North Norfolk Branch Meeting: Experiences of NSFT for CQC inspection: 7 p.m. Tuesday 11th July, Cromer Football Club Clubhouse, Cabbell Park, Mill Rd, Cromer NR27 0BQ

We have been asked by the regulator of Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT), Care Quality Commission (CQC), to submit feedback before its forthcoming inspection in September. The relevant part of its letter to us is summarised below: We would like to receive information you hold relevant to the quality and safety of services

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Chronology of a scandal: Antek Lejk’s role in the out-of-hours deaths scandal at NHS Cornwall

The Chair of Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT), Gary Page, has been claiming that the role of Antek Lejk in the out-of-hours scandal at NHS Cornwall was peripheral. However, we have spoken to clinicians and campaigners in Cornwall who have told us that Antek Lejk was central and a driving force of what

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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. The private company, which provides more than £1bn-worth of NHS contracts across the country, is believed to be eyeing a move into Norfolk – prompting

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No Fly-Tipping: Dumping of Failed Management Waste on other parts of the NHS should be Illegal

“The board had failed to address all the serious concerns that had been reported to them since 2014. The breaches of regulation identified at our previous inspections had not been resolved. The board did not ensure that the services provided by the trust were safe. They had not taken action to ensure that unsafe environments

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Healthwatch Norfolk: Question Time: Sustainability and Transformation Plan (STP) Public Meeting 17/07/17

UPDATE: We’ll be protesting about the terrible state of mental health services in Norfolk from 5 p.m. outside the venue before going in at 6 p.m. Join us! Healthwatch Norfolk is supposed to be the ‘consumer champion for health and social care’. Sadly, despite funding of £600,000 per year from Norfolk County Council, Healthwatch Norfolk

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Petition: Major improvements to NSFT Suffolk and Norfolk mental health services needed now!

Emily Luccarini has started a petition demanding improvements to mental health services in Norfolk and Suffolk delivered by Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT). Click on the image below to sign the petition and add your own comments. Thanks Emily!  

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General Election 2017: Norfolk NHS Action Group: NHS Hustings: Tuesday 30th May, 7 p.m., Auditorium, The Forum, Norwich

The general election 2017 NHS hustings begin at 7 p.m. on Tuesday 30th May 2017 in the Auditorium at The Forum, Millennium Plain, Norwich NR2 1TF. The hustings will last about two hours. The panel includes: Chris Jones, Labour Party candidate for Norwich North Hugh Lanham, Liberal Democrat candidate for Norwich North Catherine Rowett, Green

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

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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Revolving Doors: EDP: ‘It really is a disgrace’ – Norfolk community health bosses anger union with staff wage cuts

Tom Bristow of the Eastern Daily Press reports: Norfolk Community Health and Care Trust (NCH&C) looks after thousands of patients a day through nurses and therapists visiting people in their homes, as well as in community hospitals, including Norwich Community Hospital on Bowthorpe Road. But it has angered Unison by increasing total board wages and

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Campaign speaking at Keep Our NHS Public meeting on Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs): Friday 11th November, Blackfriars Hall, Norwich, NR3 1AU at 6.30 p.m. All welcome.

Members of our campaign will be speaking at the Keep Our NHS Public meeting on Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs) on Friday 11th November at Blackfriars Hall, Norwich, NR3 1AU  6.30 – 8.30 p.m. Why not come along and listen? We are non-party political. We will happily to accept invitations from all mainstream political parties

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Evening News: Anger over decision to close ‘excellent’ 24-bed ward in Norwich

Nicholas Carding of the Norwich Evening News reports on the closure of yet another 24 beds for the elderly on the Julian Hospital site: A 24-bed ward which helps a hospital discharge patients faster will close in three weeks – less than two years after opening. So much for stopping bed blocking. The Henderson Unit,

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Deaths Crisis: INQUEST challenges suitability of supported housing in care provision to young adults with serious, longstanding mental illness

The inquest into the ‘unexpected death’ of Daniel Chapman under the care of Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) started on Monday 19th September before the Suffolk coroner, Peter Dean, at Bury St Edmunds. The family is represented by Claire Mawer at 15 New Bridge Street and INQUEST Lawyer’s Group member Harriet Wistrich of Birnberg

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Gallery: March for Mental Health, York

Today, members of the Campaign to Save Mental Health Services in Norfolk and Suffolk joined local people from York to protest against the closure of Bootham Park Hospital with only five days notice. Imagine the chaos if Hellesdon Hospital was closed in less than a week. Local campaigners in York believe that Jeremy Hunt’s plan

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Public Meeting: We are among speakers at Blackfriars Hall, Norwich NR3 1AU at 7 p.m. on Friday 11th December

We are speaking about the mental health crisis at the public meeting at Blackfriars Hall, Norwich NR3 1AU at 7 p.m. on Friday 11th December. Come along and support us. Other speakers include influential tax campaigner Richard Murphy, Syriza member and UEA academic Marina Prentoulis, Green Group Leader Richard Bearman, Labour and Unison activist Jo

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EDP: As mental health campaign launched, poignant video shows sufferer urging others to speak out a few months before she died

In another powerful piece of journalism, David Powles, Investigations Editor of the EDP, writes: At 26 years old, Jacqueline Boulton had so much to live for. Talented, caring, funny, intelligent – and so very loved by her family and friends. But her infectious smile masked the chronic depression which she suffered for so many years

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Campaign research shows mental health trusts nationwide face impossible 8% cut in budgets

Research by the Campaign to Save Mental Health Services in Norfolk & Suffolk, using a combination of the latest regulatory filings with Monitor and Freedom of Information (FOI) requests, shows that NHS mental health trusts face a real terms cut in their income of eight per cent in real terms over the next four years.

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