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BBC News: Mental health trust’s out-of-area placements hit record levels
The BBC reports: A troubled mental health trust is sending record numbers of people far from home for treatment, figures show. Some Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust patients are […]
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Audio: BBC Radio Norfolk: Campaign spokesperson interviewed by Nick Conrad about Beds Crisis and Mental Health Meltdown at NSFT
For those who missed this interview on BBC Radio Norfolk, you can now listen by clicking on the audio bar below:
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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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NHS Staff Survey 2017 – Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) is appalling – yet again
Yet again, the NHS Staff Survey results are appalling. Even worse than 2016. The extremely expensive Comms Department at Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) will try to spin these […]
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EDP: Tranquilisation changes came too little too late for Norwich man, says sister
Geraldine Scott of the Eastern Daily Press reports: “The sister of a mentally ill man who died after being tranquillised in hospital has slammed the region’s mental health trust for […]
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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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EDP: Mental health crisis services in Norfolk are ‘uncaring, unwelcoming, unsafe and ineffective’ says new report
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 […]
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Fact check: EDP: ‘Things are moving in the right direction’ at region’s mental health trust, says chief executive
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 […]
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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
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 […]
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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
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 […]
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Fixed, Flawed Farce: Part 2: EDP: Half of mental health beds budget for Norfolk and Suffolk spent in first month of year
Tom Bristow, Investigations Editor of the Eastern Daily Press reports: Last year the Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust (NSFT) went £3.5m over budget on sending patients to beds at other […]
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Beds Crisis: EDP: How 140 NHS mental health beds have been cut in Norfolk and Suffolk
Investigative reporter Tom Bristow of the Eastern Daily Press reports: A quarter of mental health beds in Norfolk and Suffolk have been lost in the last four years. While England […]
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Beds Crisis: EDP: Campaigners criticise new mental health trust proposals: ‘We want beds not cups of tea’
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 […]
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BBC News: ‘Neglect’ contributed to Neil Jewell’s death
Nikki Fox of the BBC reports: The trust which runs mental health services in Norfolk and Suffolk has apologised after an inquest found that neglect contributed to a patient’s death. […]
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Deaths Crisis: Notes on a Scandal: Safeguarding Adult Review (SAR) in respect of Mr Neil Jewell
We haven’t been able to publish the devastating review into the shocking death of Neil Jewell as a jury inquest has been taking place. However, we can now publish the […]
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EDP Front Page: Mental health patient kept in Norfolk police cell for three days
Tom Bristow of the Eastern Daily Press reports: A mental health patient was kept in a police cell for three days in King’s Lynn because no bed could be found […]
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EDP: Unexpected deaths rise coincides with bed closures at region’s mental health trust, Panorama finds
Nicholas Carding of the Eastern Daily Press reports: A sharp rise in the number of mental health patients dying unexpectedly coincided with the responsible organisation cutting nearly a quarter of […]
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Video: BBC iPlayer: Panorama: Revealed: Britain’s Mental Health Crisis
One month after prime minister Theresa May promised to ‘transform the way we deal with mental health problems right across society’, reporter Sophie Hutchinson investigates the troubled state of NHS […]
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EDP: Unexpected deaths could reach new heights in mental health care
Nicholas Carding of the Eastern Daily Press reports: The tragic saga of patients dying unexpectedly at the region’s mental health trust continues after it emerged the number of deaths could […]
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