Parliament Workbench

Petition · PE01716 · Session 5

Full review of mental health service provision across the NHS in Scotland

Closed Submitted 4 Nov 2018 Health
Signatures
0
882 online signatures with a country
Comments
102
Considered
2 meetings
in the Official Report

What it asks

Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to carry out a full review of mental health services across the NHS in Scotland, to ensure that policy and practice is delivered consistently across the country.

What the petitioner did first

Raised this issue with Monica Lennon MSP, who asked a question to the First Minister. Have had a meeting with the mental health minister, and our concerns have been reported in the media.

Where it was considered

Official Report
  1. 4 Apr 2019
    Public Petitions Committee
    New Petition
    1 mention
  2. 21 Nov 2019
    Public Petitions Committee
    Continued Petitions
    1 mention

Signatures by country

882 online signatures
  1. Scotland759 86.1%
  2. United Kingdom77 8.7%
  3. England30 3.4%
  4. Australia6 0.7%
  5. Ireland2 0.2%
  6. Northern Ireland2 0.2%
  7. Spain1 0.1%
  8. United States1 0.1%
  9. Wales1 0.1%
  10. Cyprus1 0.1%
  11. 2 other countries2 0.2%

Comments

102 comments, oldest first
102 comments · showing 1–50
  1. Barbara Irvine 6 Feb 2019
    Mental health for adults is diabolical to non existent. Totally not fit for purpose
  2. Michael mckeown 6 Feb 2019
    Something needs to be done to help people struggling with mental health problems and help for their families
  3. Alison Melville 6 Feb 2019
    Because people deserve to have the help they need..
  4. Claire Coyle 6 Feb 2019
    Mental health service is ridiculous!
  5. Richard Grogan 7 Feb 2019
    Action now. Too many people being let down, too many needless deaths
  6. Lynne Shorey 7 Feb 2019
    So sad this had to happen, where was the help when it was needed
  7. Jeanie dunsmore 8 Feb 2019
    More help needed
  8. Anne roarty 8 Feb 2019
    It takes everyone to stand together
  9. Marie Donnelly 8 Feb 2019
    Our kids need help ASAP before more die from suicide!
  10. Jo pate 8 Feb 2019
    Too many young people taking their own life
  11. Lee Anne Mahon 8 Feb 2019
    So sad this affects a lot off people and devastateds families, there should be more mental heath centres that people can attend when needed
  12. Beverley Dick 9 Feb 2019
    I have been somewhat been In Receipt of torture psychological Neglec abusy to my Human Rights breaches and criminal. Intent from Nursing staff of a psychiatric hospital.I am not getting any Justice to the Torture and abuse I had to Endure as a Patient.
  13. Shannon Brown 9 Feb 2019
    Last year my 16 year old brother committed suicide -he had the hardest life growing up and family was very important to us all. In 2014 our papa died, now when I say he was our papa he really was our dad he had been there from day one helping mum bring us up. Then a year later our mum died in her sleep and Callum tried to save her, unfortunately she had died well before any of us were able to know. Callum was so young and tried to act to strong and brave to get his family members threw it. Unfortunately without any help from any professionals we just had to get on with things and in 2018 it got a bit much for my brother and he sadly ended his life.

    This needs to stop
    - we need help
  14. Sharon mckeown 9 Feb 2019
    The mental health service is failing everyone from our young to our orderly. More needs to be done. How many preventable deaths dose there need to be before adequate help is available.
  15. Amanda Mclaren 9 Feb 2019
    I have been fighting for 4 years since losing a family member to suicide because of failings on the system the assessment process isn't fit for purpose and it is filled with loopholes to which staff are never held accountable for their failings things need to change doctors need to believe people who go for help and stop treating them like they are attention seeking and believe them
  16. Racquel Ferrier 9 Feb 2019
    Drastic changes are definitely needed. Domestic staff seem to be able to understand patients better than qualified doctors & nurses. Shocking standards. Disgusted at the treatment a family member received .
  17. Aileen Heenan 9 Feb 2019
    Too many people being let down when they are crying out for help, things need to change
  18. Kenny Selbie 10 Feb 2019
    It's vile and disgusting the lies the conspiracy the incompetence and it reeks of corruption top to bottom imo allegedly from the very top to the bottom in NHS Lanarkshire
  19. Sandra small 10 Feb 2019
    More needs to be done for mentalhealth
  20. Michael mckeown 10 Feb 2019
    Not enough help for people with mental health issues
  21. Carol Cullen 11 Feb 2019
    To many people are not getting the right help with there illness
  22. James Paulin 11 Feb 2019
    Full support to Karen with this. The NHS do not listen. I had issues back in 2012, so nothings really changed since then.
  23. Lindsey Robb 11 Feb 2019
    I support this petition because I feel that too many people are suffering from mental health problems and the supports are not adaequate to meet current demand. A review would bring all evidence together about service provision and statistics which could then inform an open debate about the issues faced in Scotland
  24. Kay Millan 11 Feb 2019
    How often does this need to happen before mental health services become fit for purpose?
  25. Fiona Wherrett 11 Feb 2019
    The whole health service is in need of review and reform. It won't do just to put more managers in! Considering the tragic cases we hear more about every day, I'd say that more than just a review of mental health care is the most important
    - total reform is needed to give us the 21st century healthcare we should all have. The sooner this is done the better. My sympathies are with the families of those who have died.
  26. Christine Green 11 Feb 2019
    Our experience in 2013 when a family member died was equally bad. Poor support for them and no support for their family post suicide.
  27. Alexander Ford 11 Feb 2019
    The Government talks the talk, but my experience of mental health teams shows they don't care one bit. Mental Health service needs a full review to make it fit for purpose.
  28. Susan Corbett 11 Feb 2019
    Too many lives being lost needlessly
  29. Paul Smith 11 Feb 2019
    I was the same year at High School with Luke, I literally read this today on the bbc website and it was the first time I had found out Luke had taken his own life and was saddened by it as he was always a good guy through school and whenever I bumped into him after we left I think because mental health is no longer a stigma and people are getting help they need the funding, training and staff arent available. More definitely needs done to help everyone involved in this. Im sorry to both your families Karen and Gillian for what you have went through and hope your petition gets you the closure, help and to ensure no other families have to suffer what you have.
    Rest in Peace Luke and David.
    Paul
  30. Gail Vickers 11 Feb 2019
    People need access to emergency psychiatric help when they are in distress. Too many deaths.
    Love to see mental health Education in schools too.
  31. Kate Young 11 Feb 2019
    a family member took their life in September 2018. We feel they were let down by NHS Scotland. V similar story with no consistency of care, lack of support when in crisis, discharged with no adequate care plan in place, lack of communication between all the relevant departments. Culminated in them feeling dis-believed and unsupported. They were so tired and distressed by this point with so much energy taken up trying to get the help and support they so deserved. They no longer knew who to turn to.
  32. duncan dowie 11 Feb 2019
    Mental health help for Men in Scotland , what is that , you have a better chance of going to the moon, so sorry for your loss, I was lucky and sought out private help .
  33. June McGowan 11 Feb 2019
    I lost my husband to suicide in September 2018. He too had sought help from the NHS in the weeks prior to his death. He was suffering terribly from severe anxiety and depression. We definitely need a review of mental health services to ensure people like my husband receive the appropriate care they deserve.
  34. Jane Sayer 11 Feb 2019
    Resources for mental health are underfunded and stretched to breaking point. Too many people are asking for help and being denied. Better care is needed and more quickly.
  35. Adele McMeekin 11 Feb 2019
    Mental health services failed my brother nearly twenty years ago and the Mental Health Commission said lessons would be learnt from his death. It is so sad to hear twenty years on this is still happening.
  36. Katrina Lambert 11 Feb 2019
    To many people let down by the system
  37. Geraldine McCormack 12 Feb 2019
    There's so many people out there who need and want help but feel there is nothing available to them
  38. Gillian McMaster 12 Feb 2019
    Change is needed now. My husband completed suicide in 2015. NHS Ayrshire & Arran MH Services had a chance to help him but failed him and our family. Their process and procedures are inadequate, with no accountability.
  39. Gillian King 12 Feb 2019
    Sadly the world.we live in is causing far too.high rates of mental.health.issues across.the.board from.young people up to adults ... as the biggest killer of young men why are so.many people.being so let down and left to die??
  40. Pauline Mallon 12 Feb 2019
    Chris's House has done more than the NHS in the years the charity has been here... Lost my Dad, his friends Chris Hands and Peter Court, recently my brother from another mother, Murray aged 16... 3 other KIDS tooks their life in Wishaw within the months of Murray AND there has been more since!!!
  41. Brian McArthur 12 Feb 2019
    There isn't a proper Mental Health Service in Scotland full stop what we have as a so-called service is nothing short of a disgrace.
  42. Mrs muriel mcconnell 12 Feb 2019
    Childrens mental health has a 30 week waiting time.
  43. Melissa MCCLUSKEY 12 Feb 2019
    This service desperately needs reviewed
  44. Suzanne MacRae 12 Feb 2019
    People are not receiving the right help on time. Something need to be done immediately.
  45. Allison Logan 12 Feb 2019
    Police should also be trained on how to deal with this type of thing. I know of a situation when someone went missing with the intent to commit suicide. The police kicked their door in and charged the person for a new lock and for police time!
  46. diane duke 12 Feb 2019
    A family member spent 5 years in hospital they let they out took them of their meds they went ill and stabbed me and is now very ill in prison mental health turned them away numerous times .
  47. Norma Stride 12 Feb 2019
    Too many hurdles for people to get help!! Too many forms to fill in. Disgusting!! People are put off asking for help!!!
  48. Jane McGeorge 12 Feb 2019
    Social media, tv and life in general is full of stories about people losing the will to fight mental health. More needs to be done to help before it gets any worse.
  49. Derek Davidson 12 Feb 2019
    Mental health is a huge expanding issue in Scotlsnd......the appropriate support and assistance must be provided to keep people safe from themselves
  50. Annemarie ruiz 12 Feb 2019
    Yes to many ppl being let down through mental health have helped many of ppl with simillar situations in some profesionals dismiss it as if its nothing