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Peggy Copeman: A much loved Norfolk woman who died because of the beds crisis at NSFT
(written with permission of Peggy Copeman’s family) The CCTV footage of Peggy Copeman being wheeled down the hospital corridor as she left Cygnet hospital can be viewed in this article […]
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CAMHS Crisis: What has been happening to waiting lists for children and young people at NSFT?
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) sent dishonest letters to hundreds of children and young people on waiting lists. NSFT claims that the dishonest discharge letters were a ‘mistake’ […]
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Video: BBC Look East: NSFT sends dishonest discharge letters to more than 300 children and young people using Covid-19 as an excuse
This BBC Look East report by Health Correspondent Nikki Fox exposes abuse of the Covid-19 epidemic by Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) as a shameful excuse to send […]
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CAMHS Crisis: The shameful discharge letters sent to more than 300 young people abusing the Covid-19 epidemic
These shameful letters sent by Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) abused the Covid-19 epidemic as an excuse to discharge 300+ children and young people from waiting lists at […]
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CAMHS Crisis: In full: Appalling CQC report into NSFT’s CFYP Youth Services at 80 St Stephen’s
We’ve never read a Care Quality Commission(CQC) inspection report as bad as this. CQC finds that the management of Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust’s (NSFT) mental health services for […]
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CAMHS Crisis: Service Director of NSFT’s Children, Families and Young People’s mental health services, Rob Mack, needs ‘signposting’ – out of the door
Last week, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) published a devastating report into the Youth service based at 80 St Stephen’s in Norwich, which is supposed to support young people in […]
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EDP: Revealed: How mental health patients are being sent to failing private hospital
Geraldine Scott of the Eastern Daily Press reports: Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust (NSFT) sent 21 patients to Kneesworth House, in Royston, over the last year and on Tuesday it […]
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EDP: ‘The system is broken’ – emergency mental health 999 incidents double
Dominic Gilbert of the Eastern Daily Press reports: Urgent mental health-related incidents attended by police officers have almost doubled in four years as pressures on the 999 service grow. Coinciding […]
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Press release: Campaign investigation into the deeply-flawed Mental Health Strategy written by BCG for Norfolk and Waveney STP: Part I
We have already expressed our concerns about the Norfolk and Waveney STP’s Mental Health Strategy. Now, our worst fears have been confirmed. Whilst the Mental Health Strategy contains some fine […]
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EDP: Campaigners ask where mental health nurses will come from under new GP surgery plan
Geraldine Scott of the Eastern Daily Press reports: Concerns have been raised over where mental health nurses to be placed in doctors’ surgeries are going to come from amid a […]
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The Guardian: Nuwan Dissanayaka: Jamie is psychotic and won’t go outside. Mental health services are failing him
This article from Nuwan Dissanayaka needs to be read by everybody with an interest in mental health. Dr. Dissanayaka is really worth following on Twitter. We’re delighted Nuwan’s views are […]
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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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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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Campaign Road Trip: Three strikes and you’re out! London protests at DHSC, NHSI and NHSE and meeting MPs in Parliament: Monday 17th December 2018
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), NHS England (NHSE) and NHS Improvement (NHSI) appear to have decided to ignore the third Inadequate report from care regulator, Care Quality […]
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Press Release: Norfolk and Waveney Adult Mental Health Strategy written by BCG
A spokesperson for the Campaign to Save Mental Health Services in Norfolk and Suffolk said: We already know from service users, carers, front line staff and three Inadequate ratings from […]
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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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EDP: Opinion: ‘The biggest disgrace at mental health trust is that people were warned, and failed to act’
Former mental health nurse and Norfolk County Council mental health champion Emma Corlett writes in the Eastern Daily Press: As yet another damning report about Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation […]
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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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Video: BBC News at Six: NSFT expected to fail yet another CQC inspection
BBC Health Correspondent, Sophie Hutchinson, of the BBC national News at Six, discusses Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) being expected to fail yet another inspection by Care Quality […]
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