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Pensioner killed by woman who left unit was failed on every level, says family

Special needs bus driver Roger Leadbeater, 74, was stabbed multiple times by Emma Borowy, 32.

Evening Standard · Jan 22

New mental health facility now a 'place of belonging' after £500k overhaul

Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust has reopened their mental health centre for children and adolescents

Manchester Evening News · Jun 30, 2023

Staff faced racism at yet another of Greater Manchester's troubled mental health units, review finds

Staff fear racism from fellow colleagues as well as patients - and worry there will be no action taken or even retribution after speaking up

Manchester Evening News · Jun 26, 2023

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Mental health nurse demanded colleague 'speak English properly' and mimicked accent during 'racist' tirade

The nurse called multiple co-workers 'c***s', abandoned wards while on duty, and walked out with medication keys critical to caring for patients

Manchester Evening News · Jun 15, 2023

The serious signs missed in days before man killed his own cousin in brutal axe attack

Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust has been criticised in an independent investigation

Manchester Evening News · Jun 12, 2023

'I can't move on and get closure since my daughter was killed by total stranger'

The dad of seven-year-old Emily Jones has told how he continues to relive the horror of her being killed by a complete stranger in a Bolton park and is unhappy with a coroner's ruling

Daily Mirror · May 28, 2023

'My daughter was killed by a complete stranger. Something has to change'

"I don't feel like I have got closure."

Manchester Evening News · May 28, 2023

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'I was forcibly restrained and injected with medication I didn't want for months' - They were at their lowest and this is how they were treated

Helena Vesty reports the latest in the Greater Manchester mental health saga - as those needing help most speak of feeling abandoned by those supposed to be looking after them and being ‘shipped’ to distant parts of the country in their most distressing days

Manchester Evening News · May 26, 2023

'We can't look the people of Manchester in the eye and say things have changed': Troubled mental health trust 'not making progress' desperately needed

Town hall leaders railed against the failing mental health trust - while its chief executive remained absent

Manchester Evening News · May 24, 2023

The failing NHS trust facing questions as chief executive missing

It was hoped the chief executive would answer questions as the man who has overseen the years of turmoil - as time runs out on his tenure

Manchester Evening News · May 23, 2023

"We want something good to come from this": Father of tragic schoolgirl Emily Jones speaks after inquest into her death

A coroner said he did not consider that the killing of Emily Jones 'could or should have been predicted'

Manchester Evening News · May 22, 2023

The Mancunian Way: Britain’s coolest 1960s station café?

The lease on Oxford Road station’s mid century café is available PLUS The system failing mental health patients

Manchester Evening News · Apr 17, 2023

The system is failing and these people deserved so much more

We look at the fall of Greater Manchester's mental health services - what went wrong?

Manchester Evening News · Apr 17, 2023

Greater Manchester mental health chief resigns after patient abuse scandal

The trust chief's resignation comes after 'awful failings' at the Edenfield Centre - and 'other challenges', he has announced

Manchester Evening News · Apr 14, 2023

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Manchester Evening News · Apr 5, 2023

Woman killed herself days after being discharged from hospital over previous suicide attempt

Fizza Ahmed died on April 3

Manchester Evening News · Apr 5, 2023

'I missed birthday parties, I'd dread being asked to drinks - I had no clue how ill I was'

"I always compare it to an addiction - you don't have a clue how ill you are, it creeps up on you and then it takes somebody else to point it out to you"

Manchester Evening News · Mar 29, 2023

Children's mental health service in Wigan 'struggling with staffing'

“We are not fully staffed, I don’t know about anywhere in mental health that is fully staffed."

Manchester Evening News · Feb 17, 2023

Scandal-rocked mental health services hit with 'inadequate' rating as hospital wards branded unsafe

The trust has already been the subject of multiple investigations, the highest level of scrutiny from NHS England and being placed 'in the equivalent of special measures'

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Manchester Evening News · Jan 31, 2023

Death of 'caring' young woman at mental health unit contributed to by 'ineffective' policies, inquest concludes

Ania Sohail, 22, collapsed after ingesting medication bought online whilst a patient at the Junction 17 unit in Prestwich

Manchester Evening News · Jan 30, 2023

GMP reopen investigation into boy's death as hospital records may have been edited AFTER tragedy

Charlie Millers, 17, died five days after he was found unresponsive in his room at Prestwich Hospital in December 2020

Manchester Evening News · Dec 5, 2022

Coroner slams eight-hour response to 999 call about woman who was found dead

An inquest into the death of Angeline Phillips was told at one point last Autumn it was taking officers an average of over 17 HOURS to respond to some calls

Manchester Evening News · Nov 23, 2022

Mancunian Way - Unhappy Christmas beckons for NHS

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Manchester Evening News · Oct 31, 2022

BREAKING: Jury rules 'neglect' after death of 18-year-old Prestwich mental health unit inmate

Rowan Thompson died aged 18 following a breakdown in communication over vital blood test results

Manchester Evening News · Oct 31, 2022

Vital blood test results 'never reached Prestwich unit due to old phone numbers' day before teen's death

Jurors have been sent out to deliberate

Manchester Evening News · Oct 12, 2022

Demands for public inquiry amid 'catastrophic disaster' at mental health unit as alleged abuse exposed

Staff, including support workers, and registered nurses, were secretly filmed by an undercover Panorama reporter

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