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Audio: BBC Radio Norfolk: Matthew Gudgin interviews NSFT interim CEO Julie Cave and a campaigner about the closure of yet another 36 beds
Matthew Gudgin of the BBC interviews a spokesperson for our campaign and the interim Chief Executive of Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT), Julie Cave, about the closure of […]
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BBC News: Norfolk and Suffolk mental health beds closures ‘shocking’
The BBC reports: Thirty-six mental health beds are being closed by Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust, eight of them permanently. Further details have emerged after it was revealed a […]
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EADT: ‘This is a humanitarian disaster’ – Mental health trust closes 36 beds
Gemma Mitchell of the East Anglian Daily Times reports: The region’s beleaguered mental health trust has had to shut 36 beds since autumn, it has been revealed. Beds have closed […]
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Campaign Cartoon: NHS Improvement is up to its neck in the appointment of Antek Lejk at NSFT
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EDP: New mental health boss appointment branded ‘disastrous’ by campaigners
Geraldine Scott of the Eastern Daily Press reports: The appointment of a new mental health boss has been branded “disastrous” by campaigners due to the new chief’s background in NHS […]
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EDP Exclusive: Richard Branson’s controversial private health company Virgin Care could take over children’s mental health care in Norfolk
Geraldine Scott of the Eastern Daily Press reports: Children’s mental health services in Norfolk could be taken over by Sir Richard Branson’s controversial company Virgin Care, it can be revealed. […]
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BBC News: Richard Handley: ‘Gross failures’ in constipation death
BBC News reports: A “missed opportunity” for potentially life-saving treatment contributed to the death of a man from constipation complications, an inquest has found. Richard Handley, 33, who had Down’s […]
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Norwich Evening News: Man “frustrated” at mental health delays took his own life after NHS 111 hung up on him
Dominic Gilbert of the Norwich Evening News reports: A 32-year-old with Asperger’s and emotionally unstable personality disorder took his own life when NHS 111 call handlers hung up on him […]
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EDP: Tranquilisation changes came too little too late for Norwich man, says sister
Geraldine Scott of the Eastern Daily Press reports: “The sister of a mentally ill man who died after being tranquillised in hospital has slammed the region’s mental health trust for […]
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EDP: Ex-staff members speak out over ‘rotten foundations’ of mental health trust
Geraldine Scott of the Eastern Daily Press reports: Healthcare professionals who used to work at the region’s mental health trust have slammed “rotten foundations” stemming from a radical redesign six […]
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EDP Data shows mental health trust has cut doctors and nurses – but chief disputes the figures
Geraldine Scott of the Eastern Daily Press reports: New data has revealed the number of doctors at the region’s mental health trust has shrunk over the last five years – […]
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Campaign statement on NHS Digital payroll data showing 52.7 increase in managers as more than twenty per cent of doctor and qualified nurses cut at NSFT over past five years
A spokesperson for the Campaign to Save Mental Health Services in Norfolk and Suffolk said: “Since 2013, we have repeatedly warned about the increasing number of managers employed at NSFT […]
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EDP: OPINION: Coroners are too quick to shy away from saying a death was a suicide – it is time for a change
Geraldine Scott of the Eastern Daily Press writes: Across Europe, one person takes their own life every two hours. And in Norfolk we have significantly higher rates of suicide than […]
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EDP: Mother of Norwich man who died of heroin overdose blames institutional failings of mental health trust
Geraldine Scott of the Eastern Daily Press reports: The family of a man who died of a heroin overdose at his Norwich flat blamed “institutional failings of the mental health […]
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Greed: EADT: ‘Inadequate’ mental health trust NSFT slammed for directors’ £10,000 pay rises
Gemma Mitchell of the Eastern Anglian Daily Times has one of the most shocking exclusives we have ever read about the Board of Shame of Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation […]
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The ‘Car Crash’ Interviews: £87,000 ‘pay out’ for Michael Scott and CQC rates NSFT Board ‘inadequate’
Excerpts from the BBC interviews with the Chair of Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT), Gary Page and the new interim Chief Executive, Julie Cave. According to Julie Cave, […]
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BBC News: Mundesley Hospital closes after mental health trust withdraws patients
BBC News reports: A private hospital rated as inadequate has closed down after a mental health trust withdrew all its patients, citing safety concerns. Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust […]
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EDP: Mundesley Hospital’s shock closure following damning care quality report
Only the actions of our mental health campaign ensured Mundesley Hospital was promptly inspected by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) and Norfolk’s Clinical […]
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Video: BBC National News at Six: NSFT rated Inadequate and placed into Special Measures for Second Time
BBC Health Correspondent, Sophie Hutchinson, of the BBC national News at Six, reports on Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) becoming the mental health trust to be placed into […]
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