Harold Bodmer
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EDP: Campaign to secure Wicklewood mental health unit’s long-term future is relaunched
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 […]
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Save Ashcroft: Public Meeting on Thursday 8th January 7.30-9.30pm at the Vauxhall Centre, Norwich NR2 2SA
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 […]
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EDP: Women’s mental health unit near Wymondham is saved from closure – but number of beds will be reduced
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. […]
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EDP: Update: More than 2,900 people sign online petition to save the Ashcroft residential home
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 […]
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Julian Support: Ashcroft Update
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 […]
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BBC News: Ashcroft Centre anti-closure petition signed by thousands
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 […]
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Petition: Save Ashcroft
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
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 […]
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BBC News: Norfolk budget cut threatens women’s mental health unit
“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 […]
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Disintegration of Health and Social Care in Care Minister Norman Lamb’s own Constituency
North Norfolk MP and Minister of State at the Department of Health responsible for mental health, Norman Lamb, has been very quiet about the collapse of the Section 75 agreement […]
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Crisis Team Crisis: More than a month after the deadline for ending the use of beds beyond Norfolk & Suffolk, the crisis is WORSE not better
Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) and the three clinical commissioning groups in central Norfolk (North Norfolk CCG, South Norfolk CCG, Norwich CCG) made a big splash of their […]
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31st Day of Lent: Going without equal treatment for personal budgets
Joshua writes: “Many mental health patients are going without personal budgets; they are suffering from a double discrimination. Not only is mental health underfunded by the NHS but also it […]
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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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Letter from Approved Mental Health Practitioners (AMHPs) of Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) to North Norfolk CCG
The recipients of this letter were North Norfolk Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) with copies to Great Yarmouth & Waveney CCG (Healtheast), Norwich CCG, Norman Lamb – Minister of State for Care […]
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