Bristol mental health service to have hours slashed
A Bristol service for people suffering a mental health crisis is to have its hours slashed by health bosses forced to make budget cuts.
The 24-hour “Core 24” mental health service has been operating around the clock at the Bristol Royal Infirmary for the past four months.
But local NHS commissioners have decided to scale back the hours in a bid to plug a large hole in their finances.
Julia Ross, chief executive of the clinical commissioning group (CCG) for Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire, said: “We’ve had to make some difficult decisions and that was one of them.”
The crisis team’s new operating hours and their start date are still under discussion, according to a spokesman for the CCG.
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New suicide prevention campaign Shine On launches in Bristol area
Shine On is a group of major organisations working together to prevent suicide particularly in young people age 16-25, middle-aged men and those in the LGBT communities which are the higher risk groups. We have carried out our own research on young people’s experience of getting support in times of crisis. Many parents and carers reported a long wait, sometimes over a year, to get assessed and then periods of instability and uncertainty resulted while they had to wait, putting young people at risk of more serious mental episodes. Shine On launched in November and the next big event is The Suicide Prevention Summit which is being described as a call to action to get people to work together on suicide prevention. It will take place on January 13 from 10am until 3pm.
Throughout the day some of the latest research into suicide prevention and work happening nationally will be explored, then there will be a local focus - hearing how people have coped with crisis situations.
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