Sheila Preston
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Press Release: Victory! NSFT to reintroduce Assertive Outreach with £1m investment
UPDATE 06/05/2020: Sadly, this was an April Fool. The quotes from former Professor Jonathan Warren and Marie Gabriel are genuine and accurate, taken from the Board and Governors minutes. Jonathan […]
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Exclusive: First NSFT’s governors knew of the involvement of Antek Lejk’s Cornwall PCT in the out-of-hours deaths scandal was when they read about it in the EDP
We have been told that the governors of Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) were placed under what we consider to be inappropriate pressure to approve the appointment of […]
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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: Crowds gather in Norwich city centre to join March for Mental Health
Sabrina Johnson of the Eastern Daily Press reports: Hundreds of people of all ages gathered in Norwich city centre to add their voices to the call for better mental health […]
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Video: BBC Look East leads with our March for Mental Health in Norwich
Jenny Kirk of the BBC reports: The number of ‘unexpected deaths’ at Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) has more than doubled in just four years.
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EDP: Mental health trust boss admits ‘still too many’ patients were sent out of the area as more than £500,000 was spent on doing so last month
Geraldine Scott of the Eastern Daily Press reports: More than £500,000 was spent on sending patients under the care of the region’s mental health trust to other facilities in the […]
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Deaths Crisis: Your comments: BBC Panorama: Britain’s Mental Health Crisis
Below is a selection of the messages we have received since the BBC Panorama programme examining the massive increase in the number of unexpected deaths after the savage cuts inflicted […]
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Deaths crisis: The graph that exposes the scandal at NSFT
Our campaign was founded in November 2013 by health professionals who were desperately worried about what they believed was an increase in preventable deaths at Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) as […]
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EDP: Mother of Norwich patient says son with schizophrenia could have been saved and blasts mental health services
Tom Bristow of the Eastern Daily Press reports: The last time Sheila Preston saw her son alive was Christmas 2014. Almost two years later, two police officers knocked on her […]
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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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Video: BBC Look East on our AGM protest over removal of unexpected deaths from NSFT Annual Report and Prime Minister’s Questions
Watch Kevin Burch of the BBC report on our AGM protest over the ever-increasing number of deaths of patients of Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) and the decision […]
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EADT: Protest at Norfolk and Suffolk mental health trust AGM over unexpected patient deaths data
Gemma Mitchell of the East Anglian Daily Times reports: Campaigners have demanded answers and greater transparency from mental health bosses over a “shocking” rise in unexpected patient deaths in Suffolk […]
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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 […]
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Video: Carer, Sheila Preston, and an anonymous service user interviewed by BBC Look East
If you use an Apple product and have problems viewing the video below, click here to view on youtube. There are, of course, the usual Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation […]
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Audio: Sheila Preston, carer, interviewed on BBC Radio Norfolk Breakfast Show
Sheila Preston tells the BBC what it is like to be the carer of a son with schizophrenia reliant upon Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) and supports both […]
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