Sometimes you hear about ideas or see comments made that leave you open-mouthed shaking your head in disbelief. Here are some of them:
- Mental health wrist bands (April 2015) – Prospective parliamentary candidate for Cambridge, Conservative Chamali Fernando, calls for people with mental health problems to wear colour-coded wristbands denoting diagnosis (Varsity; Political Scrapbook; Metro; Independent; Daily Mail; BBC News; Cambridge News; Guardian; Twitter; Fernando’s responses on twitter) (Blogosphere – MH Musings)
- Mental health masks (February 2015) – Aberdeen nursing college introduces rubber masks to help teach student trainee nurses how to interact with mental health patients
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Bracelets designed to carry medical information are already available and have been for some time. These can be used to list medicines as opposed to conditions.