Category Archives: mental health
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.
The mentally ill are still neglected and stigmatised
The mentally ill are still neglected and stigmatised – just as I found they were 10 years ago
The Schizophrenia Commission’s report, published today, is an indictment of the way we treat some of our most vulnerable citizens. Jeremy Laurance laments a lost decade in mental healthcare
Wednesday 14 November 2012
Ten years ago I spent six months touring the country observing the care provided to people with mental illness for a book I was writing. Pure Madness, published in 2003, described a system “driven by fear”, in which risk reduction and protection of the public was the priority, rather than the care of patients. The public and political focus on the tiny numbers who posed a risk had distracted attention from the “huge majority of frightened, disturbed people whose suffering remains largely hidden”, I wrote.
Don’t just blame staff – companies must be ‘accountable’ for care home failings
Minister pledges new rules to ensure firms which fail vulnerable patients are punished
Nina Lakhani
Tuesday 13 November 2012
Private companies which get public money to run care homes will be made “corporately accountable” for poor standards, the Care Services minister has pledged.
Norman Lamb said he would address regulatory gaps to ensure there were consequences for firms which failed vulnerable patients in hospitals or care homes. At present, care home staff and managers are more likely to be held accountable for abuse than the companies, executives and investors that actually profit from failing homes.
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