Crisis at Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust

[maureenho]

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The crisis in mental health care at Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) again features in the media. This led the itv ANGLIA NEWS at lunchtime and features campaiger and patient David Walter talking about how the campaign is addressing life and death issues and how mental health services can help people have a life worth living.

[maureenho]

Mental Health Services are in Severe Crisis

Join us in marching on Norman Lamb on 24th & 25th May!
Norman Lamb refuses to take responsibility for his crisis:


    cuts to psychiatric beds, so that patients are being admitted hundreds of miles away from home
    cuts to community and crisis teams, so that vulnerable people in the community are not receiving the care they need
    key specialist teams abolished
    social care cut
    delays in getting help to people in crisis
    suicide rates increasing for the first time in 10 years


Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) blames the Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs).
The CCGs blame NSFT.
Norman Lamb blames everyone except himself and claims he is ‘campaigning’ for ‘parity of esteem.’
But Norman Lamb is the Minister of State for Care and Support at the Department of Health.
Mental Health is his responsibility but services in Norfolk and Suffolk are a disgrace.
ASSEMBLE & PROTEST 0900-0930 on the pavement outside HELLESDON HOSPITAL ON SATURDAY 24TH MAY
We are making a difference!

http://norfolksuffolkmentalhealthcrisis ... rman-lamb/

[annie]

When is Mental Health going to stop being the poor relation in health care? Services throughout the country seem to be inadaquate