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EDP: Campaign to secure Wicklewood mental health unit’s long-term future is relaunched

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Lauren Cope of the EDP reports: A campaign to secure the long-term future of a women’s mental health unit, which last year battled closure, has been relaunched. Now, uncertainty over whether the CCGs will supply the four beds for another year means the Save Ashcroft campaign group has organised a second public meeting to bring […]

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An open letter to NSFT, its Board of Governors and the CCGs: Why the Ashcroft contract should be ongoing

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An open letter to NSFT, its Board of Governors and the CCGs Why the Ashcroft contract should be ongoing The Bed Crisis Over the last two years, there has been a serious shortage of acute inpatient provision. The number of patients placed out of area, in expensive private hospitals, has fluctuated constantly from a low

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Save Ashcroft: Public Meeting on Thursday 8th January 7.30-9.30pm at the Vauxhall Centre, Norwich NR2 2SA

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You can download a pdf of the poster to distribute, print and display by clicking on the image below. Please come along and stop the cuts to this unique and vital component of Norfolk’s mental health infrastructure for women. There is a location map at the bottom of this page.

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EDP: Women’s mental health unit near Wymondham is saved from closure – but number of beds will be reduced

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Simply shocking: But in a separate blow, six beds which had been commissioned by Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust on a pilot scheme will not be funded next year. It isn’t as though Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) is desperately short of beds and transporting people around the country on a Map

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EDP: Update: More than 2,900 people sign online petition to save the Ashcroft residential home

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Wonderful coverage and interviews from Sam Russell of the EDP: Carol Brady, from Norwich, stayed in the care home for six months in 2007, and has used it since for respite care. “Without Ashcroft I probably wouldn’t be here today,” she said. “The staff are brilliant and understanding of what I’m going through. “They have

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Julian Support: Ashcroft Update

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It appears that the magnificent and spontaneous campaign, led by service users, to stop the closure of Ashcroft has caused Norfolk County Council to reconsider the reduction in funding which forced Julian Support to announce Ashcroft’s closure. Ashcroft delivers highly professional care, often in complex cases. It is hard to see what could replace Ashcroft

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BBC News: Ashcroft Centre anti-closure petition signed by thousands

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More than 2,300 people have signed a petition calling for a women’s mental health unit to be saved from closure. The Ashcroft Centre in Wicklewood, near Wymondham, Norfolk, could shut in March as the county council is not renewing its contract for beds. Ms Coker, chief executive of Julian Support, said: “I understand Mr Bodmer

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Petition: Save Ashcroft

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Click the image below to visit the 38 Degrees website and sign the petition:

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Ashcroft: A vital mental health service in Norfolk is due to close as a result of insufficient funding

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Julian Support has issued the following powerful press release: “Ashcroft is a CQC registered Residential Care Service for women in the village of Wicklewood, near the market town of Wymondham in Norfolk. It was established in 1986 to support women with severe and enduring mental health needs. Julian Support has been providing the service since

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BBC News: Norfolk budget cut threatens women’s mental health unit

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“The county council would not accept a weekly rate of £650 per person at the centre and said it would only pay £593. Ashcroft Centre trustees said staff numbers would have to be cut to unsafe levels if this rate was accepted. Ben Curran, head of operations at Julian Support which runs the Ashcroft Centre,

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