The lack of acute beds available to mental health patients has left the system at breaking point, the Royal College of Psychiatrists has said. Illustrating the scale of the problem, […]
Bed Crisis, CAMHS Crisis, Community Crisis, Crisis Team Crisis, Dangerous, Gary's Page, Norman Lamb, NSFT Cuts, Press, Questions for the Board@CarolineAldrid5 @MarieELFT @NSFTtweets @NHSEngland @NHSEnglandMidE @NHSImprovement @KathyMcLean13 @MattHancock @normanlamb @JonathanW_SABP @NorfolkCC @CareQualityComm Worth also noting the representations and papers from @TheBMA @UNISONEastern and @rcpsych. Doctors, nurses, other professionals, service users and carers were all ignored. Accused of 'shroud waving'. Subsequently, deaths more than doubled, as you are all too well aware.
A spokesperson from the Campaign to Save Mental Health Services in Norfolk and Suffolk said: “People in crisis need real services, not being patronised with cups of tea and endless […]
Geraldine Scott of the Eastern Daily Press reports: A crisis hub pegged to help stem the number of mental health patients sent miles away due to a lack of beds […]
A spokesperson for the Campaign to Save Mental Health Services in Norfolk and Suffolk said: “It is scandalous that, despite many promises to stop the transportation of people in mental […]
Emily Townsend of the East Anglian Daily Times reports: The situation facing Suffolk and Norfolk’s struggling mental health trust has been dubbed “scandalous” after it emerged patients in crisis are […]
Some people have said that they find it difficult to join us at our regular monthly meeting in the evening on the first Tuesday of the month. Often, we need […]
Geraldine Scott of the Eastern Daily Press reports: A cross-party group of MPs have demanded the “chaos and confusion must end” over the region’s failing mental health care provision. Seven […]
We wrote to: Matthew Hancock, Secretary of State at the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and MP for West Suffolk Dido Harding, Chair, NHS Improvement (NHSI) Ian Dalton, […]
Former mental health nurse and Norfolk County Council mental health champion Emma Corlett writes in the Eastern Daily Press: As yet another damning report about Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation […]
Matthew Weaver of The Guardian reports: The health secretary, Matt Hancock, is facing mounting calls to intervene in England’s worst performing mental health trust after it was rated inadequate for […]