EDP: “We are long way off parity of esteem” – shadow mental health minister Luciana Berger hits out at government during visit to region

Nicholas Carding of the Eastern Daily Press reports on our meeting with Luciana Berger, Shadow Cabinet Minister for Mental Health and Clive Lewis, MP for Norwich South: A senior politician today said parity of esteem is still not occuring within the NHS. Ms Berger, MP for Liverpool Wavertree, met with members of Save Mental Health […]

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Video: BBC News Exclusive Investigation – ‘Firefighting to keep patients alive’

‘Unprecedented failings’: ‘Firefighting to Keep Patients Alive’ An exclusive investigation of the crisis in mental health services in Norfolk and Suffolk on the national News at Six and Ten on BBC1 and the BBC News channel. Isn’t it shameful that the Board of Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT), led by a Chief Executive

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Audio: BBC Radio Suffolk interviews campaign member about CQC report and CAMHS crisis

Listen to Anne Humphreys, a carer and campaign member, talking from personal experience about the Care Quality Commission (CQC) rating of inadequate and the crisis in mental health services at Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT), with a particular focus on services for children and young people (CAMHS):   Anne and Bec have started

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mummabearuk: A CAMHS carer responds to Norman Lamb’s ‘taskforce’

Anne, a CAMHS carer and campaign supporter, writes: “So now the press embargo has been lifted I can write about Norman Lamb’s Task Force which has been announced in today’s media. So he’s finally decided that children and young people’s mental health services need improving – has he really only just thought of this! If

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Independent: Children’s mental healthcare in crisis, Care Minister Norman Lamb admits

“…charities and local councils warned of a “national crisis” in young people’s mental health. Nearly half of all local authorities have slashed funding for services after seeing their budgets cut by the Coalition Government’s austerity drive – with funding for children’s mental health reduced by as much as 94 per cent in some areas.” Whose

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Newsflash: CAMHS crisis in tomorrow’s Independent with live interviews on BBC Radio Suffolk & Norfolk

Read Charlie Cooper’s article on the crisis in child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) tomorrow in The Independent. Listen to our campaigner and CAMHS carer, Anne,  interviewed live tomorrow: On BBC Radio Suffolk just after the 0630 news On BBC Radio Norfolk just after the 0700 news

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CAMHS Crisis Petition: Make Mental Health First Aid training mandatory for at least one teacher in every Primary and Secondary School in England

“Currently, there is no requirement on teaching staff in our schools to undertake any mental health first aid training. Physical first aid training is of course mandatory, so why not mental health? This initiative would mean that children showing early signs of mental distress may be helped earlier and signposted for early intervention as opposed

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