The region's troubled mental health trust is still not meeting the needs of its patients, according to a damning new report. This comes after coroners in Norfolk and Suffolk issued three prevention of future death notices this year alone, citing a lack of mental health beds as the cause of unnecessary deaths. Previously branded the worst mental health trust in the country, the longstanding struggles of the Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) are well-publicised.
Now, a fresh report from the Campaign to save mental health services in Norfolk and Suffolk has found that it continues to fall short. Members of the Campaign to save mental health services in Norfolk and Suffolk (Image: Brittany Woodman/ Archant) The pressure group has conducted an in-depth study into the experiences of people in the region with poor mental health, their carers and loved ones. It found several troubling themes where services were unable to meet the demand of people in desperate need of support.
These themes included: Mark Harrison, chairman of the campaign (Image: Newsquest) Mark Harrison, the campaign's chairman, said the report's findings highlighted a desperate need for the new government to better fund mental health services and make the sector a priority for its ministers. He said: "The responsibility for failing mental health services in Norfolk and Suffolk has now been passed to the new Labour ministers for health and mental health. "We are calling on health secretary Wes Streeting.