dangerous the drugs are and how any withdrawal needs to be done slowly and gradually and what they do is up the dosage when the effects are wearing off.  The anger in patients at being imprisoned in a dreadful environment is understandable.  At weekends there is nothing to do and hardly any visitors to the ward to see the patients.  They are stuck in for the most part and although are taken out for walks it is not enough in my opinion and wrong to punish such people when it is the drugs themselves that are the cause and  it is far easier to keep a patient on them than take them off and it is bound to fail if you take them off in a large dosage rather than miniscule amounts daily. At local level medication was skipped on occasions when visiting family when she had forgotten it or there was not time to ask and this is harmful and yet locally they felt it was OK to do this.  

 

Anyway I am not visiting today as her father is but the latest situation is such that a section is automatically given again but they want to do it for six months which is a section III and is against Elizabeth’s wishes and I have had the most pushy phone calls from members of the local team and threatening too to the extent they have threatened to replace me as nearest relative with someone else if I did not agree.  This was too short notice for me to give an answer as I needed to think carefully about it and get legal advice and I work full time  so how could I do that effectively whilst receiving a call in the office at the end of the day last Wednesday and early evening and then again on Friday and I still could not say yes or no but hinted that I did not want to be replaced and still needed to get advice as it takes time to do this.  I know they are threatening to take me to court and Elizabeth knows this and is upset.   It would really suit the team if I was displaced and then they could just do what they like.

 

The fact it something happened to my daughter bad in that scheme and they are desperate not to disclose this or what really happened when all her possessions when missing and how come the police were constantly looking for my missing daughter in the company of a violent Section 3 patient who has been to visit in her current ward.

 

Is this reason enough to ban me because I have researched the medication and know how harmful they are.  I am still waiting to h ear from the FDA and they have not replied to me.

 

I have not mentioned my daughter’s name or the name of the local authority but am very critical of a system that does not listen or care to listen to individuals and sticks together like glue when there is a complaint and noone has the power to intervene.  There are many people suffering the same way I am but what would make me happy more than anything would be to see her discharged to the correct placement away from this area like that I have mentioned and I know more than any of them being her mother what would make her happy and obviously she would like to come home and live – so much for them saying the home and family is bad – noone would say “I want to come home, Mum” if they were not happy would they?  at the end of the day she needs to be stabilied and taken off the drugs in a proper and decent manner like Dr Ann Blake Tracy documents and it could take a year to successfully do that.  Yes I agree with the current Psychiatrist that the hospital is not the place for her on a long term basis but with orthomolecular care and proper nutrition and diet there is still hope.   Left to eat junk food and dumped into a scheme that doe snot have adequate supervision or whose staff did not always engage with her, then she will only go downhill.  I hope that is not what they are planning or maybe jthey are planning for me never to see my daughter again and they have the powers to do this and this is where I would look for justice outside of this country as I feel the law fails to protect familiies in such situation and that there should be more support and assistance for the mentally ill who sadly beg to return to hospital as they cannot cope in the community despite a scheme that is supposed to offer 24hr care.

 

Each time I visit Elizabeth asks about her pet kitten and asks to go to Finland as she has happy memories there before she got plied with all these terrible mind-altering drugs that have the same effect as LSD.

Anyway I am not visiting today as the rest of the family are and instead I am going to a party.  It is a long time I have had a happy occasion to go to and I am really looking forward to it.  I could not decide what to wear for this occasion and will wear an evening dress I think.  It is a colleague’s party and sounds wonderful.

 

Meanwhile my younger daughter is enjoying herself working for a leading cruise liner.  I would like to take Elizabeth or to pay for her and a nurse to go aboard.  I do not now know if this will be possible.  I will no longer be invited to any meetings or included in anything if I am no longer the closest relative that is for sure but I have not yet said yes or no and if I was to say yes then  it is awful to think I am being forced into this situation and that it is against what Elizabeth wants as she is happy to continue her treatment until a suitable placement can be found.  If all this could have been done sooner by the local team then none of this would have happened and the reason I am upset is that the team have ignored Elizabeth’s wishes.  That is why I have been outspoken and critical of the “care”.  Now I am going to get ready.  I am going to write tomorrow some interesting informative facts about mental health sections.

 

 

 

 

  

 

I cannot think of a better description to describe the ward where my daugher is on now run by the NHS.

Patients are trapped like prisoners in a system that is controlled by professionals who can further control things by altering medication levels throwing someone off balance completely and then imposing sanctions – this is what has happened.  When you switch a medication to another it throws a patient’s behaviour off balance and they can become psychotic. 

Elizabeth was beginning to settle down but of coure the Tribunal did not go ahead last week and now the Section 2 is coming to an end this week.  The social worker is away and so is the Consultant Psychiatrist and a replacement social worker is dealing with matters.

 

Late yesterday whilst at work I received a call stating that the team felt she should be put on Section 3 which is for 6 months or up to 6 months.    Elizabeth was not happy with this and did not give consent so they turned to me as the nearest legally representative and put me on the spot and I had to come out of my office to speak to her.   I refused this permission and then she told me they would just go over my head and replace me as the legal representative/guardian and take away everything from me.  This is how they control people and destroy families – it has happened to several of my friends and they even put a stop to one visiting.

 

I thought this section would be lifted as Elizabeth’s behaviour was OK but yesterday she was very very distressed and was talking in a distressed manner.  Maybe something had happened there.

 

I have had no response from my complaint and it has been 2 weeks now and they have not said yes in accordance with Elizabeth’s agreement to let the family see her files to check on medication as I appointed an Orthomolecular Psychiatrist and she was doing so well on the supplements and he was going to reduce her gradually on the minimum of medication and I actually saw an improvement.  They claim to be giving the supplements but all I get is a once a week phone call from the lead nurse who cannot give me any information despite giving them so many consent letters and one on official paper to satisfy them.  Now noone is speaking and I am up against a wall of silence.

 

The solicitor herself was one recommended by the hospital and was saying you dont have to go through with the meeting and they seemed so pally – her and the rest of the team laughing and joking and surrounding my daughter who they took down the corridor away from me. 

 

Clearly this is a team who want to destroy the relationship between myself and my daughter as I thought this was a leading hospital who would care to listen but they just want to experiment further with drugs yet they have more resources to do other things besides.  No mention has been m ade about the oils I brought on to the ward – nothing whatsover or neither has any mention been said about the way they took Elizabeth off a huge amount of medication throwing her off balance yet I had brought tapes, books etc onto the ward to show them.  They clearly dismissed these and all the information on lawsuits.  I have ordered the book Molecules of Emotion by one of the creators of thse drugs, Candace Pert.   

 

I would have been so happy if they had just transferred her to somewhere else but now they have to fight for funding from a local authority who is currently wasting over £800 a week on an empty flat.

I think it has been  agreed she cannot go back to this flat where she complained of having suffered tremendously and when I turned up there was drugs squad and sapphire team there so I got to find out and she had gone missing.   They placed her wrongly in a scheme where there was not much supervision and she was extremely unhappy and left to go downhill and they kept on placing her 8 times back into that scheme until finally the place came up at this hospital who I truly thought could do something good but they have just plied more drugs and wasted no time in doing so.    There are pitiful sights on that ward and people of all races and religions. At the weekends Elizabeth looks forward to my visits and I take her out but othr patients do not get many visitors as their families live too far in some cases.

These are the victims of the pharmaceutical industry.

So today I have been given no notice – received no letter and told nothing that this important meeting is to take place and they are just going to overrule everything yet Elizabeth would have remained there voluntarily until a placement could be found.  I was told this by 2 phone calls late afternoon and early evening when I was at the hairdressers in front of other people and of course I got upset when told they would replace me.

On Wednesday I went to House of Commons hoping to see someone else as my MP has written to say he cannot help me.  I saw the MP of the area of the Maudesley in Kent and he also told me the same thing but was sympathetic.  When I criticised the law and said she was a victim of crime in the first instance – abuse from someone not in the family but whom the family thought was respectable and much much older than her.  There was a ful investigation and a stop was put on him contacting her yet this was done all too late – quite some time later by which time Elizabeth had been drugged up and experimented on.

Whey cant they allow her to have Orthomolecular care when research has proven that diet is so very important and patients can be reduced off medication this way with the correct diet and supplements.

I am happy for Elizabeth to move away from the dreadful local area where we live – also there is someone else in my family who has suffered tremendously at the hands of local care but I cannot mention anything just yet about this.

The local area are responsible for the funding but why could they not provide £100 a week storage for her few possessions – the most valuable having been stolen at this scheme and the scheme would not allow police to see CCTV – no proper investigation has been made.

 

Now I have been put on the spot to say yes otherwise they could just take away my representation of my daughter legally and replace me – probably with someone from the hospital itself and that is how evil the system is. 

Forcing a patient against their wishes to take drugs for what – multiple diagnoses two conflicting as for Aspergers they do not give all these medications and that is what a leading expert has diagnosed her with but the rest say she has Schizophrenia but I would say she is suffering psychosis as a direct result of the drug Seroquel and switching from one to another – this has caused her condition and her to be unwell.

Today is an important day when a decision will be made to control my daughter – what kind of care is this.   In a nicer setting and surround she could have improved and got better like this wonderful centre for women only that has been highly praised by a former resident where she lived who was a rape victim.  It would have done her good to get right away from this area and made a fresh start.   Now they want to keep her prisoner and they could not even protect her from someone who visited who she met on a local mixed ward and who has threatened my neighbours and police have been involved.  This person has been allowed to visit there and at local level this person is well known to police who can “quite understand how I feel yet it was funny that she kept going missing with this person and each time police were called by me, police time was wasted including a time she was voluntary on the ward locally and staff refused to phone police to let them know she was missing.  I later found out she was with him.  I believe local team staff knew where she was each time and the police let it slip she was with him.  Whilst out with him which seems to have been encouraged despite the fact he was on Section 3, she was not properly  taking her medication.  On this medication it completely blocks the memory and this is why some patients simply do not take it – they have no recollection of time – cannot get to appointments etc etc and thisis where a team is supposed to step in and protect that person.

 

THEY HAVE FAILED IN MY OPINION AND TWO FIRMS OF SOLICITORS SAID

HAD FAILED IN THEIR DUTY OF CARE YET THE HEALTHCARE COMMISSION AT THE TIME CALLED THE CARE SATISFACTORY.