BBC News: Mundesley Hospital closes after mental health trust withdraws patients

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BBC News reports: A private hospital rated as inadequate has closed down after a mental health trust withdrew all its patients, citing safety concerns. Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) said it was not confident that safety improvements at the 27-bed Mundesley Hospital in Norfolk were taking place quickly enough. This isn’t what complacent […]

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EDP: Mundesley Hospital’s shock closure following damning care quality report

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Only the actions of our mental health campaign ensured Mundesley Hospital was promptly inspected by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) and Norfolk’s Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) would have carried on using the inadequate private hospital without our intervention and that of the EDP. We suspect Jane Sayer’s appalling

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EDP: Call made to ‘end culture of pay outs’ in public sector – as it was revealed mental health boss will work six more months

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On the front page of the Eastern Daily Press, Geraldine Scott reports: Call made to ‘end culture of pay outs’ in public sector – as it was revealed mental health boss will work six more months. It comes as it was revealed the chief executive of the region’s failing mental health trust will be paid

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EDP: Not enough staff, not enough beds – inspectors brand region’s mental health trust inadequate again

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Geraldine Scott of the Eastern Daily Press reports: The region’s mental health trust has once again been branded as failing as inspectors found serious issues first raised three years ago had not been fixed. Inspectors found patients at Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) were unsafe and the service was inadequately led, as the

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Dis the CQC: EDP: Staff members suspended, police called, and patients left unsupervised at private mental health hospital inspectors could close down in six months

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Geraldine Scott of the Eastern Daily Press reports: Inspectors found the hospital was unsafe and poorly led, and chief inspector of hospitals Professor Edward Baker said the CQC was beginning “the process of preventing the provider from operating the service”. This means if in six months things have not improved, the CQC will shut the

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Campaign statement on the immediate ‘retirement’ of Chief Executive of NSFT, Michael ‘Payrise’ Scott

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  “We have long been calling for a new Board and management culture at NSFT which puts patients and carers first and foremost and genuinely engages with front line staff. “While Michael Scott’s sudden ‘retirement’ is a personal tragedy, albeit one tempered by an enormous pension, it could represent the beginning of an opportunity to

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EDP: Mental health trust boss Michael Scott retires with immediate effect ahead of pending inspection report

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Geraldine Scott of the Eastern Daily Press reports: The boss of the region’s beleaguered mental health trust is retiring with immediate effect. The trust recently had its third inspection and NSFT chair Gary Page said as they “await the inspection report, Michael feels now is the appropriate time for a new leader to take forward

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EDP: Health secretary Jeremy Hunt admits care for 19-year-old Lydia Stafford, from Congham, was not good enough before her death

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Geraldine Scott of the Eastern Daily Press reports: A young woman from Norfolk who was “intelligent, loving and full of life” may have survived if the same level of treatment for eating disorders was fair across the country, health secretary Jeremy Hunt has admitted. Lydia Stafford was just 19 when she was found dead at

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EDP: Mental health crisis services in Norfolk are ‘uncaring, unwelcoming, unsafe and ineffective’ says new report

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Geraldine Scott of the Eastern Daily Press reports: “Tell them you are suicidal and they do nothing”. This is one of the shocking comments made by people in desperate need about Norfolk’s mental health crisis care. They are revealed today in a damning report by Healthwatch Norfolk, which spoke to 680 crisis care users –

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Beds Crisis: EDP: Man spends nearly three days in police custody waiting for a mental health bed

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Geraldine Scott of the Eastern Daily Press reports: A man was held in police custody for nearly 60 hours while he waited for a mental health bed to become available. The man – one of 10 similar cases recorded by police between May 2016 and February 2017 – was arrested for a public order offence

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EDP: Mental health trust governor speaks out after restrictions on confidential papers after Panorama leak

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Geraldine Scott of the Eastern Daily Press reports: Aired in February this year, the programme shone a light on the Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) and how the number of unexpected patient deaths at NSFT rose when the trust cut services as part of its “radical redesign”. But after papers for the board

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Greed: EDP: £54,000 payment for ex-NSFT boss who got top job at Colchester Hospital three months later

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NHS managers wonder why we have a low opinion of them… Matt Stott of the East Anglian Daily Times (EADT) reports: Alison Armstrong resigned as director of operations at the Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) in January 2017 after two years. She was applauded for helping to remove the NSFT from special measures

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Fact check: EDP: ‘Things are moving in the right direction’ at region’s mental health trust, says chief executive

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Geraldine Scott of the EDP ‘interviews’ Michael ‘Payrise’ Scott, the £175,000 per year Chief Executive of Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT): The region’s mental health trust has reported it has seen financial growth at the same time as slashing its deficit for the first time in five years. That sounds great. Sadly, ‘slashing

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EDP: Norfolk clinical commissioning group one of just nine in England to miss mental health investment target as suicide rates soar

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Geraldine Scott of the Eastern Daily Press reports: One of Norfolk’s clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) is due to fall short of the amount of money it should be putting towards mental health despite latest figures showing the number of suicides in the area has rocketed. Research from the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCP) has shown

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Beds Crisis: A Partial Victory? Closure of last mental health beds in West Norfolk halted?

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In February of last year, we challenged the Board of Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) about rumours that it intended to close the last mental health beds in West Norfolk at the Fermoy Unit in King’s Lynn: Bosses at the Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) said they could not rule out

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Fixed, Flawed Farce: Part 3: EDP: A staggering waste: More than £1.6m spent sending region’s mental health patients to private hospital in just seven months

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Geraldine Scott of the Eastern Daily Press reports: More than £1.6m has been spent by the region’s mental health trust on sending patients to a private hospital since it was put into special measures by inspectors last year. Mental health campaigners alleged Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust (NSFT) continue to use the private Mundesley Hospital,

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CAMHS Crisis: EDP: Northrepps mother’s frustration over accessing mental health care for her son

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Geraldine Scott, Health Correspondent of the Eastern Daily Press, reports: Michelle Kimp, 35, has struggled to get the appropriate medical treatment for her 12-year-old son Robert – who has aspergers and ADD – for around seven years. Mrs Kimp said due to his conditions Robert had depression and had spoken about taking his own life.

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Beds Crisis: EDP: Campaigners criticise new mental health trust proposals: ‘We want beds not cups of tea’

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Geraldine Scott of the Eastern Daily Press reports: No new beds for patients in psychiatric crisis will be made available by the region’s mental health trust, despite concerns being raised by the health watchdog over that a shortage of beds “had impaired patient safety and treatment at times”. We haven’t found a senior doctor at

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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

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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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EDP: Mental health trust boss admits ‘still too many’ patients were sent out of the area as more than £500,000 was spent on doing so last month

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Geraldine Scott of the Eastern Daily Press reports: More than £500,000 was spent on sending patients under the care of the region’s mental health trust to other facilities in the last month as bosses admit “still too many” patients were being sent out of the area for treatment. Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT)

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