Tag Archives: mental health
Mum launches fight for carers' rights
First published Wednesday 26 November 2014 in News Northwich Guardian: Photograph of the Author by Gina Bebbington, Chief Reporter
A MUM and campaigner who has been a full time carer for 40 years is using Carers Rights Day to raise awareness of the problems she, and many others like her, face on a daily basis.
Moulton woman Dorothy Jump has cared for her son Christian since he was born.
Norfolk and Suffolk mental health patients in beds miles from home
Up to 50 mental health patients in Norfolk and Suffolk had to be sent to other parts of England last week because of a shortage of beds and a shortfall in funding.
In June Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt criticised the “unacceptable” distances Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust (NSFT) patients had to travel for beds.
The NSFT said the trust was committed to cutting the use of out-of-area beds.
It cut the number from 34 to six by September, but it has gone up to 50.
Norfolk and Suffolk mental health cuts ‘devastating’
Norfolk and Suffolk’s NHS mental health services merged in 2012 and must save about £40m over four years
Funding cuts in Norfolk and Suffolk show the government is failing to put mental and physical health on an equal footing, campaigners say.
Mainstream hospitals in the two counties have seen budgets rise by 15% since 2010, while mental health service funding has fallen by 3%.
The Campaign to Save Mental Health Services in Norfolk and Suffolk said the cuts were “devastating”.
