Don't get mad Get equal treatment

Don't get mad, Get equal treatment is a campaign against stigma in the NHS. 

For too long, I have replied to letters emails detailing medical attitudes and treatment mistakes based on a patient's mental health history with spineless and useless platitudes.  

In 2008 I was voted Mind Mental Health Champion because of my work with the Doctors' Support Network. The Doctors' Support Network was set up to tackle discrimination based on mental health within the medical profession. There have been some successes and some failures. 

The successes are 

1 - acknowledgement of the existence of poor mental health within the medical profession 

2 - limited protection for such doctors within the NHS through occupational health

3 - an active network offering support to such doctors 

The failures are 

1 - the unquestioned right of doctors to make abusive comments about patients with mental health problems and doctors with mental health problems 

2 - the General Medical Council's attitude to doctors with mental health problems, whereby doctors are brought before a quasi-judicial tribunal and forced with the aid of a barrister and solicitor, to prove that they are of sound mind 

3 - the failure to challenge the attitudes of doctors towards colleagues and patients with mental health problems

The purpose of this blog is to start to right those wrongs and to provide a forum for people who have been medically discriminated against on account of their mental health history. 

If you want to post your story - add it to the comments section, if you want to make a post - email me, and I will add your name to the list of people who can post here. 

People with poor mental health and mental health problems are valued members of society as much as any other group, whether disabled or belonging to an ethnic, religious or cultural minority. 

Yes we want integration and we want integration for everyone. 

My mission is to "Change the way we manage our mental and physical health and have some fun whilst so doing" 

This campaign starts in my back garden, with the medical profession