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 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 »
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 the involvement of the trust’s consultant psychiatrists with such urgency, with a same day change in admission policy? Dodgy Dan’s email tell us: We need
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 away. Kay Cantell said her mother Kathleen, 73, was transferred from Norfolk to Darlington in September. “I was very angry to think that she’s gone
BBC News: Covid-19: Patient gets virus after 240-mile hospital move Read More »
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 support services are worsened by the impact of the coronavirus lockdown. Experts fear the scale of the “fallout from the Covid-19 crisis” for young people
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 (CQC) comes to inspect. As the graph below shows, out of area bed usage was again artificially reduced in the run-up to the latest full
Jessica Frank-Keyes of the Eastern Daily Press reports: The region’s mental health trust has been criticised for a “shocking” lack of beds as data revealed a fresh rise in patients being sent out of the area for treatment. Figures published by the region’s mental health trust – branded the worst in England – uncovered yet
EDP: Mental health trust blasted for ‘shocking’ fresh rise in out of area placements Read More »
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) sent dishonest letters to hundreds of children and young people on waiting lists. NSFT claims that the dishonest discharge letters were a ‘mistake’ but refused to answer the BBC’s reasonable questions about what happened and what it is doing about put things right. We don’t even know what
This BBC Look East report by Health Correspondent Nikki Fox exposes abuse of the Covid-19 epidemic by Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) as a shameful excuse to send dishonest discharge letters to more than 300 young people on waiting lists at NSFT’s Children, Families and Young People (CFYP) mental health services to cover-up
These shameful letters sent by Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) abused the Covid-19 epidemic as an excuse to discharge 300+ children and young people from waiting lists at the Youth Service of Children, Families and Young People’s mental health services (CFYP) to cover-up an appalling Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection report, lack of
