EDP: Private Sussex hospital Priory Ticehurst put East Anglia teenager in a room with disturbing messages from former patients

Nicholas Carding of the Eastern Daily Press reports: A 16-year old has described her stay in a private hospital where former teenage patients had left messages encouraging self-harm and assault on her room’s wall. Her room was completely bare – containing nothing but a sheetless bed and a window. She sat on the bed, mentally […]

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Crisis Team Crisis: More than a month after the deadline for ending the use of beds beyond Norfolk & Suffolk, the crisis is WORSE not better

Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) and the three clinical commissioning groups in central Norfolk (North Norfolk CCG, South Norfolk CCG, Norwich CCG) made a big splash of their undertaking to end the inhumane, expensive, dangerous and illegal practice of having insufficient beds for people in mental health crisis in Norfolk and Suffolk, which

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