Manchester’s mental health services are in crisis:

• Manchester’s mental health services were officially rated 173^rd out of 175 mental health Trusts in a recent inspection.

• When Withington hospital closed and moved to Wythenshawe we lost 45 beds.

• We have a bed crisis, where it is very hard to get a bed for people even when they are very unwell. Patients are on waiting lists to be sectioned. Occupancy in adult beds is 127%. Patients still are being put up in day and TV rooms. We have operated on red status for beds for over 3 years.

• PFI beds in Wythenshawe hospital cost 4 times as much per bed as NHS beds in North Manchester.

• This has led to overspending and recurrent debt.

• Occupancy rate is 120%+, which means we regularly have 24 patients in 20 beds.

• Recent changes in community mental health teams have left over 500 patients without the key worker nurse they need, despite warnings from staff and unions.

• New services, like crisis teams cannot open, because of this problem.

• Over 1000 patients have had to change their key worker.

• This year they have closed an elderly ward.

• They have also closed a respite centre on a Friday afternoon at no notice, sending patients home to carers who had been expecting a weekend off.

• They employed a consultant who was on the sex offenders register.

• They employed a locum consultant who was not qualified.

• Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust is officially in “turnaround”, similar to “special measures” in schools.

• The medical director resigned in summer.

• The Trust has to save over £5 million this year.