Audio: Crisis in services for children (CAMHS) is the lead interview on BBC Radio Norfolk Breakfast

Campaign members Dr. Irene Lampert, consultant child psychiatrist, and Terry Skyrme, Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP), are interviewed by Nicky Price of the BBC about the cuts and crisis in mental health services for children and young people (CAMHS). CAMHS services at Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust suffered the largest cuts in England according […]

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Sheringham Independent: Skyrme vs. Lamb

Terry Skyrme of the Campaign, who lives in Norman Lamb’s North Norfolk constituency, gives Lamb a roasting: We in the Campaign to save Mental Health Services in Norfolk and Suffolk find it hard to stomach Norman Lamb’s continuous efforts to present himself as the champion of the mentally ill. He has been a Health Minister

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EDP: ‘I feel like I’ve been kidnapped’ – mental health patient who should’ve been released speaks out about ordeal

Almost four months on from the tribunal, his parents – Richard and Maxine, who run the post office in Thorpe End – are doubtful their son could be with them for Christmas. “I feel like I’ve been kidnapped,” Oliver Lang said. “It’s making me depressed.” ‘The mental health system is like a castle’ In Franz

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EDP: Mental-health patients left in cells and secure unit, people deprived of their liberty, NSFT finances are appalling

This is absolutely shocking: A Norwich man with mental-health problems was kept in a police cell for more than 24 hours and then sent to a private hospital 175 miles away for two weeks because there were not any beds for him in East Anglia. This is appalling: A 25-year-old man is being kept in

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EDP: Cash-strapped Norfolk and Suffolk mental health trust spends £307,500 on one redundancy

This is an incredible story of hubris and incompetence which has placed the safety of mental health services at risk due to the subsequent recruitment crisis as well as wasting millions of pounds. However, it is vital that people who depend on mental health services do not pay the price of the NHS bureaucracy’s repeated mistakes.

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It is a crisis: What MIND really thinks about mental health under Health Minister Norman Lamb and the CCGs created by his government

Mind has written privately to all prospective Members of Parliament. Rather than the usual sycophantic nonsense for public consumption, Mind has told the brutal truth to prospective MPs: that the consequences of the Health & Social Care Act 2012, the introduction of Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) and the tenure of Secretary of State at the

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Audio: Monitor investigation of NSFT is lead interview on BBC Radio Norfolk Breakfast. Norman Lamb is unavailable.

Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) nurse and mental health campaigner, Emma Corlett of Unison, is interviewed by Nicky Price of the BBC. The investigation launched by the NHS regulator, Monitor, was the lead story on BBC Radio Norfolk Breakfast. Norman Lamb claimed to be unavailable for interview and could only issue a mealy-mouthed

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BBC News: Monitor to launch inquiry into Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust

NHS regulator Monitor is to launch an inquiry into the mental health trust for Norfolk and Suffolk after concerns were raised over its finances. Monitor said it would look into whether Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) had breached the terms of its licence over its £1.72m deficit. The inquiry follows a Care Quality

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10-bed Assessment Unit fiasco: Can it get worse?

Several supporters have been in touch. They tell us that while Nic Rigby’s report of the rejection of the opening of the 10-bed Assessment Unit is accurate, it is quite conservative in the conclusions it draws. We have also been sent by several sources the relevant sections of the Investment Committee (IC) report submitted by

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BBC News: Norfolk and Suffolk health: Warning over ward plan

A mental health trust does not have funds to reopen a ward intended to ease a beds crisis, a report has warned. The Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust (NSFT) announced in September plans to reopen 10 beds at Hellesdon Hospital. A report to the trust in October said it should not reopen the ward because

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Video: BBC Look East – Number of people in beds beyond Norfolk & Suffolk rises to 50!

When we started our campaign one year ago, we never thought the beds and community crises would become worse. But they have! We’ve won some victories but imagine how much worse things would be without our campaign! Join us at our Anniversary Open Meeting on Thursday 27th November to fight for decent mental health services. As

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BBC News: Mental health in Norfolk and Suffolk ‘£30m underfunded’

On Saturday the BBC revealed the trust had 50 patients in beds outside the counties, due to a lack of funding and a shortage of beds. The Campaign to Save Mental Health Services in Norfolk and Suffolk has said the trust’s programme to make £40m of cuts by 2018 has had a “devastating impact on

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Invitation to our Anniversary Open Meeting on Thursday 27th November, 7.30-9.30 p.m. Vauxhall Centre, Norwich NR2 2SA

INVITATION TO OUR ANNIVERSARY OPEN MEETING ON THURSDAY 27TH NOVEMBER, 7.30-9.30 PM VAUXHALL CENTRE, NORWICH NR2 2SA Dear all, Our Campaign started a year ago this month when mental health services in Norfolk and Suffolk first reached crisis point. The ‘Nicholson Challenge’ imposed £20 billion cost savings on all NHS Trusts. As a result, Norfolk &

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BBC News: Norfolk and Suffolk mental health cuts ‘devastating’, campaigners say

Funding cuts in Norfolk and Suffolk show the government is failing to put mental and physical health on an equal footing, campaigners say. Mainstream hospitals in the two counties have seen budgets rise by 15% since 2010, while mental health service funding has fallen by 3%. The Campaign to Save Mental Health Services in Norfolk

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Mirror: Kids with mental illness ‘betrayed’: Suicidal children turned away as unacceptable cuts slammed

Thousands of mentally unwell children are being failed because of “serious and deeply ingrained problems” in the provision of care, MPs warn today. In a damning 117-page report, the Health Select Committee lays bare the alarming failings in children’s mental health services. Its report warns how “in many areas early intervention services are being cut

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