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Raised fears over mental health care cuts across Norfolk and Suffolk
Protesters in Lowestoft raise fears over mental health care cuts across Norfolk and Suffolk
By mark boggis
Monday, November 19, 2012
8:32 AM
Former Waveney MP, Bob Blizzard speaking at a rally to sending a strong message to the Government and the Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust to think again on proposals for massive cuts to local mental health care services. Picture: James Bass
Defiant cries of “no” echoed out around Lowestoft town centre as about 100 people turned out for a rally to oppose the proposed cuts to mental health care services across Norfolk and Suffolk
Sending out a strong message to NHS chiefs, there was widespread anger as they raised their voices to hit out at the proposals.
Former Waveney MP Bob Blizzard organised the protest on Saturday following the announcement by the Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust that would eventually lead to jobs being axed and beds cut.
Trial could cut agonising wait for dementia diagnosis
Government-backed assessment service trial will see Cambridge Cognition’s state-of-the-art diagnostic technologies placed in the community
The traditional path to diagnosing dementia is long and slow, often taking 18 months of agonised waiting.
Now this could be set to change with a government-backed trial of a dementia assessment service that aims to cut this to just three months.
It is being called a “paradigm shift” as it depends on placing state-of-the-art diagnostic technologies in the community where people can access them quickly and easily.
According to senior lecturer and honorary consultant neurologist Dr Dennis Chan, this trial – dubbed the Brain Health Centre initiative – will accelerate access to the kind of evaluation currently available in only regional centres of excellence in hospital clinics.
Safeguarding adults: how do we protect the most vulnerable?
All staff, from cleaners to chief executives, should know how to raise concerns over abuse and ensure they are listened to
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Keith Brown
- Guardian Professional,
While there is a sense of some justice that carers from the notorious Winterbourne View hospital are now in jail, there is still one terrible tragedy that remains unaddressed.
How could there be so many people working in the hospital who did not raise the alarm? Moreover, how does a culture like that start in a hospital or care setting in the first place and who is looking at the leadership model that allow it to happen?
Today, Bournemouth University is hosting a conference on safeguarding adults. We were told that those working in social care no longer have time for conferences but had hoped 200 people might attend. Instead, we closed the list at 300 people and have another 70 on a waiting list.
