Amanda Hedley
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Press Release: Campaign statement on the delays to the cuts café
A spokesperson from the Campaign to Save Mental Health Services in Norfolk and Suffolk said: “People in crisis need real services, not being patronised with cups of tea and endless […]
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EDP: Mental health crisis hub delayed by a year as patients continue to be sent hundreds of miles for treatment
Geraldine Scott of the Eastern Daily Press reports: A crisis hub pegged to help stem the number of mental health patients sent miles away due to a lack of beds […]
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Beds not Tea: Cuts Café Consultation: Last chance to respond
The bureaucrats who commission NHS mental health services in Norfolk have decided to run their consultation into the proposed cuts café over the Christmas and New Year holiday period, thus […]
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Radical Redesign Heroes: Where are the TSSers now? Part 1: Hadrian Ball, Medical Director, NSFT
Hadrian Ball was the Medical Director and highest-paid member of the Board of Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) throughout the Trust Service Strategy (TSS), better known as the ‘radical […]
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RSA Norwich: The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions
Terry Skyrme reflects on the recent RSA mental health event in Norwich: “Campaign supporters held a protest outside an event organized by the RSA at St Michael’s church in Norwich. […]
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The Norwich Radical: The Elephant in the Room: Norfolk’s Mental Health Crisis
Hannah Rose reports in The Norwich Radical from the recent RSA event: Instead, I was perturbed by the oddly formal sense of occasion — cheese and wine were offered on arrival […]
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NSFT – A Warning from History: Unexpected deaths: 2013 vs 2016: Has anything changed?
Compare what Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) claimed in 2013 with what NSFT claims in 2016. What has changed except that NSFT suffered 45 unexpected deaths in the […]
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EDP: Revealed: The six figure payouts for staff leaving the Norfolk and Suffolk mental health trust
David Powles of the Eastern Daily Press and Andrew Hirst of the East Anglian Daily Times report: Two consultants involved in a “strategic reorganisation” which saw hundreds of jobs axed […]
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Survey: Mind Mental Health Support Line pilot
The five CCGs in Norfolk are examining whether to continue funding the Mind Mental Health Support Line pilot. What are you experiences of using the service? There are lots of ways […]
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Mind the Gap: Mental health charity Mind excludes election candidate, mental health service user and disability campaigner, Mick Hardy, from its mental health election panel
We’ve just receives this shocking press release from Mick Hardy, prospective parliamentary candidate in Norwich North for the Dandy Party and a founder member of the Campaign to Save Mental […]
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