The recent appalling revelations in the Mortality Review at the Norfolk andSuffolk Foundation Trust, our local mental health “provider”, have shocked this campaign to its core. To see the stark headlines of 8,000 unexpected deaths in a period of less than three and a half years was truly distressing. As a Campaign we have raised the rising […]
Statement on the Mortality Review Read More »
A couple of weeks ago Jim Mortram kindly let us take over his twitter feed for a week. The posts tell a story about our campaign so we thought we would collate them into one piece. See below: Monday Thanks to @JAMortram for inviting us, @NSFTcrisis, to take-over his tweets this week. We will tell
NSFTcrisis: Who we are and why we do what we do Read More »
To mark World Mental Health Day our campaign is organising two marches for mental health. The marches will demand decent and high-quality services in both counties. If you care about mental health services in Norfolk and Suffolk and you want to highlight to those in power that something urgently needs to be done to improve things,
Marches for Mental Health; 8th & 9th October Read More »
How do we know when enough is enough and it’s time for radical and immediate action to be taken at NSFT? When reports hit the media about 140 doctors sending a joint letter to the Trust’s chair stating how unsafe things are and there is yet another Prevention of Future Deaths report (that cites falsifying
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
Too Many Deaths: Public Inquiry Now! Read More »
Campaigners meet with MPs to call for an independent statutory public inquiry into the deaths at NSFT On Tuesday 5th July 2022 some of our campaign members went to London to meet with our region’s MPs. Below are some of the key points we were making, Caroline Aldridge’s speech, and links to some of the
Call for Public Inquiry at NSFT Read More »
Following on from the CQC report which once again rated NSFT as ‘inadequate’, our campaign is calling for a statutory public inquiry. We think that there needs to be an investigation into how many people have died and why, and why NSFT have been allowed to be in special measures for so long without improvement.
Call for a public inquiry: Lobbying MPs Read More »
For bereaved families, the consequences of inadequate mental health services are with them forever. Over a thousand people (see figures below) have died since the Campaign to Save Mental Health Services in Norfolk and Suffolk was formed. Our campaigners want the scale of the loss in our community to be recognised and for those who
Press Release The Campaign to Save Mental Health Services in Norfolk and Suffolk welcome’s the decision by the CQC to give NSFT an overall quality rating of inadequate. Patients, service users, NSFT staff, family members and carers welcomes the decision by the CQC to give an overall trust quality rating of inadequate. We are pleased that the CQC has recognised
Something Must Change: Our press release about terrible CQC report. Read More »
We are frustrated that NSFT CEO Stuart Richardson revealed a cut in the number of beds planned for the £45m Hellesdon hospital revamp. Bed shortages have been a constant sore since the disastrous radical redesign drastically cut the number of beds at NSFT in 2014. Having looked at this EDP article, https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/health/images-of-hellesdon-hospital-revamp-unveiled-8784054 ,we are asking:
Campaigners Slam Bed Plans for Failing Mental Health Trust Read More »
The CQC have been inspecting NSFT and some of our members were able to meet with the Inspection Manager to express their concerns. It was decided by the wider membership to follow up this meeting with a written request, in the form of an open letter, for urgent action. The concerns expressed in this letter
A call for urgent action: Open letter to CQC and NHSE & I about NSFT Read More »
The appointment of a new CEO at NSFT has disheartened our members. ‘We are doomed” said one message to us. Our campaign has been highlighting unsafe mental health services at NSFT for nearly eight years. Fundamentally, things got into this mess, and have gone from bad to worse, because of poor leadership. You don’t have
From Nowhere to Nowhere: A hopeless CEO situation Read More »
(written with permission of Peggy Copeman’s family) The CCTV footage of Peggy Copeman being wheeled down the hospital corridor as she left Cygnet hospital can be viewed in this article https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/health/cctv-shows-peggy-copeman-ahead-of-transfer-8089988 Peggy is slumped in her wheelchair, her belongings in a bin liner. When Premier Rescue Ambulance Service staff asked about Peggy’s unresponsiveness a member
Peggy Copeman: A much loved Norfolk woman who died because of the beds crisis at NSFT Read More »
It is with regret that we have to report that the campaign’s relationship with the new CEO of NSFT looks like it’s breaking down. Before we have even met him. This is a first for us. All the previous CEOs at least managed some tokenistic meetings with our representatives . We genuinely wanted to give
Here we go again… New CEO at NSFT gets off to a poor start with campaigners. Read More »
On 30th April 2021, we said goodbye to our friend and founder member of our campaign, Terry O’Shea. The funeral service was beautiful and a fitting farewell. Due to Covid restrictions, 30 people attended and the service was live-streamed and nearly 200 people viewed it. We already knew Terry could ‘pull a crowd’ because his
Tribute to Terry O’Shea – our friend and founder member Read More »
Dear supporter of the Campaign for Mental Health Services in North Norfolk,It has been brought to our attention that a Parliamentary Inquiry into the long-term funding of adult social care is under way, and that they want responses by Thursday 15th April. This inquiry has not been given any publicity, meaning that there is now a very
Submissions needed for Parliamentary Inquiry into adult social care funding Read More »
The Norfolk and Suffolk Mental Health Crisis campaign have been expressing concerns about the leadership at NSFT for years. Five years of being in special measures – two of these under the leadership team from ELFT (a.k.a. the A Team) who were drafted in to ‘urgently’ sort out the problems at NSFT. Instead of modelling
Here is the second PFD (Prevention of Future Death) report, in our series of 30 that have been issued by Coroners, relating to NSFT since 2012. We are publishing these one at a time to honour each person who has died. A Freedom of Information request means that we have NSFT’s PFDs and the trust’s
NSFT PFD – Report 2: Sebastian Davies 2012 Read More »
Our Campaign has analysed the Prevention of Future Death (PFD) reports, issued by coroners, that relate to NSFT since the disastrous ‘radical redesign’ in 2012. A Freedom of Information request means that we have NSFT’s responses to the PFDs. We have been looking for the patterns and themes that characterise the issues at NSFT. The
NSFT PFD – Report 1: Matthew Dunham 2012 Read More »
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 »
