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    1. Everyday activities and developing independence
    2. When to share
    3. Food and Mealtimes
    4. A new Electronic Patient Record (EPR)
      1. Electronic Patient Record (EPR) FAQs
    5. Bereavement support
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    11. Care planning
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    13. DIALOG+
    14. LISTEN
    15. Mental health conditions
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    17. Managing your information
    18. Pharmacy and medication
    19. Physical health
    20. Keeping you safe from infection
    21. Winter wellbeing
    22. Guidance on phishing emails and scams
    23. Social Media
    24. Safeguarding
  2. Our services
    1. Adults
    2. Assessment
    3. Autism
    4. Community
    5. Hospital liaison
    6. Inpatient wards
    7. Learning disability
    8. Mother and baby
    9. Children and young people
    10. Older people
    11. Rehabilitation
    12. Secure and forensic
    13. Therapeutic
    14. Wellbeing
    15. All services
  3. Carers
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    3. Carers Charter
    4. Contact the Carers Lead team
    5. Money and benefits
    6. The Care Act 2014
    7. Triangle of Care
    8. Young carers
  4. Work with us
    1. Join our Mental Health team
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    2. Our vacancies
    3. Your recruitment journey
    4. Volunteering
    5. Work experience
    6. Why Norfolk and Suffolk?
    7. Armed Forces Covenant
    8. Apprenticeships
    9. Development opportunities
    10. NHS Professionals (bank staff)
    11. A career in Learning Disability Nursing
  5. Get involved
    1. Feedback on plans for the Upper Plateau at Hellesdon Hospital
    2. TALK Awards
    3. Safer Kinder Better Awards 2024
    4. Service User and Carer Council
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    6. People Participation
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    7. Our charitable funds
    8. All to play for (Football)
  6. Self-help guides
  7. News and events
    1. Mental Health and You podcast
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    3. Parent workshops
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  8. About us
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      2. Equality Delivery System Report 2022
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    8. Freedom To Speak Up
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      1. What we spend and how we spend it
    10. Partners
    11. Green Light Toolkit
    12. Our locality structure
    13. Peer Support Workers
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      2. Meet our Peer Support Workers
    14. NHS Provider Licence
    15. East of England, NHS Specialist Mental Health, Provider Collaborative
    16. Smokefree
  9. For professionals
    1. Professionals linking to crisis services
    2. How professionals can contact our services
    3. Self-referral form for Norfolk and Waveney under 18 eating disorder service
    4. ARFID Professional Consultation Request Form
    5. Advice and guidance for patients in Norfolk and Waveney
    6. Knowledge and Understanding Framework
    7. Staff Support service
    8. Family Therapy Training
  10. Research
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    3. Become Involved
    4. Researching Together Network
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