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@NSFTCrisis
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This independent response to
@NSFTtweets
Mortality Review was written by our allies
@CarolineAldrid5
@AnneHumphrys
@TownCloseEmma
Pls support call for a statutory public enquiry. Forever gone: Losing count of patient deaths download free from
#NSFTdeaths
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Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
@NSFTtweets
tells NHS staff not to tweet about PPE, testing and exit strategies.
Because lack of PPE, testing and exit strategies are 'political'.
We thought they concerned Covid-19 safety for patients, staff and carers?
#Gagged
#SPIN
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If you need a mental health bed in Norwich, the NHS has already been privatised as hundreds of people have been transported to substandard private beds, some 300 kms away.
At
@NSFTtweets
since 2010, more than 140 mental health beds have closed, 1 in 5 doctors and nurses are gone
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This is the reality of the crisis in mental health services.
20 year old Emily has been transported from North Norfolk to Glasgow in Scotland because of the lack of local suitable beds.
Imagine if this was your daughter, granddaughter or sister.
She wrote this to us today.
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UN CRPD Committee member just asked UK Gov't delegation to explain what they're doing to address the biggest deaths crisis in the history of the NHS
@NSFTtweets
The
@NSFTCrisis
@NSFTdeaths
@notsafeft
has now been exposed internationally
#CRDP24
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@Jeremy_Hunt
@MattHancock
How can
@Jeremy_Hunt
hold the government to account as Chair of
@CommonsHealth
when as Health Secretary until July 2018 he failed to implement changes after 2016 Exercise Cygnus (which the government refuses to publish) showed the NHS was ill-prepared for a pandemic?
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@nuwandiss
The person subjected to this abuse is a front line mental health worker at
@NSFTtweets
. Completely unacceptable. Note should read 'I have been watching you travel every day putting yourself at risk to help others while I sit in safety.'
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This is why our campaign exists. We are calling for a public inquiry into
@NSFTtweets
to establish how many have died and why this trust has been allowed to fail for years. Too many in mental distress or died because
#mentalhealth
services are in crisis
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“If people sicken and die, and it spreads to people who it shouldn’t affect because we should have been more on top of this, we are looking at gross negligence.”
Says real Professor
@Johnrashton47
.
@didoharding
couldn't run a bath.
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Photos from today’s march in Norwich. Thank you to everyone who came along to support us.
#NSFTcrisis
#WorldMentalHealthDay2022
@NSFTtweets
please read our banners and take actions.
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Thank you to
@StopSIMMH
for all you have done. You succeeded in closing JET/SIM in Suffolk and stopping its spread to Norfolk. Many of our members and supporters are deeply grateful.
We can empathise with “Campaigning burnout”
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"She was able to advocate for herself as a medical professional. If she can't get help what hope is there for anyone else"
@GeorgeFreemanMP
waiting for our invite to meet with you and the Minister for Mental Health
@mariacaulfield
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Fantastic coverage from John Harris. He captures the agony inflicted on service users and their families by callous
@NSFTtweets
for over 10 years.
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At least tomorrow's
@TheLancet
tells the truth about
@NHSEngland
and Covid-19:
"Patients will die unnecessarily. NHS staff will die unnecessarily. It is, indeed, as one health worker wrote last week, “a national scandal”. The gravity of that scandal has yet to be understood."
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The
@CareQualityComm
and
@NHSEngland
need to watch this report by
@nikkijfox
of
@BBCLookEast
and then tell the public why they are planning a stitch-up to allow disgraceful
@NSFTtweets
out of Special Measures.
Everybody in the UK interested in mental health and the NHS must see.
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The constituency of
@NorwichChloe
is in
@NorwichCC
and
@BroadlandDC
.
Since 2010-12,
@ONS
tells us:
The suicide rate increase in Norwich is 41.5 per cent, 37 times the national average.
The suicide rate increase in Broadland is 194.2 per cent, 176 times the national average.
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Campaigners supported nurses on the picket line at Hellesdon today. Very good support from passing motorists.
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Hugely important decision from
@MarieELFT
that in the new management model at
@NSFTtweets
Service Directors (managers) will report to Clinical Directors (clinicians).
This will transform the culture of failed managerialism
@NSFTtweets
and put front line services at the forefront
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Please vote tomorrow.
Forget about the froth.
The future of OUR NHS is at stake.
Mental health services have collapsed.
The most in need are being let down.
Even if you don't believe it will make a difference, vote.
Every vote counts.
Your vote might make the difference.
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@rachelbbridge
@RegisteredHere
@cobisBB
@TracyAnnO
@IanK3688
@AndyMoboboKing
@tom_watson
@UKLabour
@TheDemocrats
@labourlewis
You owe
@labourlewis
an apology.
What you claim is totally and utterly untrue.
@labourlewis
worked ***hard*** supporting our campaign to improve mental head services, in ***Norwich***, even before he was an MP.
He has met us and others ***many, many times***.
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Hundreds here tonight to support our campaign and hear
@OwenJones84
and panel of service users, carers and staff
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Graphic: The NHS from surplus to deficit. This is planned and has taken years.
http://t.co/KGZVhaErFs
#NSFTCrisis
http://t.co/oC7RVIQso2
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Meenal Viz, a six-and-a-half month pregnant hospital doctor, decided that she’d had enough. “I just decided that I was not going to sit in silence and watch our colleagues die. I knew that I had to do something.”
Inspirational woman.
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What complete rubbish is this
@NHSEngland
propaganda. Gaslighting on a grand scale. Services are stretched so far that they are discharging or turning away very ill people. Waiting lists for talking therapies are months or even years long.
Feelings like anxiety and depression can affect us all. If you're struggling with your mental health, the NHS can help you get your feet back on the ground.
You can refer yourself or your GP can refer you.
#TalkingTherapies
#HelpUsHelpYou
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We have consistently said that the appointment of champagne charlie
@masonfitzgerald
as £175k per year CEO of failed mental health trust
@NSFTtweets
is a total disgrace.
Top class investigative reporting by
@nikkijfox
and
@mattcprecey
show we were right.
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Perhaps the winds of change really are blowing through
@NSFTtweets
after more than five long years?
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Newsflash:
@NSFTtweets
to reopen sixteen beds!
It is less than one third of the number needed to stop inhumane transportations but it is a start. Until now we've seen denial and bed closures.
Congratulations
@MarieELFT
. Onwards!
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A founder member of our campaign, Terry O’Shea, has died. As a group we mourn the loss of our friend. Our thoughts are with his wife and children at this sad time. Link to online Funeral Service for Terry O'Shea - 30th April 2021 via
@YouTube
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Protest: Against Greed, Mental Health Cuts and NHS Privatisation: ‘No to Branson’: 1130-1200 Thursday 1st March 2018: Carrow Road, Norwich NR1 1JE
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Ipswich march for
#WorldMentalHealthDay2022
tomorrow (9th). Are you going to show Norwich this matters in Suffolk as much as it does in Norfolk?!
#NSFTcrisis
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3 pages in today’s
@EDP24
on deaths at
@NSFTtweets
and our call for a public inquiry and special administration. Without local media reporting on inquests and deaths no one would even know.
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A Norfolk key worker was advised to get tested by 111 this morning.
There are no home testing kits available.
According to the Government, these are the nearest available 'local' drive-through testing centres.
What is going on
@MattHancock
?
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Which hospital chain owned the private hospital to which Peggy Copeland was transported hundreds of miles by
@NSFTtweets
in a minibus, dying on the way back on the M11?
Oh yes,
@cygnethealth
.
The US chain with the catalogue of failings and the troughing directors.
Shameful.
This year Cygnet has:
- had 9 hospitals failed by CQC
- been criticised at inquests into murder & suicide
- been exposed for cruelty in BBC doc
- had staff arrested for abuse
But earnings leapt for its boss (508k to £953k) & all directors (£912k to £2.4m)
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NSFT deaths crisis raised at the UN Disability Committee Geneva today
@NSFTCrisis
@NSFTdeaths
@notsafeft
#CRDP24
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The role of commissioning in the crisis in mental health does not get enough coverage.
@NHSEngland
tries to blame everybody and anybody else but it ran and underfunded the system which was at the heart of the failures which led to these tragedies.
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ITV are showing our demands too.
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As Covid-19 sweeps through wards of the extremely vulnerable at
@NSFTtweets
, the worst mental health trust in the country demonstrates its understanding of the importance of social distancing in keeping people safe in Norfolk and Suffolk.
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Campaigners are travelling to Parliament to meet
@mariacaulfield
@labourlewis
@GeorgeFreemanMP
@JeromeMayhew
@tomhunt1988
@jcartlidgemp
@duncancbaker
re largest deaths crisis in history of NHS.
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Front line staff who see patients and have not been tested for Covid-19, some refused testing by
@NSFTtweets
managers, have been in touch to register their disgust that 'Director of Operations'
@AndyMack00
, who doesn't see patients and works from home, gets a Covid-19 test first
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Devastatingly sad story. Siblings with enduring mental illness who seem to have slipped out of mental health services a decade ago. Their father cared for them but died. Whilst grieving they died (one by suicide). 1.
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So, not new money at all.
Worth reading if you're interested in NHS finance.
BBC reports extra £1bn for NHS capital spending this yr. There’s a catch: The £1bn is cash hospitals and other NHS trusts already have but have been forbidden to spend. They earned it last yr in incentive payments for cutting their costs [thread, 1/8ish]
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Remember this?
We made a Freedom of Information Request.
Every permanent consultant psychiatrist at
@NSFTtweets
is on the Specialist Register, i.e. qualified.
50 per cent of the locum consultant psychiatrists at
@NSFTtweets
are not on the Specialist Register, i.e. unqualified.
NSFT Fact for the Day
#21
@warren_nsft
tells
@susiefowlerwatt
that the difference with locum consultants is that they work through an agency, that they are 'fully qualified'.
This is untrue.
Locum consultant psychiatrists do not have to be on the Specialist Register
#NSFTFact
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If true, absolutely disgraceful.
It appears that morality is regressing alongside income distributions and social and economic mobility.
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The mental health scandal at
@NSFTtweets
features on national
@BBCNews
at Six.
How much longer can the mental health Mid-Staffs be allowed to continue? We have already endured five years of misery.
What are
@MattHancock
@CareQualityComm
@NHSEngland
and
@NHSImprovement
doing?
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Campaigners have taken a break after the successful Marches for Mental Health.
We’d like to thank all of the people who joined us in Norwich and Ipswich to make our voices heard. Also all those who couldn’t attend but supported us on social media or in their community
Thank you
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Absolutely disgraceful! How dare they waste this amount of public money to polish their s**t services and protect their reputations. Could have paid for 10 more nurses. SU suffer as usual. Board must go!
@NSFTtweets
must be disbanded.
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Yet another gut wrenching story of
@NSFTtweets
callous cruel incompetence. Not fit for anything.
#statutoryindependentpublicinquiry
NOE
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If this is Right Care Right Person, the architects of this ridiculous idea need investigating before further tragedies occur.
But it’s much easier to put all the blame on the lowest grade staff.
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These are some of the placards campaigners have made for our protest tomorrow. One of them could be yours.
Help us fight for decent mental health services.
Make your voice heard.
See Facebook event
or web:
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We are constantly hearing from
@NSFTtweets
front line staff that mental health services are in complete meltdown. Here's an example received yesterday.
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It was scandalous before, but beyond dangerous now with Covid-19, that NONE of the EIGHT people responsible for NHS mental health services in Norwich and North, South and West Norfolk is a doctor.
Clinical decisions taken without medical input at
@NSFTtweets
during a pandemic.
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BREAKING: UN announces UK government has FAILED disabled people
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BBC News - Coronavirus: 'We woke up in the morning and he was gone'
Steven Pearson, mental health nurse, RIP.
His daughter Bethany is a credit to him.
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Please come along today (8th) to show your support for mental health. Assemble 11am at Chapelfield in Norwich. March via route on map. Finish at Chapelfield for speeches and music. We have placards or bring your own.
#NSFTcrisis
#LostLivesNSFT
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Shame you missed the March for Mental Health yesterday
@tomhunt1988
You missed opportunity to speak to some of your constituents let down by failing mental health services.
@NSFTtweets
4th time in Special measures in last 6 years. They acknowledge Services r unsafe. Time to act
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Yes,
@Dr_Mike_Spencer
is a Consultant Child Psychiatrist.
But your child can only see him if you can pay him more than £100 an hour as HE ISN'T A NHS DOCTOR despite the taxpayer training him at a cost of £250,000.
Can you trust a private doctor with the NHS?
No.
#misleading
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Excellent piece summarising the ongoing and unresolved scandal that is very present and very real at NSFT.
Please read and share widely.
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We are meeting
@CareQualityComm
as part of its inspection of
@NSFTtweets
on Wednesday 26 September at
@MaidsHeadHotel
in Norwich. JOIN US at main meeting beginning at 1830 or for a chat beforehand if you prefer at 1730. No
@NSFTtweets
gatekeepers or minders, plenty of support.
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Locked away: the national scandal you may have missed
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Message just received from one of the most senior clinicians at
@NSFTtweets
"Well done! Now I might decide to apply for a CD post. It did look like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic with the previous plan."
Others have said similar. Hugely important to clinical engagement
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Liars, liars, pants on fire
As we said all along.
Why was the so-called
@NSFTPeople
Participation Lead
@Margare15354358
silent about this scandal?
@NSFTtweets
admits discharge of 300 young people from waiting list at
@youth_NSFT
was not ‘clerical error’
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Some SU have had to resort to paying for their therapies. When they told NSFT this, the response was to remove them from psychological therapies waiting lists. When SU paying from benefits it’s not sustainable long term. How to discourage openness and honesty!
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Please vote TODAY!
Forget about the froth.
The future of OUR NHS is at stake.
Mental health services have collapsed.
The most in need are being let down.
Even if you don't believe it will make a difference, vote.
Every vote counts.
Your vote might make the difference.
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Such a cruel and unnecessary death. RIP
Bed closures lead to deaths. We’ve been saying this for 10 long years. When will you listen?
@NHSEngland
@CareQualityComm
@DHSCgovuk
@VictoriaAtkins
@mariacaulfield
@SNEEICB_IES
@SNEEICB_WS
@nandwics
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The CQC have offered to meet with us on Tuesday 23rd August in the auditorium at The Forum, Millennium Plain, Norwich, NR2 1TF from 19-00 until 21-00. The meeting is not part of an inspection.
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Former 'Professor' and Chief Executive of
@NSFTtweets
@warren_nsft
accidentally tells truth to
@BBCLookEast
"What you're saying is that you'll appoint people who aren't as qualified as they should be?"
"Yes."
Why? Because management treats clinicians and patients with contempt
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Would a clinically-led mental health trust look like this?
Norfolk and Suffolk have 2.98% England's population.
@NSFTtweets
has:
just 1.8% England's NHS mental health (MH) doctors
only 2.5% England's NHS MH nurses
but 14.3% England's NHS MH managers and very senior managers.
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Just as coronavirus cases increase, Norfolk and Waveney STP is closing City Reach, the dedicated primary care services for the voiceless and most in need, such as the homeless, people with addictions, sex workers, etc. in Norwich.
An irresponsible decision before, more so now.
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A Stitch-up is not Safe: Campaign writes to
@CareQualityComm
regarding current
@NSFTtweets
inspection.
Read our letter here:
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@labourlewis
sent a poignant message to marchers. Some Tory MPs support the Campaign’s aims. Is yours one of them? Write to your MP. Find out if they are prepared to act on behalf constituents in mental distress.
Campaigners marched around Norwich ahead of World Mental Health Day to demand better services for the region.
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This is great.
But cuckooing is out of control.
The problems are:
- Not enough PCs
- Not enough CPNs and reduced home visits by mental health services
- Cuts to housing support for mental illness
- Cuts to dual diagnosis and addiction services
- Discharging of people in need
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Newsflash:
Mental health services and
@NSFTtweets
in crisis feature tomorrow morning on
@BBCBreakfast
on
@BBCOne
.
Also with Adrian Chiles at 1130 on
@bbc5live
.
Watch and listen.
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It is disgraceful that NOBODY from
@NSFTtweets
, Norfolk and Waveney STP or
@PHE_uk
would talk to
@BBCNorfolk
about Norfolk having the largest increase in the suicide rate of any county in England and Wales.
28 per cent.
25 times the national average
130 extra deaths since 2012
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@nikkijfox
We would expect nothing else. Corporate image
@NSFTtweets
is more important than
@NSFTdeaths
@NSFTCrisis
We need functioning mental health services with good governance, that's why we're campaigning for NSFT to be disbanded and replaced
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Fact check:
80 new beds are planned at Hellesdon at the bottom of the site.
But all the existing wards will close and the top of the site is to be sold to property developers.
More than 140 NHS mental health beds have closed since
@norwichchloe
became MP for Norwich North.
Vote for me on Thursday to re-elect a committed and hardworking MP. For a determined and campaigning MP. For an MP who gets results and delivers for
#NorwichNorth
. For an MP with a plan.
On Thursday,
#VoteConservative
#GE2019
#MyPlan
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@PHE_uk
What if you need more help than
#EveryMindMatters
?
At
@NSFTtweets
, in the constituency of
@MattHancock
, the vacancy rate for psychiatrists is 30.7 per cent, for mental health nurses it is 14.7 per cent. If you need a bed, you might be transported 250 miles.
The NHS needs money.
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@NorwichChloe
Fact check:
80 new beds are planned at Hellesdon at the bottom of the site.
But the existing wards will close and the top of the site is to be sold to property developers.
More than 140 NHS mental health beds have closed since
@norwichchloe
became MP for Norwich North.
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We have been told that the new 111 service involves a 45 minute wait to press 2 followed by an hour and a half wait to speak to a human.
This is not acceptable. When will it be sorted?
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We hear
@itvanglia
are running a report about the extremist, insulting and dangerous views of the husband of
@NorwichChloe
, MP for Norwich North and minister in the
@CabinetOffice
. That Covid-19 is a 'mental illness'.
Shameful when the HQ of
@NSFTtweets
is in her constituency.
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Mental health crisis is front page of
@EDP24
as inspectors from
@CareQualityComm
arrive at failing
@NSFTtweets
in Norfolk.
‘It destroys lives’ - Teen’s dismay at 18-month mental health delay after boyfriend dies in crash
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You are not the only person who endures this distressing ‘support’ via the REST helpline. Arbitrary time limits and restrictions that change on a whim. Enforced periods of ‘reflection’. Nothing therapeutic in this approach just a power trip that makes people feel abandoned.
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@RestNorwich
@NSFTCrisis
Back under REST support line after an enforced 3 week break. However calls are being limited to 20 minutes as dictated by triage manager Kim. So it reaches the 20 minute mark and I'm cut off mid conversation to be told that they have to let me go. How
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Another private destination for the transportation of people in crisis is closed as unsafe by
@CareQualityComm
, this time run by
@cygnethealth
.
We demand high quality NHS beds not private rubbish.
New inpatients banned at mental health unit rated unsafe
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"The difference being that
@asda
does deliver. If the supermarket had been run like test and trace it would have gone out of business years ago"
@didoharding
is renamed Typhoid Dido.
Not exactly an advert for
@HarvardHBS
.
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Uproar amongst front line
@NSFTtweets
staff this weekend after discovering that the Band 8d Service Director of Norwich and North Care Group, Andy Mack, who doesn't see patients, travelled to Yarmouth during the working week to get vaccinated against Covid when nothing for them.
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Well said
@labourlewis
“NSFT is an unaccountable and secretive organisation that clearly has genuine issues with frank and honest discourse with the public” 1/2
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Double spread in
@EDP24
the reality of the dire
@CQC
report spelt out by two bereaved families
@CarolineAldrid5
and
@NickFulcher6
They are two courageous people who speak out about the
#LostLivesNSFT
Over 9 years we have supported many many more. Most families grieve silently.
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BBC News - Norfolk and Suffolk mental health trust crisis care 'not safe'
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Local journalism has been crucial to shine a light on the local mental health crisis throughout.
Important that
@EDP24
gave resources for a reporter to attend each day of Peggy Copeman's inquest & have led coverage for the last 7 years with tenacity
@David_Powles
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We have placed
@CarolineAldrid5
heart for Tim because she cannot be here. For Tim and all the other People like him, we will not give up.
#HeartMemorialNSFT
#LostLivesNSFT
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When those in charge stop defending “The Trust’s” reputation and start thinking about how their incompetence is affecting service users we might, a very big might, get some improvements.
Too many self-obsessed ppl in high places. Too little thought for service users.
Just despair for our mental health services and the patients that need them. Consistent leadership is so important. Time to disband the Trust. Have a Trust for each county & start again. Needs proper financial investment not platitudes & reviews.
@NSFTCrisis
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Do listen to
@CarolineAldrid5
talking about
@NSFTtweets
She is backing our call for a public inquiry into the deaths and for the trust to be put into special administration.
I will be in
@891Radio4
@BBCWorldatOne
today (some point between 1 and 1.45) in conversation with
@ZoeBillingham
. We will be talking about
#mentalhealth
#deaths
@NSFTtweets
and Tim’s story (
#HeDiedWaiting
).
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A front line nurse at
@NSFTtweets
writes in response to the article below:
"I'm quite nervous about sending this. I just wanted to say thank you for highlighting the efforts of the front line staff given the limited resources we have. The management is shocking here."
EDP: Young people face five month waiting lists for mental health support at
@NSFTtweets
See:
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What a lovely portrait photograph that captures the kindness and beauty of the human being which is
@CarolineAldrid5
.
We're so proud of
@CarolineAldrid5
.
Please read her thoughtful book.
There is an article in
@EDP24
about
#HeDiedWaiting
. I think it really captures my motivation in writing a book that can be used to support learning and change.
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