With his greatest hits compilation The Diamond Collection currently riding high on the Official Albums Chart, Post Malone is finally set to bring his Twelve Carat Tour to the UK this week.
17.04.2023 - 06:01 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
They should have cared for our most vulnerable.
People called on them for help at their lowest points, when even their own minds had betrayed them.
In recent weeks, Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust (GMMH) was served a stark reckoning, with inspectors laying bare their failures. On Friday, the trust's chief executive announced his resignation.
It follows a litany of other reports, highlighting a catalogue of tragedy.
Recent years paint a picture of struggling people coming through the doors in the worst state of their lives. They were desperate for help, but the system built to look after them failed.
And, while sick patients were left in unacceptable conditions, the people at the top of the trust - whose job it was to ensure help was available for those who truly needed it - never heard desperate pleas for support.
Instead, they became wrapped up in praise from distant regulators. They busied themselves expanding the stretched trust further still, despite staffing levels becoming unsafe.
One beleaguered unit became ‘its own world’, with its own ‘combative’ set of rules flourishing as it was cut off from outside influence. Meanwhile, trust leaders began to ‘believe their own propaganda’ as they were showered in false praise - and nothing changed.
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Right now, GMMH is subject to a slew of investigations. Police, independent, internal - many of them stem from the revelations aired in a September episode of Panorama. The trust was rocked by the shocking programme featuring footage recorded by an undercover BBC reporter embedded in one unit on the grounds of the former Prestwich Hospital, where GMMH now has a number of inpatient units, from March to
With his greatest hits compilation The Diamond Collection currently riding high on the Official Albums Chart, Post Malone is finally set to bring his Twelve Carat Tour to the UK this week.
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