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CAMHS Bed Shortage BBC Look East
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An excellent piece of journalism looking at the bed shortage for young people. The BBC visits an oversubscribed child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) unit in Essex, The St Aubyn Centre, built by North Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. • Sadly, Norfolk Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) was the trust with the biggest cut in budget for CAMHS in the entire country in the latest national benchmarking - a cut of three times the national average. NSFT is the second worst performing trust in the entire country for CAMHS re-referrals - again three times the national average. NSFT has the highest number of formal CAMHS complaints in the country. NSFT has the third highest number of incidents of actual physical violence to CAMHS patients and has the second highest number of incidents of actual physical violence to staff - six times the national average. It is the worst, and seven times the national average, for incidents of use of restraint. NSFT came out as the fifth worst Trust of the 51 who responded to a BBC Freedom of Information Request about the number of children across the country being admitted to adult mental health units. In 2011 NSFT sent 13 under 18s to an adult mental health unit rising to 16 for both 2012 and 2013. All these benchmarks indicate a service and staff under intolerable stress. Should we allow our young people to be treated like this? The answer is no! • Find out more about the crisis: • http://norfolksuffolkmentalhealthcris... • / defendmentalhealthservices • @NSFTCrisis
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