CAMHS Crisis: BBC News: Norfolk and Suffolk NHS mental health facility has empty beds

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Nikki Fox of the BBC reports: Mental health campaigners are “incredulous” five beds for children are unused when 20 patients are being treated “out of the area”. Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) created a 12-bed unit in Lowestoft, costing £1m, in September. NHS England said it provides funding to staff seven of the […]

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Mirror: NHS crisis: Teen mental health patients put on ADULT wards in bed shortage

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NHS England, a leaked email reveals, have told regional health bosses the shortage of beds is so bad that older teenagers are set to be admitted to adult wards The NHS beds crisis plumbed new depths as hospitals were advised to put teenage mental health patients onto adult wards. NHS England, a leaked email reveals,

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Observer: Beds crisis hits NHS care for mentally ill children

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In the email seen by the Observer, which was sent on Friday on the instruction of national officials working for NHS England, the medical director for East Anglia, says: “I have just been asked to inform you all by the national specialist commissioning team of the current national lack of child and adolescent mental health

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

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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

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“…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

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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

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“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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