THE YouTube clip of awesome moment @BendyGirl got to #AskEdM about #disability!! #ATOS #mhuk

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What Is #Madness? by Darian Leader. #mhuk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/sep/29/what-madness-darian-leader-review

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#Cornwall: Your chance to help draw future of mental health services #mhuk

http://www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/news/9276028.Your_chance_to_help_draw_future_of_mental_health_services/

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#Students’ mental health ‘at risk’, psychiatrists warn. #mhuk

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-15112980

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And predictably #Osborne expected to oppose Tobin tax proposals. #banks

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/sep/28/barroso-backs-tobin-tax?CMP=twt_gu

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Nurses and therapists to protest over Kingston’s mental health trust cuts! #mhuk

http://www.wandsworthguardian.co.uk/news/9276281.Nurses_and_therapists_to_protest_over_mental_health_cuts/

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AWARD nomination for ‘All Wales Veterans & Wellbeing Service’. #mhuk #ptsd

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2011/09/28/ta-and-veterans-mental-health-service-up-for-health-partnership-award-91466-29502595/

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Mental health trust turns talking cures into web chats. #mhuk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/healthcare-network/2011/sep/28/mental-health-talking-cures-web-chats?newsfeed=true

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The Great British ‘UNDESERVING’? Really? #lab11 #hardesthit #mhuk #umeployment #homelessness #disability

What was I expecting from Labour and this party conference?  Actually what was I not expecting is more of an accurate way to describe my sense of ‘shock’ following their rhetoric on the ‘deserving’. Images of my Grandparents, who lived, in social housing flashed into my mind.  They were, if we are to follow Labour’s [...]

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“Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.”

“Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.”

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“Vastly under-reported”: ’200,000′ suffer dating site fraud. #crime #police

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/feedarticle/9868772

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#DPAC: Latest details on #Atos day of action 30th Sept : UK #disability #mhuk

http://www.dpac.uk.net/2011/09/latest-details-on-atos-day-of-action-30th-sept-uk-cities/

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Sir David Nicholson attacks #Lansleys foundation hospitals plan. #nhs #mhuk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/sep/28/nhs-chief-challenges-andrew-lansley

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Cambridgeshire #Police to use cells as “last resort” for people with mental illness. #mhuk #prison

http://www.elystandard.co.uk/news/police_in_cambridgeshire_told_to_only_use_cells_as_last_resort_for_those_with_mental_health_issues_1_1072727

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Woah Incredibly #Low Headline even for the Torygraph! #freakery

  ‘Teenage talent at the Labour Party conference seen as fairground freakery!’   (is ‘freakery even a word?) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/8791990/Teenage-talent-at-the-Labour-Party-conference-seen-as-fairground-freakery.html

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#Broadmoor patient Albert Haines begins public appeal for release. #mhuk #prison #landmarkcase

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/sep/27/broadmoor-patient-albert-haines-public-appeal?newsfeed=true

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Its the ‘self preservation society’! #tory #hardesthit #mhuk

 

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Hardest Hit October Gatherings and Rallies. #mhuk #hardesthit #disability

Based on close joint working between disabled people’s organisations and disability charities, Hardest Hit events have been organised for nine English regions and Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.  These will take place on Saturday 22 October. Further details below: Birmingham: Rally in Victoria Square in the city centre. Assemble from noon and the rally will [...]

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Fluctuating Outcomes! #esa #mhuk #hardesthit #disability (Thanx @ capsadvocacy)

http://capsadvocacy.org/

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British soldiers in Afghanistan allegedly shown ‘war snuff movies’. #sickening #mhuk

http://warisacrime.org/content/british-soldiers-afghanistan-shown-war-snuff-movies

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Dr. Harold Koplewicz: ‘Why We Need Psychoactive Meds.’ #mhuk #earlyintervention #iapt #hmm

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-harold-koplewicz/psychoactive-medication_b_973825.html?ref=tw

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Full Fact: Welfare Reform: How many people will lose #disability benefit? #hardesthit #mhuk

http://fullfact.org/factcheck/400,000_loose_disability_benefits-2996

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from @Mylegalforum ‘Tales from the frontline’; #WRB & #legalaid reforms move at breakneck speed; but #autistic Tom still waits for justice! #mhuk goo.gl/Rl3cI

http://mylegal.org.uk/index.cgi?board=frontline&action=display&thread=489

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#IAPT postcode lottery gulf increasing. #mhuk #nhs

https://member.ubmmedica.co.uk/verify.php?referrer=http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/newsarticle-content/-/article_display_list/12773133/postcode-lottery-in-quality-of-talking-therapies-for-depression?ssoCheck=true&groupId=4585159&parentreferrer=http://news.google.co.uk/nwshp?hl=en&tab=wn

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The #iShrink – actually, there’s a probability factor! #app #mhuk #satire

http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s5i100144

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