Opposition?

Published: 27 January, 2011

• THE proposals by the Camden & Islington NHS Foundation Trust to close two of its hospitals with the loss of some 100 beds is not the only attack which the local mental health provision faces. 

Camden Council’s adult social care department is proposing to slash advocacy and day centre provision.  Add to this the financial cuts to the voluntary sector and the landscape is going to be very barren. 

Where is the opposition to this decimation of the services? 

Camden no longer has an independent mental health patients’ organisation and the council-run service is not going to oppose the proposals of the organisation which gives it existence.

It seems that there is no one independent enough or brave enough to speak out against these cuts which will affect this vulnerable group so severely.  

Sadly, the best case against the cuts is the one which no one really wants to make because it damages the cause, that we should remember the cases of Christopher Clunis and Anthony Hardy – tragedies which could have been avoided.

SHEILA LAWS
Lawn Road, NW3