Cuts in mental health beds have gone too far, leading to the “shameful practice” of patients being sent hundreds of miles from home to be treated, according to psychiatrists. The […]
Bed Crisis, Community Crisis, CQC Inspection, Crisis Team Crisis, Dangerous, Deaths Crisis, Fixed Flawed Farce, Meltdown, NSFT Cuts, NSFT Incompetence, Press, s136 Crisis, Sham ConsultationThis is the reality of the crisis in mental health services. 20 year old Emily has been transported from North Norfolk to Glasgow in Scotland because of the lack of local suitable beds. Imagine if this was your daughter, granddaughter or sister. She wrote this to us today. pic.twitter.com/qEqooUnQ4Y
Emily Townsend of the East Anglian Daily Times reports: A coroner has questioned online drug sales after a “bubbly” 22-year-old from Suffolk managed to purchase a huge quantity of tablets […]
This month’s meeting is going to be devoted to raising the profile of mental health before the election on 12th December 2019. Our meeting is on 3rd December 2019. We […]
Emily Townsend of the East Anglian Daily Times reports: Today marks a year since the Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust (NSFT) was rated ‘inadequate’ for the third time in a […]
Emily Townsend reports: Patients in mental health crisis are still waiting more than four hours to be seen in an emergency – with the longest delays going beyond an entire […]
Cuts in mental health beds have gone too far, leading to the “shameful practice” of patients being sent hundreds of miles from home to be treated, according to psychiatrists. The […]
Today, we have written to Care Quality Commission (CQC) expressing our concerns about the inspection currently underway at Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT), echoing the views of many […]
Tom Bristow of the Eastern Daily Press reports: It is a year since inspectors slammed the region’s mental health service for making patients wait too long for help. This week […]
Donna-Louise Bishop of the Eastern Daily Press reports: Campaigners for better mental health provisions say more needs to be done to protect the regions’s most vulnerable patients from being sent […]
This is Stuart Richardson’s paper on the beds crisis and the transportation of people which he is presenting as Chief Operating Officer of Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) […]