Latest dehumanising failure of our most vulnerable as more than HALF of Manchester mental health patients not being read rights

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More than half of Manchester mental health patients are not being read their rights within two weeks of being sectioned. Just 47 per cent of patients in south Manchester and only 41 per cent of patients in north Manchester are being read their rights within the first two weeks of admission to hospital after being detained under the Mental Health Act, also known as being sectioned.

The Manchester Evening News can reveal the shocking data after it was aired in a small council meeting to monitor Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust's (GMMH) performance after more than a year of revelations about patient abuse, neglect and failure of patients.

Councillors who have been scrutinising the troubled mental health trust's improvement plan slammed the figures. Trust staff representing GMMH at the meeting responded by saying they did not exactly know why the numbers of patients being read their rights within two weeks was so low.

They added that they believed the rights might be being read in more cases than shown by the data, but staff may not be entering that information into the mental health trust's system for care records. READ MORE: Mental health trust's new boss created unit where teen later died after medical notes were 'made up' by staff READ MORE: On the frontline in the hospital where kids are rushed in with knife wounds The Manchester Evening News has spent months reporting on serious issues at GMMH, including harrowing treatment of vulnerable people at inpatient facilities caught on camera and staff in racism rows across the trust.