Notice of THE GUARDIAN

Impact of mental health service cuts

Today I’m going to talk about a notice of THE GUARDIAN newspaper. This notice is about the impact of the mental health service cuts. The article is about how some factors have a negative impact on the patients. The author comments about the scarcity of the psychiatric institutions. According to him, it has been harmful for wellbeing patients; because they need good conditions for have treatments in good conditions. He explain it, considering that at least 1,711 psychiatric beds have closed since April 2011, most of them in acute adult wards, older people's wards and psychiatric intensive care units. Besides it the author explains the impact of the negligence of treatments on patients, above all considering that the long distance patients are from home is detrimental to the wellbeing of them because of the disruption to their support networks. In others words, if the treatments don’t have support of the patient’s family, may have negative consequences for the patients, making reference about “The Ship of Fools”. On the other hand, the author considerate the importance of patients monitoring because of the care on society.

In my opinion and considering my career, I think it is a good article, because the author explains many important things about the psychiatric patients care.

I invite you read the article: http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/oct/17/impact-mental-health-services

I hope you think the same.    !