Within the 25 July 2024 upcoming board meeting papers, NSFT have released their learning from deaths report following on from the Grant Thornton review and the Forever Gone report. Due to a majority of deaths in the report being marked as unknown circumstances and unexpected deaths, this sparked outrage of the public, carers and service […]
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On the 4th of May, The Observer covered a story, which included details about the son of a campaign member who was lost due to failings of the service. This article explains the campaigner’s report into deaths at the trust and also looks in more detail about the radical redesign which is often expressed as
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Following on from some of the Campaign members meeting MPs and Minister Maria Caulfield at Portcullis house, there have been some movements. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-68619504 – explains the Minister Maria Caulfield’s reaction after the meeting. Even though NSFT keeps claiming it is on a journey of improvement, by April, none of the ministers nor governors nor campaigners
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/nhs-mental-health-deaths-leak-b2526944.html A whistleblower has leaked a report suggesting that there have been around 15,000 deaths within a year in mental health community care. This figure is staggering and would not have been known about without the leak. After national guidance has started to try and address unsafe practices and deaths within an inpatient setting, families
Christopher Sidle was a service user under the Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) when he sadly lost his life, despite warnings from family and other medical professionals involved in his care. The Guardian article explained: “A series of failings by a troubled NHS mental health trust contributed to the death of a former government climate
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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On 12 March 2024, campaign members have been at Portcullis House to meet with MP’s of Norfolk and Suffolk as well as Maria Caulfield, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Mental Health since October 2022, previously serving as Minister of State for Health between July and September 2022. This meeting was not only to give
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The parents of Ellie Woolnough feature in this Guardian article, talking of their daughter Ellie’s hope, how the trust were racing to discharge her and reluctant to give the correct care, concerns also shared by a local GP and campaigners. ‘It might have been different’: how Norfolk and Suffolk NHS foundation trust is failing mental
Mrs Maggie Harvey, 67, sadly died in her home whilst experiencing a mental health crisis. Mrs Harvey had moved from Suffolk to Norfolk, therefore moving from the Bury St Edmunds community mental health team in Suffolk and was reluctant to accept care from the Norwich team. The inquest uncovered her move caused miscommunication, confusion and
One of the country’s worst mental health trusts is in the news again yesterday after calls from bereaved families grow. There is a push continuing for a public inquiry into unexpected deaths, and pleas for change due to gaps in crisis care and impossible searches for help. Emma Woolfenden, the mother of Kai Mogg, 18,
Reports have been covered by ITV Anglia of the inquests into the deaths of family, Bartlomiej Kuczynski, 45, Kanticha Sukpengpanao, 36, Jasmin Kuczynska, 12, and Natasha Kuczynska, 8. Samantha Goward, the Norfolk area Coroner was holding back tears, reaching for tissues and visibly crying within the court. These deaths prompted the stalling of the RightCareRightPerson
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Rebecca McLellan, 24, struggled to receive the care she needed at Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust amid ‘the biggest deaths crisis’ in NHS history. The article by Mario Ledwith writes that ‘on the last occasion Rebecca McLellan’s close relatives saw her alive, they were struck by just how well she was — engaging, laughing
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John Harris recently spoke to the bereaved families in regards to what they call “the largest deaths crisis in the history of the NHS”. His opinion piece in The Guardian explains the carousel of management and the board, the lack of involvement with regulators and the poor leadership that is still to admit responsibility and
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
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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,
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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
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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
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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.
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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
