Something Must Change: Our press release about terrible CQC report.

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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 […]

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Campaigners Slam Bed Plans for Failing Mental Health Trust

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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:

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Peggy Copeman: A much loved Norfolk woman who died because of the beds crisis at NSFT

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(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

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Submissions needed for Parliamentary Inquiry into adult social care funding

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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

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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.

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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

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He Died Waiting: The story of Tim – who was one of hundreds of deaths at NSFT

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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,

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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

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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

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BBC News: Covid-19: Patient gets virus after 240-mile hospital move

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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

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EDP: SPECIAL REPORT: ‘Failed and forgotten’ – are a generation of our children being let down?

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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

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Beds Crisis: How NSFT managers have designed bureaucratic obstacles to prevent or delay mental health admissions

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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

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EDP: Mental health trust blasted for ‘shocking’ fresh rise in out of area placements

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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

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CAMHS Crisis: What has been happening to waiting lists for children and young people at NSFT?

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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

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Video: BBC Look East: NSFT sends dishonest discharge letters to more than 300 children and young people using Covid-19 as an excuse

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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

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CAMHS Crisis: The shameful discharge letters sent to more than 300 young people abusing the Covid-19 epidemic

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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

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CAMHS Crisis: In full: Appalling CQC report into NSFT’s CFYP Youth Services at 80 St Stephen’s

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We’ve never read a Care Quality Commission(CQC) inspection report as bad as this. CQC finds that the management of Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust’s (NSFT) mental health services for Children, Families and Young People (CFYP) couldn’t run a bath. Toxic trust NSFT’s response was to shamefully abuse the Covid-19 epidemic as an excuse to

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