Royal Edinburgh Hospital Patients Council (SCIO)

About

The organisation's over-arching purpose is to provide independent collective advocacy support to people with lived experience of mental health and wellbeing issues, as well as those affecting other vulnerable and marginalised groups in institutional and community settings, via:4.1 The advancement of human rights and the improvement in quality of services, care and treatment by discussion, negotiation and holding service-providers to account. This to be achieved by facilitating regular group advocacy meetings and human rights awareness-raising meetings throughout the hospital and the community and then representing these views to relevant groups of decision-makers at various fora

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