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Work
continues on the movie which is very near completion.
Very talented
Car Park composer Jon Brooks has a new web site. Well worth a look. You
can even hear some of his work. Go to www.jonbrooks.co.uk
For more
on the musicians working on Car Park click on Music
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Car Park
Writer/Director Bill McCoid is now working as a
lecturer at University
of Central Lancashire.
After
working for many years at University
of Salford Bill has moved a few
miles up the road to Preston.
Bill is
now Course Leader Head of Screenwriting for Film and Television. He is
based at the newly opened Media factory.
For more
info about UCLAN go to www.uclan.ac.uk
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Car Park actor
Jimmy Foster won a special award for services to Manchester theatre at the Manchester
Evening News Theatre awards. Richly deserved.
Meanwhile,
editing on Car Park is now at an advanced stage. Stay tuned.
Car Park actors Jimmy
Foster and Stephen Swift havea new sit-com at www.maggot.tv. Quality acting, well
worth a look. Plus, on the same web site there are five movies from Salford Shortznight, just
click onto new talent.
See Car Park actor Joe O’Byrne and Director
Bill McCoid in BBC Director Werner
Van Peppen’s classy short Deadline.
You can view this mini
thriller now simply by clicking on to Deadline
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‘CRISIS’ OVER MENTAL CARE
Sectioned metal patients
are being sent home because of a chronic shortage of hospital beds say
doctors.
Kailish Chand, who
represents GPs from across the north
west said attempts to
find acute metal health beds were a ‘nightmare’ and added, ‘It’s a huge
problem.”
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From Manchester Evening News Thursday 11 May
By John Scheerhout
Apology On Locked Up Patient
Mental health bosses have apologised for
failures in finding a hospital bed for a patient who instead spent three
days locked in a police cell.
From
Metro Thursday 11 May 2006
By
Suzie Austin
Mental
patients help choose staff
The patients had a say in the hiring of staff
A
top security hospital has confirmed that patients have become involved in
the selection of staff.
Rampton Hospital in Nottinghamshire, which has high-profile
patients, such as caretaker Ian Huntley - accused of killing Holly Wells
and Jessica Chapman - says the process has been a success.
"Giving patients some input into
the selection of social work staff is common in community psychiatric
services, but this is the first time it has been used at Rampton," hospital spokeswoman Julie Grant said.
The interviews for six social work
positions at the hospital included input from four patients and two
carers.
Final say
Their panel reported to a professional
appointment panel, which then made the final decisions on who to hire.
The head of social work at the
hospital, James Pam, said their involvement proved such a success that
the hospital is going to use the same system again.
It’s the official joke of the movie…
So God says to Noah…
Nice job on the Ark, Noah, really
nice job. The last Flood was such
a great success, I’m thinking of doing another one. So I’ll want you to
do another Ark.
Another Ark God? It’ll be
an honour.
Yeah, but this time I
don’t want no animals.
No animals God?
No animals. Fish I want.
Fish, God? You want me to fill the Ark with fish?
Yeah, fish. But
not ordinary fish. I want them big,
bright, flashy fish I created. You know, carp.
Oh yes, God,
right. But they take up a lot
of room, we’ll need real big fish tanks.
Right. And I want a really good display. Not just one row of tanks. I want rows and rows of them. Maybe stacked up to the ceiling, 10 or
15 deep, right?
Oh right God, I've
got it! You want to create a
Multi-storey Carp Ark?
'Warning over mental health care failings' BBC
News 27 Nov . There has been an increase in
voluntary detention (sic) The number of men compulsorily detained under
the Mental Health Act rose by 40% over the last decade, statistics show.
The government figures also show the number of women detained rose by 19%
between 1991 and 2002. Rethink, formerly the National Schizophrenia
Fellowship, said the rise was due to people receiving inadequate care
early on in their illness, meaning they become so ill they require
compulsory admission to hospital.
The figures come following the publication of a Draft
Mental Health Bill which would allow people with severe personality
disorders to be detained indefinitely, even if they have committed no
crime.
Campaigners, including Rethink, have criticised the
plans. And they say the Department of Health's figures, which cover England,
would open up new avenues allowing compulsory detention, increasing
numbers even further. The statistics also show that the number of people
voluntarily detained in hospital has also rose,
from 19,900 in 2000/2001 to 20,500 in 2001/2002.
Rethink said the numbers sectioned had risen because
of "defensive reactions" from professionals criticised by the
government and media after high profile homicide cases.
Psychiatrists 'driven by
fear' BBC News 17 Dec. Fear of being sued or pilloried in the media
is forcing many psychiatrists to take the safe treatment option - even if
it is not necessarily the best for the patient. A study has found that
three out of four psychiatrists practised so-called defensive medicine in
the month prior to being questioned. The findings follow research
published last month that showed the number of men compulsorily detained
under the Mental Health Act rose by 40% over the last decade. Perhaps
unsurprisingly it was junior doctors who were most likely to be
over-cautious. But some psychiatrists admitted that previous experience
of complaints had left them determined to avoid legal action or criticism
from the media. Defensive medicine is the practice of opting for
treatments, tests and procedures with the primary intention of protecting
the doctor from criticism, rather than diagnosing or treating the
patient. Researchers received completed questionnaires from 96
psychiatrists practising in the north of England. These included
consultants, non-consultant grades and trainees. Of these 71 had taken
defensive action within the past month. Twenty-one percent had admitted
patients overcautiously and 29% had placed patients on higher levels of
observations.
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