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EADT: Special Report: One year on from mental health trust’s damning review – what’s changed?
Emily Townsend of the East Anglian Daily Times reports: Today marks a year since the Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust (NSFT) was rated ‘inadequate’ for the third time in a […]
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EDP: ‘The system is broken’ – emergency mental health 999 incidents double
Dominic Gilbert of the Eastern Daily Press reports: Urgent mental health-related incidents attended by police officers have almost doubled in four years as pressures on the 999 service grow. Coinciding […]
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BBC News: Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust ‘did not update GP’
BBC News reports: A mental health trust treating a 15-year-old girl with anorexia failed to keep in touch with her GP or keep full records, a report states. Again. Ellie […]
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EDP Front Page: Mental health patients in ‘acute distress’ STILL sent miles away five years after pledge to end practice
Geraldine Scott of the Eastern Daily Press reports: Scores of mental health patients in “acute distress” were sent out of Norfolk and Suffolk for care – despite five years of […]
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The Guardian: Nuwan Dissanayaka: Jamie is psychotic and won’t go outside. Mental health services are failing him
This article from Nuwan Dissanayaka needs to be read by everybody with an interest in mental health. Dr. Dissanayaka is really worth following on Twitter. We’re delighted Nuwan’s views are […]
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NHS Staff Survey 2018 – Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) is appalling – yet again – yet again
Yet again, the NHS Staff Survey results are appalling. Front line staff have been ‘led’ by overpaid muppets for far too long. With the publication of these results, the ‘leadership’ of […]
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Press Release: Campaign statement on the scandalous NHS Digital data exposing the mental health beds crisis at NSFT
A spokesperson for the Campaign to Save Mental Health Services in Norfolk and Suffolk said: “It is scandalous that, despite many promises to stop the transportation of people in mental […]
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EADT Front Page: ‘It’s scandalous’ – Campaigners slam broken promises after mental health patients sent hundreds of miles away
Emily Townsend of the East Anglian Daily Times reports: The situation facing Suffolk and Norfolk’s struggling mental health trust has been dubbed “scandalous” after it emerged patients in crisis are […]
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EDP: Opinion: ‘The biggest disgrace at mental health trust is that people were warned, and failed to act’
Former mental health nurse and Norfolk County Council mental health champion Emma Corlett writes in the Eastern Daily Press: As yet another damning report about Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation […]
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BBC News: Fraud doctor Zholia Alemi: Drowned man’s family voiced fears
Nikki Fox and Julian Sturdy of the BBC report: The family of a drowned patient have claimed he might still be alive if the fake psychiatrist responsible for his care […]
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Observer: Family’s lonely fight over dementia hospital death
Alice Hutton of The Observer reports: The family of a former footballer who died in a struggling dementia hospital will have to represent themselves at his inquest this week after […]
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Antek Lejk’s Game of Shame: NSFT Edition™
Are you demoralised by the five years of scandalous human misery and deaths caused by the cuts and chaos at Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT)? Are you worried […]
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Deaths Crisis: EDP: Deaths at mental health trust due to safety incidents rise by 75pc
Geraldine Scott of the Eastern Daily Press reports: Serious safety incidents led to 35 deaths at the region’s mental health trust over a six month period, figures have revealed. The […]
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EDP Front Page: Is ‘remote, awful and inhumane’ mental health support in north Norfolk behind a spate of young men’s deaths?
In investigative reporting that is worthy of a national journalism award, Jessica Frank-Keyes of the Eastern Daily Press writes: Grieving parents and a retired GP say “remote, awful and inhumane” […]
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Demonstration at NSFT Annual General Meeting (AGM): Hat-trick of failure: Three strikes and you’re out!
Directors of Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) are saying that they believe that the mental health trust has failed its recent inspection by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), […]
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The taxpayer vs. NSFT Chair Gary Page
The BBC today reported: The government has incurred a loss of £2.1bn after selling another tranche of shares in Royal Bank of Scotland. The shares were sold at 271p each, […]
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EDP: ‘Tolerance of poor standards’ at mental health trust, report finds
Geraldine Scott of the Eastern Daily Press reports: A damning review into the leadership at the region’s mental health trust has identified a “tolerance of poor standards”, it can be […]
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EDP: ‘I want to get my sleeves rolled up and improve things’ – New mental health boss sets out priorities
Geraldine Scott of the Eastern Daily Press reports: The new boss of the region’s mental health trust has expressed his disappointment after it was revealed service users and carers gave […]
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BBC News: Peter Wrighton murder: Alexander Palmer doctors ‘warned’ of knife hoard
Robby West and Matt Precey of the BBC report: The parents of a mentally ill ex-soldier warned a health trust he was collecting knives before he murdered an 83-year-old dog […]
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