More high quality reporting from David Powles into the treatment, or lack of treatment, of Kieran Fulcher on the front page of the EDP. Why does the press have to do the job of our politicians and NHS bureaucracy, just as it had to at Mid Staffs? The upper echelons of the NHS behave as […]
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Nic Rigby of the BBC reports: Campaigners with taped up mouths held a protest against restrictions on their rights to ask questions to the board of the Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust The trust had allowed members of the public to ask questions at any point during the meeting, but now is only allowing questions
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It is vital that we keep up the pressure on the NSFT Board to secure proper funding and deliver real improvements for mental healthcare, especially now that NSFT refuses to meet us and is trying to whitewash the impact of the radical redesign. Board meetings are the only opportunity available to ask questions and hold
Board of Directors – Public Session Held on Thursday 26th March 2015 at 9.30 am in the Main Hall, Hellesdon Hospital Chair’s welcome and notifications Gary Page welcomed the Board of Directors, governors, staff and public. The Chair informed those present that questions from the public gallery would be taken at the end of the agenda
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Norman Lamb MP appears on itv NEWS Anglia as a campaigner, a self-proclaimed mental health champion: “It is misguided to think that you can reduce spending in mental health and not expect consequences to that” So, who is the Minister of State at the Department of Health directly responsible for mental health who has overseen
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NHS England, a leaked email reveals, have told regional health bosses the shortage of beds is so bad that older teenagers are set to be admitted to adult wards The NHS beds crisis plumbed new depths as hospitals were advised to put teenage mental health patients onto adult wards. NHS England, a leaked email reveals,
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The Admiral Nurse pilot scheme has been one of the few bright spots in Norman Lamb’s Bleak Midwinter of mental health services in Norfolk and Suffolk. Here’s is a comment made on our website back in July 2014: Yes folks he’s at it again. Whilst apparently not having remembered any of the press releases by
“Someone must have had it in for Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong, he ended up representing the Campaign to Save Mental Health Services in Norfolk & Suffolk at South Norfolk Clinical Commissioning Group’s (CCG) Public Meeting on 13th January. Or rather he should say its meeting in public, for as he was
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