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The service is seeing far more young children with behaviour concerns (Pixabay) Redbridge mental health services are seeing a “very disturbing” rise in under-fives needing treatment during lockdown. At a meeting of Redbridge Council s health and wellbeing board meeting on March 1, one councillor predicted there will be “a tsunami” of young people needing treatment in the coming months due to the pandemic. Redbridge’s mental health service, run by the NHS North East London Foundation Trust, is still struggling to recruit enough staff to run the service, even after correcting its “historically” low funding. The council’s integrated care director, Bob Edwards, reassured the board that the service should still be “reasonably well-resourced” to tackle the anticipated rise in referrals.
Victoria Munro, Local Democracy Reporting Service
Published:
10:00 AM March 3, 2021
Cllr Joyce Ryan warned: With young people, mental health is going to be a tsunami.
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Redbridge mental health services are seeing a “disturbing” rise in under-fives needing treatment during lockdown.
At a meeting of Redbridge Council’s health and wellbeing board meeting on March 1, one councillor predicted there will be “a tsunami” of young people needing treatment in the coming months due to the pandemic.
Redbridge’s mental health service, run by the NHS North East London Foundation Trust, is still struggling to recruit enough staff to run the service, even after correcting its “historically” low funding.
Mason Fitzgerald is being investigated by the NSFT after claiming to have a Master of Laws degree when he never graduated
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Mr Fitzgerald has since changed his LinkedIn profile to state that he never graduated from the university, but up until that point claimed on the networking site, as well as in official NHS documents and on a medical research paper, to have an LLM.
The chair of the NSFT, Marie Gabriel, wrote in an email to staff that the current chief executive, Jonathan Warren, who was due to go on holiday at the end of March before retiring, would now “stay at the trust to provide stability and continuity leadership” while a review took place.
Mason Fitzgerald is being investigated by the NSFT after claiming to have a Master of Laws degree when he never graduated
- Credit: NSFT
Mr Fitzgerald has since changed his LinkedIn profile to state that he never graduated from the university, but up until that point claimed on the networking site, as well as in official NHS documents and on a medical research paper, to have an LLM.
The chair of the NSFT, Marie Gabriel, wrote in an email to staff that the current chief executive, Jonathan Warren, who was due to go on holiday at the end of March before retiring, would now “stay at the trust to provide stability and continuity leadership” while a review took place.