Video: BBC Look East on our AGM protest over removal of unexpected deaths from NSFT Annual Report and Prime Minister’s Questions

Watch Kevin Burch of the BBC report on our AGM protest over the ever-increasing number of deaths of patients of Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) and the decision of the NSFT Board to remove the number of unexpected deaths from its Annual Report and Accounts 2015-16. The number of unexpected deaths has appeared […]

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EADT: Protest at Norfolk and Suffolk mental health trust AGM over unexpected patient deaths data

Gemma Mitchell of the East Anglian Daily Times reports: Campaigners have demanded answers and greater transparency from mental health bosses over a “shocking” rise in unexpected patient deaths in Suffolk and Norfolk. Bereaved families, carers, patients and NHS staff were among the protesters who yesterday attended the annual general meeting (AGM) of the trust that

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Campaign speaking at Momentum Norfolk public meeting: Tuesday 16th August, Belvedere Centre, Belvoir Road, Norwich NR2 3AZ at 7 p.m.

We have been invited to speak about mental health and the importance of local campaigning at a rally organised by Momentum Norfolk. Why not come along and listen? We are non-party political. We will happily to accept invitations from all mainstream political parties in Norfolk and Suffolk. Here is some further information from the organisers:

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RSA Norwich: The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions

Terry Skyrme reflects on the recent RSA mental health event in Norwich: “Campaign supporters held a protest outside an event organized by the RSA at St Michael’s church in Norwich. Speakers at the event represented the “Third sector” and other mainstream services such as Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT), the main provider of

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The Norwich Radical: The Elephant in the Room: Norfolk’s Mental Health Crisis

Hannah Rose reports in The Norwich Radical from the recent RSA event: Instead, I was perturbed by the oddly formal sense of occasion — cheese and wine were offered on arrival — and I was given instructions to mingle. I had the distinct feeling that I was definitely at the wrong meeting. Only around fifty chairs

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Protest: RSA: “Throwing money we don’t have at a problem that just won’t go away is not the answer.”

Tomorrow evening, on Tuesday 7th June 2016, we will be protesting at the failure to invite service users, carers and professionals to an event the purpose of which is said to be finding ‘affordable, innovative new solutions’ to mental health. We will be assembling outside St Michael at Plea in Norwich from 5.45 p.m. A

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Gallery: March for Mental Health, King’s Lynn

Today, members of the Campaign to Save Mental Health Services in Norfolk and Suffolk from throughout East Anglia joined local people from West Norfolk to protest against the closure of one quarter of the remaining acute mental health beds in West Norfolk at the Fermoy Unit in King’s Lynn and to highlight the threat to

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Public Meeting: We are among speakers at Blackfriars Hall, Norwich NR3 1AU at 7 p.m. on Friday 11th December

We are speaking about the mental health crisis at the public meeting at Blackfriars Hall, Norwich NR3 1AU at 7 p.m. on Friday 11th December. Come along and support us. Other speakers include influential tax campaigner Richard Murphy, Syriza member and UEA academic Marina Prentoulis, Green Group Leader Richard Bearman, Labour and Unison activist Jo

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Gallery: Demonstration at Hellesdon Hospital 1st March 2014

We held a demonstration outside Hellesdon Hospital on Saturday 1st March to highlight both the unannounced and scandalous plans to close 13 hostel beds at Hellesdon Hospital and the deepening crisis in mental health services in Norfolk and Suffolk.

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