Andy McNicoll
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Research: Specialist mental health services in England in 2014: overview of funding, access and levels of care
Specialist mental health services in England in 2014: overview of funding, access and levels of care Mary Docherty and Graham Thornicroft International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2015 9:34 DOI: 10.1186/s13033-015-0023-9 © Docherty and Thornicroft. 2015 Abstract […]
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Community Care: Mental health trust funding down 8% from 2010 despite coalition’s drive for parity of esteem
Norman Lamb called our campaign ‘mental health extremists‘ for simply pointing out that Norman Lamb claims to be a mental health champion whilst cutting mental health funding and services. Now […]
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Community Care: Vulnerable man was failed by two NHS trusts days before he died, finds watchdog
Andy McNicoll reports: A man who had expressed suicidal thoughts was failed by two NHS trusts in the days before he was found dead in a river, an investigation by […]
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Community Care: Mental health trust should face special measures over ‘inadequate’ safety and leadership, says CQC
We were all delighted to meet Andy McNicoll, deservedly Mind Mental Health Journalist of the Year, at our campaign meeting yesterday. Ethical investigative journalism is a critical component in our […]
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Guardian: NHS mental health care ‘pushed to breaking point by lack of beds’
The lack of acute beds available to mental health patients has left the system at breaking point, the Royal College of Psychiatrists has said. Illustrating the scale of the problem, […]
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Community Care: Why I’m retiring from social work to fight the cuts damaging our service’
Click the image below to read Terry Skyrme’s letter in Community Care, explaining why he has decided to retire from the mental health frontline to fight the damaging cuts to […]
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Community Care: How mental health teams that are key to crisis prevention have been cut back
Andy McNicoll is an excellent investigative journalist. McNicoll’s latest article at Community Care demonstrates Norman Lamb’s duplicity and hollow words, outlining the cuts to crisis prevention as funding has been slashed […]
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BBC Video: Mental health services in England ‘a car crash’
Click the image below to watch Michael Buchanan’s report and interview with Professor Sue Bailey, President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists:
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BBC: Mental health services ‘a car crash’
Sue Bailey speaks the truth: Mental health services in England are “a car crash” and the health secretary is not taking the problems seriously, according to the outgoing president of […]
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BBC Radio 4 Today: Michael Buchanan reports on the beds crisis and Norman Lamb blames everyone except himself
We’re proud to have helped Michael Buchanan of the BBC and Andy McNicoll of Community Care in their excellent work exposing the scandalous bed crisis on the national stage. Even […]
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Community Care: Mental health staff consider industrial action over ‘serious safety concerns’ with crisis care
“Union members at the mental health trust serving care minister Norman Lamb’s north Norfolk constituency could be balloted on taking industrial action in protest at ‘serious safety concerns’ with services. […]
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Audio: BBC Radio 4 World at One on the Mental Health Crisis at Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT)
http://norfolksuffolkmentalhealthcrisis.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/BBC-Radio-4-World-at-One-4-April-2014-Crisis-at-NSFT.mp3 Isn’t it incredible that NHS England couldn’t find anybody to talk on national radio about the crisis in mental health?
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Response from North Norfolk CCG to AMHP letter highlighting bed crisis at NSFT
See the letter below which states that North Norfolk CCG will not accept the closure of any more acute adult beds, including the hostels, until people placed out of county […]
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3rd Day of Lent: Going without… dedicated Assertive Outreach (AO) teams
Dr Geraldine Strathdee, NHS England’s national clinical director for mental health recently told Community Care: “I know there are a number [of Trusts] saying ‘we won’t have a crisis/home treatment […]
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Community Care: Social workers alert Lamb to ‘unsafe and illegal’ mental health crisis care in his constituency
Read the full story written by the excellent Andy McNicoll by clicking on the image below:
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