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Film highlights the reality of living with dementia
Tuning In To Dementia
8:56am Wednesday 27th November 2013 in News By Kate Liptrot, Health Reporter
The premiere of the film Tuning In To Dementia, with, at the front, Tony Neal, whose late wife Jenny featured in the film, next to Branda Pearson and Muriel Kelly, alongside other key people involved in the project.
A THOUGHT-provoking film which asks young people to consider the reality of living with dementia was premiered at a York school last night.
Starring students from Joseph Rowntree School, community members and some residents with dementia from Hartrigg Oaks, Tuning In To Dementia, aims to increase dementia awareness and build better understanding of the condition from an early age.
Over the next year it will be shown to 2,000 York secondary school pupils in personal, social and health education lessons and could then be rolled out nationally alongside a lesson plan.
Hundreds attend first mental health campaign meeting in Norwich
Patients and NHS workers were urged to lobby commissioners and MPs at the launch of a public campaign to save mental health services in Norfolk and Suffolk.
Ian Gibson speaks in the crowded room at the Vauxhall Centre as the campaign to save mental health services is launched. Picture: Denise Bradley
Adam Gretton Health correspondent adam.gretton@archant.co.uk
Monday, November 25, 2013
9:13 PM
There was standing room only as hundreds of people packed into a room at the Vauxhall Centre in Norwich tonight for the first Campaign to Save Mental Health Services in Norfolk and Suffolk meeting.
The campaign was launched by front-line workers as a result of ongoing cuts by Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT), which is planning to cut £40m from its budget and reduce the number of inpatient beds by 20pc by 2016.
Officials from the campaign called on the government and Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG), which control local health budgets, to invest more in mental health services to put a stop to incidents where patients have to be placed on wards outside of Norfolk and Suffolk because there are not enough beds.
