Invitation: Campaign meeting: 6.30 p.m. on Tuesday 3rd March at the Vauxhall Centre, Norwich NR2 2SA

ALL MEETINGS ARE CURRENTLY SUSPENDED DUE TO COVID-19.

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) remains the only mental health trust in the country ever to be placed in special measures, where it remains. The voices of services users, carers and front line staff are not heard at NSFT and people are being let down.

If you are a staff member and feel intimidated by NSFT management from coming along, you can always contact us confidentially. We will also be discussing the meltdown in community and crisis services, the consequent beds crisis.

Our regular monthly meeting begins at 6.30 p.m. on Tuesday 3rd March 2019 at the Vauxhall Centre, Norwich NR2 2SA.

There is a map below. There is parking outside or close by. Join us and find out more about our campaign and the crisis in mental health services. The friendly porter will show you the way if you can’t find us.

We are now in our sixth year of campaigning for decent mental health services in Norfolk and Suffolk. We’ve achieved a lot but there is even more to do. Please do come along and show your support: it makes such a difference.

Perhaps you felt inspired by our March for Mental Health or the Panorama to join our fight for decent mental health services? Hundreds of people marched to demand better mental health services and service users, carers, the bereaved and NHS staff told us that they were comforted and uplifted by the presence of so many people who cared. If you can’t get to the meeting but would like to help, do please get in touch.

You don’t have to be a committee member or a helper to come along, just a campaign supporter. Do please join us if you would like to help us, whether you are a service user, a carer, a member of staff, or a concerned member of the public. It would be very nice to meet you. If you feel you would like to chat with or meet a campaign member informally before attending a meeting, please get in touch – people who feel anxious about new situations or the bereaved have found this particularly useful in the past. We will do all we can to support and include you.

If you’re not a supporter, represent an organisation, or are a member of the media, you need to get in touch first. People’s confidentiality must be respected.

9 thoughts on “Invitation: Campaign meeting: 6.30 p.m. on Tuesday 3rd March at the Vauxhall Centre, Norwich NR2 2SA”

  1. wish i could come but live way outside Norwich and cannot travel without someone to help me.  I don’t go out a night but if you have a daytime meeting i would be happy to come to that

    Good luck tomorrow

    Jo

  2. As well as planning activities we get valuable feedback from people regarding their experience of our local mental health services. NSFT have also changed their minds about meeting with us; we have a meeting planned with Jane Sayer, NSFT’s Director of Nursing, possibly on 19th April to discuss what can be done to reduce the high number of unexpected deaths of patients under the care of NSFT. We are also getting contacts from other parts of the country who, of course, are also experiencing severe cuts to mental health services.

  3. I have found these meetings indispensable to know what is happening with the management of the Trust. If you read what the Trust says about itself you would think it is the best mental health trust in the country when it is almost the worst! Join the campaign to learn the truth!

  4. I would love to get involved in your campaigning. My wife was recently sectioned due to her early onset dementia. The process was cruel, heartless and devoid of any compassion or humanity

    I have engaged with the foundation directly and they seem to be listening. However the problems seem to be systemic

    Attending meetings in Norwich (we are in the West of the county) is difficult as she is returning home and leaving her is difficult

    Anything i can do?

     

  5. In particular I would love to see more  service users attend and would be happy to meet anyone prior to the meeting to offer support (I am a su myself )

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