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Press Release: Campaign statement on the delays to the cuts café
A spokesperson from the Campaign to Save Mental Health Services in Norfolk and Suffolk said: “People in crisis need real services, not being patronised with cups of tea and endless […]
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EDP: Mental health crisis hub delayed by a year as patients continue to be sent hundreds of miles for treatment
Geraldine Scott of the Eastern Daily Press reports: A crisis hub pegged to help stem the number of mental health patients sent miles away due to a lack of beds […]
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BBC News: Mental health: The NHS patients who are ‘abused and ignored’
Nick Triggle of BBC News reports: New rights should be given to severely ill mental health patients detained in hospital to stop abuse and neglect of this vulnerable group, a […]
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The Guardian: Ministers urged to act over Norfolk and Suffolk mental health trust
Matthew Weaver of The Guardian reports: The health secretary, Matt Hancock, is facing mounting calls to intervene in England’s worst performing mental health trust after it was rated inadequate for […]
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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” […]
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Beds not Tea: Cuts Café Consultation: Last chance to respond
The bureaucrats who commission NHS mental health services in Norfolk have decided to run their consultation into the proposed cuts café over the Christmas and New Year holiday period, thus […]
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Video: BBC National News at Six: NSFT rated Inadequate and placed into Special Measures for Second Time
BBC Health Correspondent, Sophie Hutchinson, of the BBC national News at Six, reports on Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) becoming the mental health trust to be placed into […]
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RSA Norwich: The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions
Terry Skyrme reflects on the recent RSA mental health event in Norwich: “Campaign supporters held a protest outside an event organized by the RSA at St Michael’s church in Norwich. […]
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The Norwich Radical: The Elephant in the Room: Norfolk’s Mental Health Crisis
Hannah Rose reports in The Norwich Radical from the recent RSA event: Instead, I was perturbed by the oddly formal sense of occasion — cheese and wine were offered on arrival […]
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Protest: RSA: “Throwing money we don’t have at a problem that just won’t go away is not the answer.”
Tomorrow evening, on Tuesday 7th June 2016, we will be protesting at the failure to invite service users, carers and professionals to an event the purpose of which is said […]
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A Revolution in Mental Health? Questions about the Prime Minister’s announcement of new funding
The government is making much of David Cameron’s mental health announcement today and any new money for mental health is welcome. Yet all of the figures are promises for total […]
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Research: Specialist mental health services in England in 2014: overview of funding, access and levels of care
Specialist mental health services in England in 2014: overview of funding, access and levels of care Mary Docherty and Graham Thornicroft International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2015 9:34 DOI: 10.1186/s13033-015-0023-9 © Docherty and Thornicroft. 2015 Abstract […]
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BBC News: Mental health crisis care ‘inadequate’
Nick Triggle of the BBC reports: People who need urgent mental health care in England are receiving inadequate support, regulators say. The Care Quality Commission reviewed the help given to […]
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Survey: Mind Mental Health Support Line pilot
The five CCGs in Norfolk are examining whether to continue funding the Mind Mental Health Support Line pilot. What are you experiences of using the service? There are lots of ways […]
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Guardian: ‘System failure’ of NHS mental health services puts pressure on A&E wards
Haroon Siddique of the Guardian reports: Large numbers of people with mental health issues are ending up in A&E wards because of “system failure”, according to leaked minutes of a […]
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Mind the Gap: Mental health charity Mind excludes election candidate, mental health service user and disability campaigner, Mick Hardy, from its mental health election panel
We’ve just receives this shocking press release from Mick Hardy, prospective parliamentary candidate in Norwich North for the Dandy Party and a founder member of the Campaign to Save Mental […]
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BBC News: Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust failed to act on 258 recommendations
Nic Rigby of the BBC reports: A mental health trust failed to act on 258 recommendations from 98 reviews into serious incidents, such as patient deaths, a report has revealed. […]
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Community Care: Mental health trust should face special measures over ‘inadequate’ safety and leadership, says CQC
We were all delighted to meet Andy McNicoll, deservedly Mind Mental Health Journalist of the Year, at our campaign meeting yesterday. Ethical investigative journalism is a critical component in our […]
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It is a crisis: What MIND really thinks about mental health under Health Minister Norman Lamb and the CCGs created by his government
Mind has written privately to all prospective Members of Parliament. Rather than the usual sycophantic nonsense for public consumption, Mind has told the brutal truth to prospective MPs: that the […]
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BBC News: Norfolk and Suffolk mental health unit waits of 22 hours ‘not acceptable’
Nic Rigby of the BBC reports: Patients having to wait up to 22 hours in mental health assessment suites in Norfolk and Suffolk is “unacceptable”, leading experts have said. A […]
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