Jacqueline Lake
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EDP: Opinion: Why we wanted to get hold of emails from NHS’ communications bosses
Tom Bristow of the Eastern Daily Press explains: I have been writing about problems at our mental health service for this newspaper since 2012. In that time, I have sat […]
Car Crash, CQC Inspection, Dangerous, Deaths Crisis, Dis the CQC, In NSFT's words, Knowing me, knowing you, aha!, Meltdown, NSFT Incompetence, NSFT Masterclass, PR Crisis, Press, Questions for the Board, Radical Restructure, Special Measures, Toxic Trust -
EDP: ‘Fobbed off’: Family of grandmother attacked in care home hits out at mental health trust
Tom Bristow of the Eastern Daily Press reports: The son of a dementia patient who died after she was attacked in a care home says he feels “fobbed off” by […]
Bed Crisis, Car Crash, Community Crisis, Dangerous, Deaths Crisis, Friends, Kept in the dark, Knowing me, knowing you, aha!, Meltdown, NSFT Cuts, NSFT Incompetence, NSFT Masterclass, PR Crisis, Press, Questions for the Board, Toxic Trust -
EDP: ‘Got away with it’ – NHS manager gloated about coverage of dead great-grandmother
Tom Bristow of the Eastern Daily Press reports: An NHS manager bragged that the service had “got away” with its failings being highlighted after the death of two dementia sufferers […]
Bed Crisis, Campaigning, Car Crash, Community Crisis, CQC Inspection, Dangerous, Deaths Crisis, Fixed Flawed Farce, Knowing me, knowing you, aha!, Meltdown, No More Daves, NSFT Cuts, NSFT Incompetence, NSFT Masterclass, PR Crisis, Press, Questions for the Board, Radical Restructure, Stitch-up -
EDP: Children and young people with mental ill health ‘slipped through the net’ as staff were forced to make own waiting lists
Geraldine Scott of the Eastern Daily Press reports: Staff working in children and young people’s mental health were forced to make their own waiting lists as official data was so […]
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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: Woman saw 25 mental health professionals in 14 months before her death, coroner’s report reveals
Geraldine Scott of the Eastern Daily Press reports: A coroner has issued a warning over the death of a young woman who saw more than 25 members of the region’s […]
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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” […]
Campaigning, Car Crash, Community Crisis, CQC Inspection, Crisis Team Crisis, Dangerous, Deaths Crisis, Gary's Page, Norman Lamb, NSFT - A Warning from History, NSFT Cuts, NSFT Incompetence, Press, Questions for the Board, Revolving Doors, Special Measures, STP, Where are the TSSers now? -
EDP: OPINION: Coroners are too quick to shy away from saying a death was a suicide – it is time for a change
Geraldine Scott of the Eastern Daily Press writes: Across Europe, one person takes their own life every two hours. And in Norfolk we have significantly higher rates of suicide than […]
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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 […]
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Deaths Crisis: EDP: Norwich man suffering psychotic episode died after being restrained, inquest hears
Adam Howlett of the Eastern Daily Press reports: A man who suffered fatal injuries while under the care of the Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust had run out of […]
Bed Crisis, CAMHS Crisis, Campaigning, Clozapine Crisis, Community Crisis, Crisis Team Crisis, Dangerous, Deaths Crisis, Gary's Page, No More Daves, NSFT - A Warning from History, NSFT Cuts, NSFT Incompetence, Press, Questions for the Board -
EDP: Deaths at mental health service show lack of learning, says doctor
Tom Bristow of the Archant Investigations Unit reports: The region’s troubled mental health service has been accused of failing to learn from its mistakes after it emerged that nowhere in […]
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Kept in the Dark: Should we expect the ‘independent inquiry’ into unexpected deaths at NSFT to be a whitewash?
The ‘independent inquiry’ into unexpected deaths at Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) is being published on Thursday, 26th May 2016 at the NSFT board meeting at Hellesdon Hospital, […]
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Private Eye: Mental Health: Fatal Admission… and how the unexpected deaths at NSFT keep on increasing
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) plumbs the depths of infamy as the tragic and avoidable death of Christopher Higgins features in the current issue of Private Eye. The […]
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Inquest into the death of Christopher Higgins concluded today: Coroner reports requesting changes to protect the lives of mental health patients in the future
Christopher Higgins was a 36 year old man, who in the last few weeks of his life suffered from his first, but acute, mental breakdown. In those last weeks, his […]
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EDP: ‘Tell my family I am sorry’ – the first words of mental health patient Christopher Higgins after fall which would prove fatal
Dominic Gilbert of the EDP reports: The heartbreaking first words spoken by Christopher Higgins after he suffered what were to be fatal injuries in a fall at a mental health […]
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BBC News: Jonathan Collinson inquest: Call to GPs over depressed patients
The parents of a man who took his own life have urged doctors to be more prepared to call in urgent mental health teams when patients say they have thought […]
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