Mental Health

The Manchester LINk Mental Health Watchdog is a group made up of service users, carers, representatives from organisations and interested individuals.

The purpose of the Manchester Mental Health Watchdog is to listen to what people think of services as they are now by holding events, attending meetings, having a presence in the community, and making recommendations to the relevant agencies based on what you have told us.

The group started on the 1st April 2008 as part of the Manchester Local Involvement Network. One of our aims is to listen to what service users and carers say about current services and feed this back to the Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust. We also support pieces of work to bring about positive changes to health and social care services in Manchester.

Our current workplan is looking at the following issues:
● Crisis Resolution and PEARL
● Fairer Charging
● Treatment of individuals
● Service User Involvement (especially in light of forthcoming changes in the way that services are being delivered)