Online Calendar and tracker.

I’ve included an online calendar on the blog here that can be accessed from links collumn on right just above Action Links.

Its labelled Online Calender /Organiser so its pretty hard to miss.

Anyone can add to it but edit is limited to your own entries at the moment because unless we set up team blogger permissions, which isn’t a bad idea, there isn’t much point in populating the calendar with details of correspondence and other matters if edit is enabled and anyone can accidentally or otherwise delete it.

Paul, who obviously likes the sound of his own voice has also kindly offered to provide a summary of the state of play with the Surrey & Borders Patient & Public Involvment Forum as he is convinced , as many other people are too, that this august body has just a tad too close a relationship with the Trust it exists to scrutinise and/or the Forum members have been asleep on the job.

We look forward to getting that audio and would also like to wish Paul and Simon from the Birmingham group ( link please!) all the best with their MH Arts iniative which aims to pass on tech skills to service users ao that they can get their own voices heard using free and open source software to run their own blogs, boards and other types of websites , including sophisticated content management systems.

I think we are living in exciting times developmentally because as MH services are cut to the bone or reconfigered to emotionally and financially support those who work for them while the bureaucrats and politicians conspire or look the other way, many service users initially traumatised by this top down form of social anbandonment have struggled against the odds to get their voices heard online.

Surrey & Borders management may well think that the future belongs to corporate heroes like Peter Kinsey who has clearly been able to stage manage a meaningless consultation process to dupe people with learning difficulties out of few pounds but actually it doesn’t ,it'll belong to those with a bit more credibility.