Trust must show compassion and interest

Published: 26 August, 2010

• AT the time the Camden & Islington NHS Foundation Trust was working on its £35,000 logo it was decided that C&I should stand for “care and innovation”. 

It would seem more appropriate if it stood  for cuts and isolation which is what has happened to its services, with the sad consequences mentioned in the New Journal (Letters, August 5).

Further cuts to in-patient provisions are predicted with the loss of anything up to 40 more beds. 

At the same time the overall expenditure is being reviewed and it is quite likely that services like the Highgate Day Centre may face the axe with the valuable site sold to meet some of   the losses in the council budget.

No amount of smart management methods adopted by the foundation trust will provide the compassion and interest which people with mental health problems need and respond to. 

However, this foundation trust has only one reaction and that is to criticise and ignore any challenges and ideas. 

Further tragedies and inquests seem likely to be the clear and inevitable outcome of this callousness and indifference.

DAVID BROWN
Haverstock Hill
NW3