EDP: Mental health trust boss admits ‘still too many’ patients were sent out of the area as more than £500,000 was spent on doing so last month

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Geraldine Scott of the Eastern Daily Press reports: More than £500,000 was spent on sending patients under the care of the region’s mental health trust to other facilities in the last month as bosses admit “still too many” patients were being sent out of the area for treatment. Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) […]

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Deaths Crisis: Your comments: BBC Panorama: Britain’s Mental Health Crisis

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Below is a selection of the messages we have received since the BBC Panorama programme examining the massive increase in the number of unexpected deaths after the savage cuts inflicted upon mental health services in Norfolk and Suffolk: So grateful to make contact and so pleased to learn about the efforts being made to draw

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Sunday 30th April 2017: March for Mental Health: ‘We will remember them’: Posters/flyers to print, email, distribute and display

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Click on the poster/flyer below to download the pdf to print, email, distribute, display or make into placards for the March for Mental Health on Sunday 30th April 2017. If you are an individual or organisation that would like printed flyers or wishes to help us with the March for Mental Health, please contact us.

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Deaths Crisis: EDP: Norwich man suffering psychotic episode died after being restrained, inquest hears

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Adam Howlett of the Eastern Daily Press reports: A man who suffered fatal injuries while under the care of the Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust had run out of medication to treat his schizophrenia, an inquest has heard. Neil Jewell, 42, of Philadelphia Lane, Norwich, died at Ipswich Hospital on January 17, 2014, after

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Deaths crisis: The graph that exposes the scandal at NSFT

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Our campaign was founded in November 2013 by health professionals who were desperately worried about what they believed was an increase in preventable deaths at Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) as a result of the ‘radical redesign’, which saw assertive outreach and homeless teams closed, link workers in GPs surgeries abolished, entire hospital wards closed, crisis

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NHS Staff Survey 2016 – Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) is appalling – yet again

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Yet again, the NHS Staff Survey results are appalling. The extremely expensive Comms Department at Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) will try to spin these results, just as it did with the most recent CQC inspection which found that mental health services were unsafe, that NSFT doesn’t have enough doctors, staff and beds and that

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