Grumpy Old Deafies
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Entries from Grumpy Old Deafies tagged with 'mental health'
Depressant Drug For The Annoyingly Cheerful
This isn't strictly a deaf related post, but it has an underlying point. One around what society classes as "normal", and how it strives to perhaps push towards medicalisation of those people who fall outside that category. To pull them...
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Posted by alison on March 4, 2009 8:05 PM
Northern Ireland Assembly: The Bamford Review & Deaf People
The Northern Ireland Assembly recently had a generic debate on health services. Within this debate it made mention of a review of deaf mental health services in Northern Ireland: Michael McGimpsey (UUP) The Bamford Review did not examine needs in...
Posted by alison on May 8, 2008 1:43 PM
Strategy & delivery of mental health services: in who's interest?
Here is a BBCi report on mental health services in Scotland, more to the point the rnid is calling for better services. Now I don't dispute for one minute that access to mental health services needs to be improved. However,...
Posted by alison on August 13, 2007 10:09 PM
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