On 18th March 2024 the United Nations Disability Committee met in Geneva to hear the UK governments evidence as part of a follow-up to the special inquiry undertaken by the UN Committee for the Convention on the Rights of Disabled People. The special inquiry report published in 2016 found the UK guilty of grave and […]
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17 February 2024 The Campaign wrote to the Care Quality Commission (CQC), and the other organisiations on the 11 December 2023 due to their continuous silence rather than holding Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) to account, amidst more repeated failures and more public uncovering of the death crisis. The letter from the campaign:
Letter[s] to NHSE regarding the deaths crisis (and their NON reply..) Read More »
17 February 2024 The Campaign wrote to the Care Quality Commission (CQC), and the other organisiations on the 11 December 2023 due to their continuous silence rather than holding Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) to account, amidst more repeated failures and more public uncovering of the death crisis. The first letter was sent
Letter to CQC regarding the deaths crisis at NSFT (and their reply) Read More »
Following our meeting with MPs and the Minister for Mental Health (Gillian Keegan) we are keeping up the pressure for action at NSFT. Politicians are focussed on a leadership contest and we need them focussed on mental health failings in our counties. In the last two weeks we have come across more tragic deaths that
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He Died Waiting; Learning the lessons – a bereaved mother’s view of mental health services, by Caroline Aldridge, is a ‘must read’ book for anyone with an interest in mental health. Caroline’s book is unusual because she writes as a mother and as a professional with inside knowledge of mental health services. Campaign supporters (service-users, carers,
He Died Waiting: The story of Tim – who was one of hundreds of deaths at NSFT Read More »
Emily Townsend of the East Anglian Daily Times reports: The mother of a 21-year-old fashion student who killed himself after being released from a mental health hospital is “astonished” that Suffolk’s mental health trust has been kept in ‘special measures’ for so long. Henry Curtis-Williams, from Ipswich, was found dead in London in 2016 – just
EADT: Mum of university student Henry fears more deaths at troubled mental health trust Read More »
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 hundreds of miles away for treatment. It comes following a meeting of the board of directors for Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT), in
Geraldine Scott of the Eastern Daily Press reports: Serious safety incidents led to 35 deaths at the region’s mental health trust over a six month period, figures have revealed. The data, which showed the number of “unintended or unexpected incidents that could have or did lead to harm” reported between October 2017 and March 2018,
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In investigative reporting that is worthy of a national journalism award, Jessica Frank-Keyes of the Eastern Daily Press writes: Grieving parents and a retired GP say “remote, awful and inhumane” mental health support is leaving young men in north Norfolk at a heightened risk of taking their own lives. In recent months two young men
The Chair of Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT), Gary Page, has been claiming that the role of Antek Lejk in the out-of-hours scandal at NHS Cornwall was peripheral. However, we have spoken to clinicians and campaigners in Cornwall who have told us that Antek Lejk was central and a driving force of what
