1. It's not the spending of money on mental health problems that is the issue. It's the failure in expertise and ability to get the most obvious problems right as I've directly experienced for over eight years. One of the great issues concerning mental health is the fact that those who complain are deemed mentally ill. It is an all too common response to a complaint to dismiss it by personally attacking the person who makes the complaint as "potty," "psychotic" or whatever convenient name calling epithet is available to those who cannot deal with the criticism and/or complaint made especially if it is quite serious. In my direct experience when the government is the object of complaints about its activities the retaliation through the mental health services becomes an abuse of power. This drains away resources and abuses those involved in the process of trying to bring about decent and effective mental health care.
When a situation such as mine is subject to such extensive abuse, it is the same thing as letting the criminal go on to commit crimes while attacking an innocent person who reported the criminal in the first place. This becomes a most serious abuse of power because it makes a mockery of governmental services involving the police, the NHS, tenant management in this instance along with the local and central government. It turns the environment into one ruled by a vigilante mob chanting mental health abuse name calling which takes the place of former bigotry in the recent past. It is a sad day when health professionals and others of a supposed professional capacity join in this process in not only an uncritical manner but in a way that knowingly and intentionally sustains violence in the community concurrent with its antisocial and criminal activity making these the standards. If mental health care targets are not going to be met, it's because the mental health professionals of yesterday and today are not practising medicine properly with the full knowledge of this fact.
BBC News Friday, 12 January 2007, 01:09 GMT
Mental health care 'must improve'
 An estimated 20,000 extra nurses are needed |
A major spending boost is needed if mental health care is to meet the government's expectations for 2010/11, a charity has warned.
Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health examined the resources needed to meet the government's 10-year National Service Framework.
It says public spending on mental health care must increase by a further 50% over and above inflation.
And staff numbers must increase by almost 40% to meet the targets.
The report says that although public spending on mental health services for working-age adults rose by almost 7% a year between 1999/00 and 2005/06, and is likely to reach £6 billion by 2010/11, the figure would need to be £7.5 billion to achieve government aims.
 |  "This important and timely research shows us how far there still is to go  Sophie Corlett of Mind |
Staff numbers also need to increase by 38%, including almost 20,000 more qualified nurses, by 2010/11 to deliver the services.
The report noted that since 1999 expenditure had increased by an average of 6.7% a year, which it called a "substantial achievement".
But Angela Greatley, chief executive of SCMH, said "major gaps" remained.
She said it now looked "unlikely" that the plan would be achieved in full by 2010/11.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6252915.stm
2. Although this article below reflects General Practioner's pay in the NHS, one has to ask about the use of increased funding overall? Is the government paying more for the malfeasance, misconduct and deliberately gross malpractice which I've been experiencing for many years including out of hours practise when these so-called "health professionals" spend a considerable amount of time in the community participating in the abuse of surveillance technology for medical experimentation purposes carried out against me a nonconsenting human guinea pig?
The Independent Friday, 12th January 2007
Sick pay: Massive rise in GPs' salaries worsens NHS cash crisis
By Jeremy Laurance, Health Editor
The average GP now earns £118,000 a year. This is a staggering rise of 63% in three years. And it gets better: instead of having to care for patients all day, every day, they are now just responsible during office hours (weekdays only). Is it any wonder the NHS is unwell?
Family doctors are lining their pockets in an unprecedented bonanza as they take an increasing share of the NHS's extra billions while wards close and services are cut back.
GPs' average earnings for last year (2005-06) rose to £118,000, according to estimates by the Association of Specialist Medical Accountants, a 63 per cent increase in three years. The average family doctor now earns, including private income, more than the Lord Chancellor, ministers of state, senior civil servants and circuit judges.
The soaring salary levels of doctors are worsening the NHS cash crisis. Two-thirds of NHS trusts are in deficit and have cancelled operations and extended waiting times. Primary care trusts, including those in Yorkshire, Sheffield, Norfolk and Surrey, have ordered GPs to delay referrals to save money.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/health_medical/article2145148.ece
3. "We don't have the resources to monitor someone 24-hours a day," said Detective Superintendent Peter Chanilor, North Wales Police, on BBC News24 about this conviction and sentence to life for kidnapping and rape. This serious offender had finished a supervision order from a prior sentence of some 12 years just six weeks before this kidnapping and assault took place. This BBC News24 report stated that "further limited monitoring" was still required after the end of the supervision period. A woman commented further "that supervision for known offenders is not tight enough."
What this police Detective Superintendent said is simply not true. The resources and the commitment are there to totally track and monitor an individual 24/7 with minimal resources. I have never been convicted of anything at all ever. I have never been charged with anything at all ever. I have never done anything ever at any time to warrant any such action. But, I am being monitored and tracked 24/7 with totally invasive surveillance technology which has been going on for many years. It is a condemnation of the whole law enforcement, justice and probation system and this government especially the Home Office that those with prior offences who have been convicted cannot be dealt with appropriately to ensure that they will not re-offend when someone like me has had his life totally destroyed for eight years and five months from the abuse of surveillance technology 24/7.
This question must be answered: how can those who are a clear danger to the public with a history of violence be ignored and even have their existence unrecorded as keeps recurring in the Home Office where they are not tracked and monitored when, by contrast, a totally innocent, honest and decent person who reports serious crimes and antisocial problems is subjected to totally invasive surveillance technology with a complete tracking and monitoring capacity. Obviously, the resources are there but are being abused in the most incredible manner. There must be a total enquiry with full judicial powers into this entire situation to determine all that has happened and why given the terrible crimes which continue to occur in this country by previous serious offenders or those whose records are not even entered into the police national database or who are not properly dealt with when released from prison.
This is an "horrendous" crime which could have been prevented given the resources and technology available but are instead being abused in the extreme by violent criminals with the full support of those in postions of governmental authority. Why this is occurring must be answered now before more tragedies like this occur. The worst aspect of my situation is the fact that those for whom I reported the violent crimes have been the ones using the surveillance technology against me as a weapon to protect themselves at the expense of my life.
BBC News Friday, 12 January 2007, 14:51 GMT
Life term for girl's rape, kidnap
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A convicted rapist has been jailed for life for the kidnap and rape of a girl of 15 from north Wales last October.
Alan Grant, also known as Alan Weston, from Stockport, Greater Manchester, had been jailed in 1991 for 12 years for raping a woman in her West Sussex home.
Grant, 49, forced the girl into his van in Wrexham and subjected her to a 15-hour "horrendous" ordeal.
He pleaded guilty at Mold Crown Court and the judge recommended that he should serve at least seven years.
Greater Manchester probation service said Grant had finished a supervision order after his first conviction for rape around six weeks before he abducted and raped the 15-year-old girl.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/north_east/6255231.stm
4. Sail forth into the realm of free data from the government since it was compiled at taxpayer's expense and should be free to all. This might be a giant leap in that direction. Read the whole article at the link below this overview.
BBC News Friday, 12 January 2007, 11:55 GMT
Government looks at data shake-up
 The Statute Law Database lists 14th century concerns |
The way the government makes its vast amounts of data available to the public could be about to change.
It has decided to make access to a database of UK laws completely free for the public to access and re-use.
It marks a "sea-change" in the way government information becomes available to the public, a senior civil servant has told the BBC News website.
It is a victory for campaigners who think public sector information should be free for the public to use.