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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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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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Disintegration of Health and Social Care in Care Minister Norman Lamb’s own Constituency

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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 between Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) and Norfolk County Council (NCC) Social Services Department. Section 75 is the legal mechanism which enables health

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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

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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 undertaking to end the inhumane, expensive, dangerous and illegal practice of having insufficient beds for people in mental health crisis in Norfolk and Suffolk, which

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31st Day of Lent: Going without equal treatment for personal budgets

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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 is being hit by blatant discrimination in the allocation of personal budgets. In Adult Care Social Services, personal Budgets are agreed readily and speedily by

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Response from North Norfolk CCG to AMHP letter highlighting bed crisis at NSFT

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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 are returned and there is no likelihood of out of area placement reoccurring. This reply can be downloaded as a pdf also. You can read

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Letter from Approved Mental Health Practitioners (AMHPs) of Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) to North Norfolk CCG

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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 and Support and MP for North Norfolk, Harold Bodmer – Director of Adult Care Social Services at Norfolk County Council and the Care Quality Commission

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