The Guardian: Ministers urged to act over Norfolk and Suffolk mental health trust

Matthew Weaver of The Guardian reports: The health secretary, Matt Hancock, is facing mounting calls to intervene in England’s worst performing mental health trust after it was rated inadequate for a third time. There have been more than 250 extra deaths in Norfolk and Suffolk over the past five years as a result of the […]

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Three Days of Action: Hat-trick of failure: Three strikes and you’re out!

We expect Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) to receive yet another atrocious inspection report from the Care Quality Commission (CQC) on Wednesday 28th November. We have planned a week of action across Norfolk and Suffolk. Wednesday 28th November: Protest against the Board of NSFT outside the main (top entrance) to Hellesdon Hospital, Drayton

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Invitation: Meet the Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspectors at 6.30 p.m. on Wednesday 26th September 2018 at the Maid’s Head Hotel, Norwich NR3 1LB

As part of its current inspection of Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT), inspectors from the regulators of care, Care Quality Commission (CQC), would like to meet to hear current views of the care delivered by the mental health trust for Norfolk and Suffolk. The last time CQC inspected NSFT, one year ago, it

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BBC News: Richard Handley: ‘Gross failures’ in constipation death

BBC News reports: A “missed opportunity” for potentially life-saving treatment contributed to the death of a man from constipation complications, an inquest has found. Richard Handley, 33, who had Down’s syndrome, died at Ipswich Hospital on 17 November 2012. Some 10kg (22lb) of faeces was removed from his body two days before. Coroner Dr Peter

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EDP: Tranquilisation changes came too little too late for Norwich man, says sister

Geraldine Scott of the Eastern Daily Press reports: “The sister of a mentally ill man who died after being tranquillised in hospital has slammed the region’s mental health trust for not addressing problems with the practice sooner. And a inquest into his death found failings in the care he received from Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation

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EDP: Mother of Norwich man who died of heroin overdose blames institutional failings of mental health trust

Geraldine Scott of the Eastern Daily Press reports: The family of a man who died of a heroin overdose at his Norwich flat blamed “institutional failings of the mental health trust” for the circumstances surrounding his death. Mr Jacobs’ friends told Norfolk’s Coroner’s Court this morning it was here Mr Jacobs was victim to the

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EDP: ‘What people need is support and understanding’ – Sister of mental health patient Neil Jewell speaks out over the care he received before his death

Geraldine Scott interviews Neil Jewell’s brave family in the Eastern Daily Press: A family has described the “seven year period of spiralling decline” a man suffered before sustaining fatal injuries while under the care of the region’s mental health trust. Neil Jewell, 42, of Philadelphia Lane, Norwich, died on January 17, 2014, while sectioned under

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BBC News: ‘Neglect’ contributed to Neil Jewell’s death

Nikki Fox of the BBC reports: The trust which runs mental health services in Norfolk and Suffolk has apologised after an inquest found that neglect contributed to a patient’s death. Neil Jewell, 42, died in 2014 after a series of failures, the inquest said. He had paranoid schizophrenia and was not properly monitored after being

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Deaths Crisis: Notes on a Scandal: Safeguarding Adult Review (SAR) in respect of Mr Neil Jewell

We haven’t been able to publish the devastating review into the shocking death of Neil Jewell as a jury inquest has been taking place. However, we can now publish the Safeguarding Adult Review (SAR) into Neil’s death in full. We’d like to express our admiration for Neil Jewell’s family for their determination: they have lived

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

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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Help: Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspecting NSFT in July 2016

CQC, the independent regulator of health, mental health and adult social care in England will be inspecting Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust the week beginning the 11th July.  They would like to hear feedback about mental health services before the inspection. There are a number of ways people can feedback their views (CQC are

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EDP: Mental health patients in our region are being failed by the government, says MP

Having our campaigning local media and one MP who genuinely cares about mental health makes such a difference. Annabelle Dickson, Political Editor of the EDP, reports: Norfolk and Suffolk mental health services would have almost £70m a year more if they were treated in the same way as physical health, the Norwich South MP has claimed.

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EDP: We’re at a turning point, says Norfolk and Suffolk mental health chief

David Powles of the Eastern Daily Press reports: Michael Scott, Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust chief executive, pledged at yesterday’s AGM it had learned from its mistakes and promised that high quality, safe services would become ‘the norm not the exception’. However, his promises have been met with apprehension from mental health campaigners, who say

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BBC News: Spend on patients out of area up 400pc

The BBC reports: Spending on sending Norfolk and Suffolk mental health patients outside the two counties has risen four-fold in a year, new figures show. The annual report for the Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust says it spent £3.3m on placements outside the area in 2014-15 compared with £800,000 in 2013-14. It says this was

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EDP: Four-fold increase in bill to send mental health patients out of the region

The Eastern Daily Press reports: A lack of beds and increased demand led to a four-fold increase in the cost of sending people with mental health problems outside of Norfolk and Suffolk in 2014/15. When a bed on a ward is not available for people who need it in the region they are sent elsewhere

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EDP: Heartbroken family say Norfolk teenager received poor mental health care

More high quality reporting from David Powles into the treatment, or lack of treatment, of Kieran Fulcher on the front page of the EDP. Why does the press have to do the job of our politicians and NHS bureaucracy, just as it had to at Mid Staffs? The upper echelons of the NHS behave as

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EDP: Mental health trust spent record amount on agency staff

A mental health trust which is aiming to make savings of £8.9million spent a record high of £2.4m on temporary staff last month, it has emerged. Following the investigation by Monitor, which was launched in November, Norfolk and Suffolk agreed to try and make savings of £8.9m in this financial year. There is no overall

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EADT: Special report reveals huge rise in mental health cases in Suffolk

The number of children and adults referred into the Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust has gone up from 34,288 in 2010/11 to 44,574 in 2014/15, revealed in figures released to this newspaper under the Freedom of Information Act. At a time when more people are being referred into the trust, it is looking to

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Fiscal Fantasy Island: NSFT spends record £2.42 million on temporary staff as out of area bed days nearly double

Having wasted £17.25 million of taxpayers’ money getting rid of staff it needed, Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) spent nearly £2.5 million on temporary staff in May alone. This is a new record, even for NSFT. 68 per cent of this expenditure was on expensive agency staff and the reliance on temporary staff

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UNISON: Stark warning over further £36 million cuts to mental health services

UNISON issues stark warning over further £36 million cuts to mental health services UNISON has reacted angrily to news today that the proposed financial recovery plan for Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust includes a further £36 million of cuts.  The Trust, which provides mental health services across Norfolk and Suffolk, has already made £44

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