On Friday of last week, the Chief Medical Officer of Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT), dodgy Dan Dalton, sent out this email: Why is dodgy Dan Dalton demanding the involvement of the trust’s consultant psychiatrists with such urgency, with a same day change in admission policy? Dodgy Dan’s email tell us: We need […]
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 through inquests of those let down by the Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust (NSFT) and interviewed many grieving and angry families. I’ve also followed the
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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 a promised investigation into her death. The Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) told the family of Doreen Livermore in January that it was
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 – because former Monty Python star Terry Jones had died. The Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust (NSFT) was criticised in an investigation into the death
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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 inaccurate and cases “slipped through the net”. Those were the findings of a report into services provided by the region’s mental health trust when inspectors
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 Long, 15, was found hanged in her room in Wymondham, Norfolk, in 2017. While the managers of Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) play
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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 mental health crisis team in the 14 months before she took her own life. We’ve been talking about the lack of any focus from Norfolk
Alice Hutton of The Observer reports: The family of a former footballer who died in a struggling dementia hospital will have to represent themselves at his inquest this week after being denied legal aid. We have serious and longstanding concerns about the operation of the Coroner and inquests in Norfolk. How can deaths be properly
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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” mental health support is leaving young men in north Norfolk at a heightened risk of taking their own lives. In recent months two young men
Yesterday, Alistair Campbell told the Eastern Daily Press: “On the one hand they’re saying services are terrible, and on the other hand they’re saying we don’t want any change. But there’s a bit of a big inconsistency in that. If they’re not happy with the services then at least look at some of the changes
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Dominic Gilbert of the Eastern Daily Press reports: Failures of mental health services “significantly contributed” to the suicide of a mother struggling with depression and post-traumatic stress disorder, a jury has found. Katherine Rought-Rought died at her home in North Park Avenue in Norwich on June 1, 2016 from asphyxiation due to strangulation. Only hours
Geraldine Scott of the Eastern Daily Press reports: A consultant psychiatrist said the set up of mental health services across the country was “terrible” at an inquest into the death of a Norwich mother. Dr Robert Higgo, an expert clinical psychiatrist, gave evidence at Norfolk Coroner’s Court in Norwich this morning, into the death of
Dominic Gilbert of the Norwich Evening News reports: A 32-year-old with Asperger’s and emotionally unstable personality disorder took his own life when NHS 111 call handlers hung up on him after months of “frustrations” with mental health services. At the inquest into his death, John Worthington’s parents have said their son was “failed” for years
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 other parts of the UK. The number of suicides in Norfolk is appalling: The age-adjusted three-year-rolling suicide rate, as published by the Office for National
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 trust” for the circumstances surrounding his death. Mr Jacobs’ friends told Norfolk’s Coroner’s Court this morning it was here Mr Jacobs was victim to the
UPDATE: We’ll be protesting about the terrible state of mental health services in Norfolk from 5 p.m. outside the venue before going in at 6 p.m. Join us! Healthwatch Norfolk is supposed to be the ‘consumer champion for health and social care’. Sadly, despite funding of £600,000 per year from Norfolk County Council, Healthwatch Norfolk
Amelia Reynolds and Kim Riley of the BBC report on the tragic and preventable death of Katrina Rolph: How many more preventable deaths can be allowed to happen? Why haven’t we got properly-funded mental health services in Norfolk and Suffolk? Why doesn’t Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) have a competent Board? What are
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Katie French of the Daily Mail reports: During the hearing, the court was told how Katrina was let down by a catalogue of errors by medical staff. It was revealed Katrina had raised the alarm with medics about her mental health but while her doctor urgently referred her for treatment – a youth service’s team
Dear Keith, Here are some questions for you about mental health in Broadland: Do you agree that it is a scandal that the age-adjusted three-year-rolling suicide rate, as published by the Office of National Statistics (ONS), rose by a staggering 164 per cent in Broadland between 2010-12 and 2013-15 while you were the Conservative MP
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We don’t have any questions for Clive Lewis. Clive Lewis walked from Ipswich to Norwich to highlight the devastating cuts to mental health before he was elected to be the MP for Norwich South. Clive Lewis joined hundreds of local people on both of our Marches for Mental Health. Clive Lewis has consistently supported our
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