Petition: Directly Address the Mental Health Crisis at UEA

Adam Harvey writes: One UK student dies by suicide every four days and UEA has seen several student deaths this year, all of which have affected UEA as a community, and all of which are unacceptable. Each time the university releases an identically robotic statement, but nothing practical is being done to change the inadequate […]

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Norwich Evening News: Man “frustrated” at mental health delays took his own life after NHS 111 hung up on him

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

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EDP: Norfolk and Suffolk mental health trust loses cash and UEA medical students amid training concerns

Tom Bristow of the Eastern Daily Press reports: The region’s mental health trust has been stripped of some medical students and funding amid concerns about the quality of its training. The Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust (NSFT) was being paid by Health Education England (HEE) to train 47 medical students from the University of East

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EADT: Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Trust could lose medical training deal with University of East Anglia

Andrew Hirst of the East Anglian Daily Times reports: Suffolk’s mental health trust risks financial losses and reputational damage because of its poor performance training medical students. Directors discussing the programme at last week’s board meeting were told the University of East Anglia (UEA) had proposed to remove its students from the trust because of

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New Ways of Shirking: £1m of mental health funding under threat at NSFT after medical education failure

The papers for last week’s Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) Board meeting report: SIFT and provision of medical undergraduate teaching. On 29th April the UEA wrote to NSFT to highlight the poor performance of teaching for Undergraduates provided by NSFT, the concerns about the length of time it has taken to make changes and the plan

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Public Meeting: We are among speakers at Blackfriars Hall, Norwich NR3 1AU at 7 p.m. on Friday 11th December

We are speaking about the mental health crisis at the public meeting at Blackfriars Hall, Norwich NR3 1AU at 7 p.m. on Friday 11th December. Come along and support us. Other speakers include influential tax campaigner Richard Murphy, Syriza member and UEA academic Marina Prentoulis, Green Group Leader Richard Bearman, Labour and Unison activist Jo

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EDP: Meeting hears of mental health concerns

Patients, carers, professionals and members of the public met at the University of East Anglia to share their experiences at the second anniversary meeting of the Campaign to Save Mental Services in Norfolk and Suffolk. The guest speaker, author and Guardian journalist Owen Jones, was invited because of a moving article he wrote when the

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2nd Anniversary Public Meeting Poster to distribute or display

You can download the poster for our 2nd Anniversary Public Meeting as a pdf to distribute or display by clicking on the image below. Please spread the word.

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2nd November 2015: Norfolk 2nd Anniversary Public Meeting with Guest Speaker Owen Jones UEA LT1 1730-1930

Join us on Monday 2nd November 2015 for our second anniversary public meeting in Norfolk. Our meeting is taking place at the University of East Anglia in Lecture Theatre 1, 5.30-7.30 p.m. There is a location map below and you can download a campus map here. Our guest speaker is Owen Jones, influential thinker, newspaper

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New Ways of Shirking: NSFT Director of Research wanted, no PhD or substantial publications required = £150,000 per year

Last year, members of our campaign witnessed an embarrassing presentation to the Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) Board of Directors meeting at Swaffham during which the NSFT Deputy Medical Director with responsibility for research asked for money to ‘pump-prime’ NSFT’s research programmes. An NSFT Governor and member of our campaign asked how NSFT could

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