We will be lobbying the Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) Board of Governors meeting tomorrow. Meet at 1230 on the City Hall steps. Some of us will also be attending the meeting which runs from 1300-1700 in the Council Chamber. Please join us. Despite mountains of paperwork, detailed terms of reference and long meetings, […]
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Today, the EDP issues a clarion call to our wonderful community in East Anglia. Let’s join together in 2015 to help those who cannot help themselves. We believe that some of the most vulnerable people in Norfolk and Suffolk are not getting the support they need or deserve and we cannot stand by and watch
“Last year, the Campaign to Save Mental Health Services in Norfolk & Suffolk accused Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) of having spent £7.3 million on redundancies in 2013/4 in the midst of a recruitment crisis which placed mental health services at severe risk. At the time, NSFT said our claims were ‘inaccurate’. It
Watch the video below. If you are an Apple user and have trouble viewing the embedded video you can view it directly on Youtube. Sorry, this issue is a sometime side effect of the on-going battle between Google and Apple. Thank you to Andrew Day of Equal Lives for capturing the event so well.
You can download a pdf of the poster to distribute, print and display by clicking on the image below. Please come along and stop the cuts to this unique and vital component of Norfolk’s mental health infrastructure for women. There is a location map at the bottom of this page.
David Martin’s brother, Steve, writes: “There is significant doubt that bi-lateral pneumonia was a naturally occurring natural cause for David’s death. Were multi agency failings and institutional neglect contributory factors to the sudden death of David? Deadly cocktail of prescription drugs, filthy environment and an ineffective care plan. Do those agencies need to alter their
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David’s story was told in a powerful piece of journalism by Nikki Fox on BBC Look East this evening. David died prematurely of pneumonia in squalor, without hot water or heating, aged only 52 years old in Ipswich, Suffolk. He deserved better. Please sign the petition demanding an inquest. David’s brother, Steve, writes: “The thing
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The BBC reports: Money spent on sending Norfolk and Suffolk mental health patients to other parts of England almost tripled last month to £600,000, new figures show. A spokesman for the Campaign to Save Mental Health Services in Norfolk and Suffolk said: “NSFT and the local clinical commissioning groups need to properly fund both inpatient
This practice is terrible, so why is it still happening? Doctors, patients and politicians all agree that sending people with mental health problems hundreds of miles away to get a bed is an awful idea. These patients are travelling to other parts of the country not for specialist treatment but simply because there is no space for them in Norfolk and
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Campaign members Dr. Irene Lampert, consultant child psychiatrist, and Terry Skyrme, Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP), are interviewed by Nicky Price of the BBC about the cuts and crisis in mental health services for children and young people (CAMHS). CAMHS services at Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust suffered the largest cuts in England according
Simply shocking: But in a separate blow, six beds which had been commissioned by Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust on a pilot scheme will not be funded next year. It isn’t as though Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) is desperately short of beds and transporting people around the country on a Map
Jan Ainsley from Keep our NHS Public writes: Michael Scott, Chief Executive of Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT), was “delighted” to be able to write to staff with good news. NSFT has been successful in its application to investigate becoming a mutual in the government’s “Mutuals in Healthcare Pathfinder” initiative. Sounds cuddly doesn’t
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Terry Skyrme of the Campaign, who lives in Norman Lamb’s North Norfolk constituency, gives Lamb a roasting: We in the Campaign to save Mental Health Services in Norfolk and Suffolk find it hard to stomach Norman Lamb’s continuous efforts to present himself as the champion of the mentally ill. He has been a Health Minister
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Almost four months on from the tribunal, his parents – Richard and Maxine, who run the post office in Thorpe End – are doubtful their son could be with them for Christmas. “I feel like I’ve been kidnapped,” Oliver Lang said. “It’s making me depressed.” ‘The mental health system is like a castle’ In Franz
This is absolutely shocking: A Norwich man with mental-health problems was kept in a police cell for more than 24 hours and then sent to a private hospital 175 miles away for two weeks because there were not any beds for him in East Anglia. This is appalling: A 25-year-old man is being kept in
Wonderful coverage and interviews from Sam Russell of the EDP: Carol Brady, from Norwich, stayed in the care home for six months in 2007, and has used it since for respite care. “Without Ashcroft I probably wouldn’t be here today,” she said. “The staff are brilliant and understanding of what I’m going through. “They have
It appears that the magnificent and spontaneous campaign, led by service users, to stop the closure of Ashcroft has caused Norfolk County Council to reconsider the reduction in funding which forced Julian Support to announce Ashcroft’s closure. Ashcroft delivers highly professional care, often in complex cases. It is hard to see what could replace Ashcroft
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This is an incredible story of hubris and incompetence which has placed the safety of mental health services at risk due to the subsequent recruitment crisis as well as wasting millions of pounds. However, it is vital that people who depend on mental health services do not pay the price of the NHS bureaucracy’s repeated mistakes.
