Survey: How easy is it to see a community consultant psychiatrist at Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust?

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EADT: Damning report finds Suffolk failing some children with special education needs leaving families ‘frustrated and confused’

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Andrew Hirst of the East Anglian Daily Times reports: Families have had to “fight every step of the way” to get help for the children with the greatest needs in Suffolk. Waiting times for mental health services are said to have started to reduce demonstrating “necessary progress in an area that still requires significant further

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CAMHS Crisis: in accordance with the Children Act 2004 (Joint Area Reviews) Regulations 2015, Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Education, Children’s Services and Skills (HMCI) has determined that a written statement of action is required because of significant weaknesses

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Many mental health services for children and young people (CAMHS) and for people with learning disabilities in Suffolk are provided by Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT). NSFT is the dominant provider of mental health services in Suffolk. NSFT has repeatedly claimed all is well in Suffolk and that the only problems are in

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EDP: Mother of Norwich patient says son with schizophrenia could have been saved and blasts mental health services

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Tom Bristow of the Eastern Daily Press reports: The last time Sheila Preston saw her son alive was Christmas 2014. Almost two years later, two police officers knocked on her door at 1.30am at her home in Mendham on the Norfolk-Suffolk border. They had come to tell her Leo had been found dead in his

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EDP Front Page: Mental health patient kept in Norfolk police cell for three days

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Tom Bristow of the Eastern Daily Press reports: A mental health patient was kept in a police cell for three days in King’s Lynn because no bed could be found for him. A second person needing mental health treatment was detained at Aylsham police station for 36 hours as the region’s mental health service struggled

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Video: BBC iPlayer: Panorama: Revealed: Britain’s Mental Health Crisis

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One month after prime minister Theresa May promised to ‘transform the way we deal with mental health problems right across society’, reporter Sophie Hutchinson investigates the troubled state of NHS mental health services. She hears the concerns of staff and patients at the first mental health trust in England to be placed in special measures,

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No More Daves: EADT: David Martin’s inquest begins in Ipswich – amid reports from BBC Panorama of 50% increase in ‘unexpected’ mental health deaths

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Andrew Hirst of the East Anglian Daily Times reports: The family of an mentally-ill man who died amid filth and squalor in Ipswich are hoping for answers at this week’s long-awaited inquest. David Martin was discovered dead in his Ipswich flat on September 11, 2014 – four days after his 52nd birthday. Pneumonia was listed

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EDP: Unexpected deaths could reach new heights in mental health care

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Nicholas Carding of the Eastern Daily Press reports: The tragic saga of patients dying unexpectedly at the region’s mental health trust continues after it emerged the number of deaths could reach new heights this year. Plumb new depths, more like. Latest statistics from Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) show 140 patients suffered “unexpected

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Radical Redesign Heroes: Where are the TSSers now? Part 3: Maggie Wheeler, Chair, NSFT

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Because of her then status in the Norwich Labour Party, and the frequent use of politically-correct buzzwords like ‘recovery’ and ‘ImROC’, many people trusted Maggie Wheeler and her Board when it promised ‘new services will be as effective as they are now, if not better’ as a result of the Trust Service Strategy (TSS) at Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT), better

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EDP: Bed shortage means dozens of mental health patients are still being sent miles from Norfolk and Suffolk for treatment – three years after pledge

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Nicholas Carding of the Eastern Daily Press reports: The region’s mental health trust is set to spend nearly £3m more than budgeted on treating patients at other facilities this year, this newspaper can reveal. In April just 26 days were spent by NSFT patients at hospitals outside Norfolk and Suffolk, but by the end of

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Eventbrite: Revealed: Britain’s Mental Health Crisis on 6th February 2017 at 8.30 p.m.

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BBC Panorama: Revealed: Britain’s Mental Health Crisis: Monday 6th February 2017 at 8.30 p.m. on BBC One

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According to the BBC Panorama website: One month after prime minister Theresa May promised to ‘transform the way we deal with mental health problems right across society’, reporter Sophie Hutchinson investigates the troubled state of NHS mental health services. She hears the concerns of staff and patients at the first mental health trust in England

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EADT: Bury St Edmunds woman who feels abandoned by mental health service in court again

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Colin Adwent of the East Anglian Daily Times reports: A Suffolk MP and the county’s Police and Crime Commissioner have pledged to do all they can to help a troubled young woman who feels abandoned by the mental health service. The troubled woman’s latest offences occurred just three days after she appeared before the same

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The Thick of: NSFT Comms advertises another £105,060 of jobs

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Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) used to have a handful of people in its Communications department before the disastrous ‘radical redesign’. However, as NSFT has cut mental health services and made front line staff redundant, its Comms department has grown and grown. We’ve been tipped off by a supporter about another £105,060 per year of Comms recruitment by NSFT on

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EDP: Norfolk and Suffolk mental health trust loses cash and UEA medical students amid training concerns

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Tom Bristow of the Eastern Daily Press reports: The region’s mental health trust has been stripped of some medical students and funding amid concerns about the quality of its training. The Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust (NSFT) was being paid by Health Education England (HEE) to train 47 medical students from the University of East

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Deaths Crisis: HSE: Hospital fined after safety failings led to dementia patient’s death

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Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust has been fined £366,000 after the death of a patient on a specialist dementia ward. Norwich Crown Court heard how Mrs Joan Darnell, age 78, had been admitted as a patient to the Julian Hospital, on 28 September 2014 on the Blicking Ward, a specialist ward for patients suffering

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EDP: Norfolk and Suffolk NHS trust fined £366k after 78-year-old patient drowned in hospital bath

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Christine Cunningham of the Eastern Daily Press reports: A Norfolk and Suffolk NHS trust has been fined £366,000 for health and safety failings after a 78-year-old patient was found drowned in a bath on a hospital ward. Joan Darnell, who had dementia and bipolar disorder, had been taken from her home in Field Grange, Lowestoft,

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EDP: Patients rate Norfolk and Suffolk mental health trust as one of worst in country

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Tom Bristow of the Eastern Daily Press reports: The region’s mental health service has been named as one of the worst performing in the country in a survey of patients. Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust, which was brought out of “special measures” in October, was rated particularly badly for supporting people with mental health difficulties

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Deaths Crisis: North Norfolk News: Gresham’s School sixthformer Rebecca Haley had watched programme featuring depression and suicide before taking her own life

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Geraldine Scott of Norfolk Norfolk News reports: Rebecca Haley, known to friends as Becca, died on April 30 at the boarding school in Cromer Road, Holt. Rebecca was one of a staggering twenty Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) patients to die unexpected deaths in April 2016. In the first full year of NSFT’s

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