£25,000 fund to help East Lancashire MPs with mental health problems (From Lancashire Telegraph)
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£25,000 fund to help East Lancashire MPs with mental health problems
5:00pm Friday 15th February 2013 in News
Blackburn MP Jack Straw
EAST Lancashire MPs will have access to mental health treatment in Westminster following the approval of a new £25,000 fund.
The House of Commons has approved an annual budget because it is hard for MPs to access such services in their constituencies because of “their profile in the community”.
Under the plans, doctors will be contracted to work at Westminster.
Blackburn MP Jack Straw, who confessed in his autobiography earlier this year to suffering from depression soon after being elected to Parliament in 1979, said: “I think this is a good idea.
“Being an MP can be very stressful, isolating and disruptive to family life. It can be very hard for an MP to seek help for mental health problems because of their public profile.”
Comments(9)
HarryBosch
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5:29pm Fri 15 Feb 13
thermio
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6:00pm Fri 15 Feb 13
I_Love_Mommy
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6:35pm Fri 15 Feb 13
frank
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7:39pm Fri 15 Feb 13
more snout in trough.
WHAT ABOUT THE CARERS YOU'RE ROBBING?
sorry for the waste of words, no morals no conscience - the lot of 'em
BIG BOSS
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10:02pm Fri 15 Feb 13
BIG BOSS
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10:08pm Fri 15 Feb 13
trajan
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10:16pm Fri 15 Feb 13
usinganame
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3:06pm Sat 16 Feb 13
Every opportunity to kick someones head in with childish, adolescent and certainly not 'adult' minded discussions. By and from people ... whom more than likely have more problems in that direction than they'd like anyone to know about. Some in positions of 'responsibility'. I know a carer for example who takes drugs yet can and is allowed to look after vulnerable people or the other person who looks after a relative as their main carer whom drinks heavily but your possibly one of those who thinks that is 'normal'. I won't include anyone whom I personally know of that work in mental health and batter their partners, drugs and are oddly allowed to continue working looking after vulnerable people. But, hey, that's 'normal' isn't it? I could go on with examples but ... Which people should be shocked over but maybe playing Xbox or YouTube has done something to them so they have short attention spans and can only understand pictures.
Btw the examples I give above are not to attack but to maybe give a sense of perspective. I think there are some whom can afford to sensationalized things as reported because maybe theyve never had any real problems or had an easylife or just are ignorant.
Telegraph would you please look into the numerous user accounts that are quite obviously sock accounts and have been flooding your site for a long while now.
MJA says...
5:27pm Fri 15 Feb 13