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Beds Crisis: A Partial Victory? Closure of last mental health beds in West Norfolk halted?
In February of last year, we challenged the Board of Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) about rumours that it intended to close the last mental health beds in […]
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Fixed, Flawed Farce: Part 3: EDP: A staggering waste: More than £1.6m spent sending region’s mental health patients to private hospital in just seven months
Geraldine Scott of the Eastern Daily Press reports: More than £1.6m has been spent by the region’s mental health trust on sending patients to a private hospital since it was […]
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CAMHS Crisis: EDP: Northrepps mother’s frustration over accessing mental health care for her son
Geraldine Scott, Health Correspondent of the Eastern Daily Press, reports: Michelle Kimp, 35, has struggled to get the appropriate medical treatment for her 12-year-old son Robert – who has aspergers […]
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Fixed, Flawed Farce: Part 2: EDP: Half of mental health beds budget for Norfolk and Suffolk spent in first month of year
Tom Bristow, Investigations Editor of the Eastern Daily Press reports: Last year the Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust (NSFT) went £3.5m over budget on sending patients to beds at other […]
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EDP: Crowds gather in Norwich city centre to join March for Mental Health
Sabrina Johnson of the Eastern Daily Press reports: Hundreds of people of all ages gathered in Norwich city centre to add their voices to the call for better mental health […]
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Video: BBC Look East leads with our March for Mental Health in Norwich
Jenny Kirk of the BBC reports: The number of ‘unexpected deaths’ at Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) has more than doubled in just four years.
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Beds Crisis: EDP: How 140 NHS mental health beds have been cut in Norfolk and Suffolk
Investigative reporter Tom Bristow of the Eastern Daily Press reports: A quarter of mental health beds in Norfolk and Suffolk have been lost in the last four years. While England […]
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Beds Crisis: EDP: Campaigners criticise new mental health trust proposals: ‘We want beds not cups of tea’
Geraldine Scott of the Eastern Daily Press reports: No new beds for patients in psychiatric crisis will be made available by the region’s mental health trust, despite concerns being raised […]
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EDP: ‘What people need is support and understanding’ – Sister of mental health patient Neil Jewell speaks out over the care he received before his death
Geraldine Scott interviews Neil Jewell’s brave family in the Eastern Daily Press: A family has described the “seven year period of spiralling decline” a man suffered before sustaining fatal injuries […]
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BBC News: ‘Neglect’ contributed to Neil Jewell’s death
Nikki Fox of the BBC reports: The trust which runs mental health services in Norfolk and Suffolk has apologised after an inquest found that neglect contributed to a patient’s death. […]
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Deaths Crisis: Notes on a Scandal: Safeguarding Adult Review (SAR) in respect of Mr Neil Jewell
We haven’t been able to publish the devastating review into the shocking death of Neil Jewell as a jury inquest has been taking place. However, we can now publish the […]
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EDP: Mental health trust boss admits ‘still too many’ patients were sent out of the area as more than £500,000 was spent on doing so last month
Geraldine Scott of the Eastern Daily Press reports: More than £500,000 was spent on sending patients under the care of the region’s mental health trust to other facilities in the […]
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Deaths Crisis: Your comments: BBC Panorama: Britain’s Mental Health Crisis
Below is a selection of the messages we have received since the BBC Panorama programme examining the massive increase in the number of unexpected deaths after the savage cuts inflicted […]
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Sunday 30th April 2017: March for Mental Health: ‘We will remember them’: Posters/flyers to print, email, distribute and display
Click on the poster/flyer below to download the pdf to print, email, distribute, display or make into placards for the March for Mental Health on Sunday 30th April 2017. If […]
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Deaths Crisis: EDP: Norwich man suffering psychotic episode died after being restrained, inquest hears
Adam Howlett of the Eastern Daily Press reports: A man who suffered fatal injuries while under the care of the Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust had run out of […]
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NHS Staff Survey 2016 – Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) is appalling – yet again
Yet again, the NHS Staff Survey results are appalling. The extremely expensive Comms Department at Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) will try to spin these results, just as it […]
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EADT: Damning report finds Suffolk failing some children with special education needs leaving families ‘frustrated and confused’
Andrew Hirst of the East Anglian Daily Times reports: Families have had to “fight every step of the way” to get help for the children with the greatest needs in […]
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CAMHS Crisis: in accordance with the Children Act 2004 (Joint Area Reviews) Regulations 2015, Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Education, Children’s Services and Skills (HMCI) has determined that a written statement of action is required because of significant weaknesses
Many mental health services for children and young people (CAMHS) and for people with learning disabilities in Suffolk are provided by Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT). NSFT is […]
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EDP Front Page: Mental health patient kept in Norfolk police cell for three days
Tom Bristow of the Eastern Daily Press reports: A mental health patient was kept in a police cell for three days in King’s Lynn because no bed could be found […]
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EDP: Unexpected deaths rise coincides with bed closures at region’s mental health trust, Panorama finds
Nicholas Carding of the Eastern Daily Press reports: A sharp rise in the number of mental health patients dying unexpectedly coincided with the responsible organisation cutting nearly a quarter of […]
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