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Lost Lives NSFT: Campaigners remember the people who have died because of failings in mental health services in Norfolk and Suffolk
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 […]
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Something Must Change: Our press release about terrible CQC report.
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 […]
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In Loving Memory of Terry O’Shea
A year ago, one of the Campaign’s founder members, Terry O’Shea, died from cancer. His lovely wife and children are foremost in our minds today. The campaign members feel grateful […]
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Campaigners Slam Bed Plans for Failing Mental Health Trust
The campaign to save mental health in Norfolk and Suffolk is calling for the resignation of the NSFT CEO Stuart Richardson after he revealed a cut in the number of […]
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A call for urgent action: Open letter to CQC and NHSE & I about NSFT
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 […]
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From Nowhere to Nowhere: A hopeless CEO situation
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 […]
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Peggy Copeman: A much loved Norfolk woman who died because of the beds crisis at NSFT
(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 […]
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Here we go again… New CEO at NSFT gets off to a poor start with campaigners.
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. […]
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Are you ‘practically perfect in every way’? Apply now for the post of CEO at NSFT (salary c175k)
NSFT has been in ‘special measures’ for 6 years. Since 2012 there have been 8 CEOs including (temporary CEOs). There have been hundreds of deaths and more than 30 Prevention […]
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Tribute to Terry O’Shea – our friend and founder member
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 […]
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Submissions needed for Parliamentary Inquiry into adult social care funding
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 […]
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Why we are worried about who will be next CEO of NSFT. Includes a template letter for concerned people to use.
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 […]
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NSFT PFD – Report 2: Sebastian Davies 2012
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 […]
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Faking it … when your qualifications are as real as your mate Big Bird.
Were we surprised by the news today that Mason ‘Champagne Charlie’ Fitzgerald has been caught out for having fake qualifications? Not really. We already knew he did not have the […]
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NSFT PFD – Report 1: Matthew Dunham 2012
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 […]
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He Died Waiting: The story of Tim – who was one of hundreds of deaths at NSFT
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. […]
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Dodgy Dan Dalton desperately tries to force doctors to take the blame for the NSFT beds crisis and to delay or prevent admissions
On Friday of last week, the Chief Medical Officer of Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT), dodgy Dan Dalton, sent out this email: Why is dodgy Dan Dalton demanding […]
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BBC News: Covid-19: Patient gets virus after 240-mile hospital move
Nikki Fox, Health Correspondent of the BBC, reports: A woman said she was “very angry” after her elderly mother caught Covid-19 following a move to a hospital hundreds of miles […]
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EDP: SPECIAL REPORT: ‘Failed and forgotten’ – are a generation of our children being let down?
In a Special Report for the Eastern Daily Press, Jessica Frank-Keyes writes: A generation of Norfolk’s children are at risk of being “failed” and “forgotten” as issues with already struggling […]
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Beds Crisis: How NSFT managers have designed bureaucratic obstacles to prevent or delay mental health admissions
It has long been clear that Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) tries to manipulate its inappropriate out of area placement (OAP) bed statistics when the Care Quality Commission […]
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