Norfolk & Suffolk Mental Health Crisis – The radical restructure is the end of hope for a better NSFT

Dodgy Dan Dalton desperately tries to force doctors to take the blame for the NSFT beds crisis and to delay or prevent admissions

On Friday of last week, the Chief Medical Officer of Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT), dodgy Dan Dalton, sent out this email: Why is dodgy Dan Dalton demanding […]

BBC News: Covid-19: Patient gets virus after 240-mile hospital move

Nikki Fox, Health Correspondent of the BBC, reports: A woman said she was “very angry” after her elderly mother caught Covid-19 following a move to a hospital hundreds of miles […]

NOTW: Mental Health Change Managers Band 7 x 2

This week there are two identical twin Nonjobs of The Week (NOTW) as Band 7 Change Managers ‘working’ for the ‘delightful’ Mark Payne of Norfolk and Waveney Clinical Commissioning Group […]

Knowing me, knowing you, Aha: NSFT’s Annual Report and Accounts 2019-20

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) spent a staggering £6.9m transporting patients to Out of Area beds in 2019-20 because it doesn’t have enough of its own. That’s more […]

EDP: SPECIAL REPORT: ‘Failed and forgotten’ – are a generation of our children being let down?

In a Special Report for the Eastern Daily Press, Jessica Frank-Keyes writes: A generation of Norfolk’s children are at risk of being “failed” and “forgotten” as issues with already struggling […]

Beds Crisis: How NSFT managers have designed bureaucratic obstacles to prevent or delay mental health admissions

It has long been clear that Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) tries to manipulate its inappropriate out of area placement (OAP) bed statistics when the Care Quality Commission […]

EDP: Mental health trust blasted for ‘shocking’ fresh rise in out of area placements

Jessica Frank-Keyes of the Eastern Daily Press reports: The region’s mental health trust has been criticised for a “shocking” lack of beds as data revealed a fresh rise in patients […]

Report reveals mental health trust ‘culture of bullying’ as public excluded from meeting

Jessica Frank-Keyes of the Eastern Daily Press reports: The region’s mental health trust has been criticised for discussing in private a report into its staff culture of “bullying and lack […]

The Peter Principle

The Peter principle is a concept in management developed by Laurence J. Peter, which observes that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to their “level of incompetence”: an employee is promoted based on their success in […]

NSFTcrisis: Who we are and why we do what we do

A couple of weeks ago Jim Mortram kindly let us take over his twitter feed for a week. The posts tell a story about our campaign so we thought we […]
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Enough is Enough!

How do we know when enough is enough and it’s time for radical and immediate action to be taken at NSFT? When reports hit the media about 140 doctors sending […]
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Call for Public Inquiry at NSFT

Campaigners meet with MPs to call for an independent statutory public inquiry into the deaths at NSFT On Tuesday 5th July 2022 some of our campaign members went to London […]
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Call for a public inquiry: Lobbying MPs

Following on from the CQC report which once again rated NSFT as ‘inadequate’, our campaign is calling for a statutory public inquiry. We think that there needs to be an […]
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Lost Lives NSFT: Campaigners remember the people who have died because of failings in mental health services in Norfolk and Suffolk

For bereaved families, the consequences of inadequate mental health services are with them forever. Over a thousand people (see figures below) have died since the Campaign to Save Mental Health […]
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A call for urgent action: Open letter to CQC and NHSE & I about NSFT

The CQC have been inspecting NSFT and some of our members were able to meet with the Inspection Manager to express their concerns. It was decided by the wider membership […]
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Peggy Copeman: A much loved Norfolk woman who died because of the beds crisis at NSFT

(written with permission of Peggy Copeman’s family) The CCTV footage of Peggy Copeman being wheeled down the hospital corridor as she left Cygnet hospital can be viewed in this article […]
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Tribute to Terry O’Shea – our friend and founder member

On 30th April 2021, we said goodbye to our friend and founder member of our campaign, Terry O’Shea. The funeral service was beautiful and a fitting farewell. Due to Covid […]
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Why we are worried about who will be next CEO of NSFT. Includes a template letter for concerned people to use.

The Norfolk and Suffolk Mental Health Crisis campaign have been expressing concerns about the leadership at NSFT for years. Five years of being in special measures – two of these […]
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NSFT PFD – Report 2: Sebastian Davies 2012

Here is the second PFD (Prevention of Future Death) report, in our series of 30 that have been issued by Coroners, relating to NSFT since 2012. We are publishing these […]
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Faking it … when your qualifications are as real as your mate Big Bird.

Were we surprised by the news today that Mason ‘Champagne Charlie’ Fitzgerald has been caught out for having fake qualifications? Not really. We already knew he did not have the […]
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NSFT PFD – Report 1: Matthew Dunham 2012

Our Campaign has analysed the Prevention of Future Death (PFD) reports, issued by coroners, that relate to NSFT since the disastrous ‘radical redesign’ in 2012. A Freedom of Information request […]
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He Died Waiting: The story of Tim – who was one of hundreds of deaths at NSFT

He Died Waiting; Learning the lessons – a bereaved mother’s view of mental health services, by Caroline Aldridge, is a ‘must read’ book for anyone with an interest in mental health. […]
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Dodgy Dan Dalton desperately tries to force doctors to take the blame for the NSFT beds crisis and to delay or prevent admissions

On Friday of last week, the Chief Medical Officer of Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT), dodgy Dan Dalton, sent out this email: Why is dodgy Dan Dalton demanding […]
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BBC News: Covid-19: Patient gets virus after 240-mile hospital move

Nikki Fox, Health Correspondent of the BBC, reports: A woman said she was “very angry” after her elderly mother caught Covid-19 following a move to a hospital hundreds of miles […]
Bed Crisis, Campaigning, Car Crash, Community Crisis, Dangerous, Deaths Crisis, Kept in the dark, Knowing me, knowing you, aha!, Meltdown, NSFT Cuts, NSFT Incompetence, Press, Questions for the Board, Radical Restructure, Revolving Doors, Toxic Trust
NOTW: Mental Health Change Managers Band 7 x 2

This week there are two identical twin Nonjobs of The Week (NOTW) as Band 7 Change Managers ‘working’ for the ‘delightful’ Mark Payne of Norfolk and Waveney Clinical Commissioning Group […]
NSFT's Nonjob of the Week, Revolving Doors, STP
Knowing me, knowing you, Aha: NSFT’s Annual Report and Accounts 2019-20

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) spent a staggering £6.9m transporting patients to Out of Area beds in 2019-20 because it doesn’t have enough of its own. That’s more […]
Bed Crisis, Campaigning, Car Crash, Community Crisis, Dangerous, Fantasy Island, In NSFT's words, Knowing me, knowing you, aha!, Meltdown, NSFT - A Warning from History, NSFT Incompetence, NSFT Masterclass, PR Crisis, Questions for the Board, Special Measures, Toxic Trust
EDP: ‘Unforgivable’ – Mental health trust allowed court hospital order to expire

Jessica Frank-Keyes, Local Democracy reporter of the Eastern Daily Press, writes: Paperwork errors at Norfolk’s mental health trust have risen by more than a third in the past year, it […]
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EDP: SPECIAL REPORT: ‘Failed and forgotten’ – are a generation of our children being let down?

In a Special Report for the Eastern Daily Press, Jessica Frank-Keyes writes: A generation of Norfolk’s children are at risk of being “failed” and “forgotten” as issues with already struggling […]
CAMHS Crisis, Community Crisis, CQC Inspection, Dangerous, Knowing me, knowing you, aha!, Meltdown, New Ways of Shirking, NSFT Cuts, NSFT Incompetence, Press, Questions for the Board, Radical Restructure, Special Measures, STP, Toxic Trust
Beds Crisis: How NSFT managers have designed bureaucratic obstacles to prevent or delay mental health admissions

It has long been clear that Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) tries to manipulate its inappropriate out of area placement (OAP) bed statistics when the Care Quality Commission […]
Bed Crisis, Campaigning, CQC Inspection, Crisis Team Crisis, Dangerous, Deaths Crisis, In NSFT's words, Knowing me, knowing you, aha!, Meltdown, NSFT Cuts, NSFT Incompetence, NSFT Masterclass, Questions for the Board, s136 Crisis, Special Measures, Toxic Trust
EDP: Mental health trust blasted for ‘shocking’ fresh rise in out of area placements

Jessica Frank-Keyes of the Eastern Daily Press reports: The region’s mental health trust has been criticised for a “shocking” lack of beds as data revealed a fresh rise in patients […]
Bed Crisis, Campaigning, CQC Inspection, Dangerous, Deaths Crisis, Dis the CQC, Kept in the dark, Knowing me, knowing you, aha!, Meltdown, NSFT Cuts, NSFT Incompetence, NSFT Masterclass, Press, Questions for the Board, Radical Restructure, Revolving Doors, Toxic Trust
Report reveals mental health trust ‘culture of bullying’ as public excluded from meeting

Jessica Frank-Keyes of the Eastern Daily Press reports: The region’s mental health trust has been criticised for discussing in private a report into its staff culture of “bullying and lack […]
Campaigning, Car Crash, Discrimination, Kept in the dark, Knowing me, knowing you, aha!, NSFT Incompetence, NSFT Masterclass, PR Crisis, Press, Questions for the Board, Recruitment Crisis, Toxic Trust
The Peter Principle

The Peter principle is a concept in management developed by Laurence J. Peter, which observes that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to their “level of incompetence”: an employee is promoted based on their success in […]
Fantasy Island, Knowing me, knowing you, aha!, NSFT Incompetence, NSFT Masterclass, NSFT's Nonjob of the Week, Radical Restructure, Recruitment Crisis, Revolving Doors, Stitch-up, Toxic Trust, Where are the TSSers now?
CAMHS Crisis: What has been happening to waiting lists for children and young people at NSFT?

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) sent dishonest letters to hundreds of children and young people on waiting lists. NSFT claims that the dishonest discharge letters were a ‘mistake’ […]
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Video: BBC Look East: NSFT sends dishonest discharge letters to more than 300 children and young people using Covid-19 as an excuse

This BBC Look East report by Health Correspondent Nikki Fox exposes abuse of the Covid-19 epidemic by Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) as a shameful excuse to send […]
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CAMHS Crisis: The shameful discharge letters sent to more than 300 young people abusing the Covid-19 epidemic

These shameful letters sent by Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) abused the Covid-19 epidemic as an excuse to discharge 300+ children and young people from waiting lists at […]
CAMHS Crisis, Car Crash, Community Crisis, CQC Inspection, Dangerous, Dis the CQC, Kept in the dark, Knowing me, knowing you, aha!, Meltdown, New Ways of Shirking, NSFT Cuts, NSFT Incompetence, NSFT Masterclass, Press, Questions for the Board, Special Measures, Toxic Trust
CAMHS Crisis: In full: Appalling CQC report into NSFT’s CFYP Youth Services at 80 St Stephen’s

We’ve never read a Care Quality Commission(CQC) inspection report as bad as this. CQC finds that the management of Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust’s (NSFT) mental health services for […]
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CAMHS Crisis: Service Director of NSFT’s Children, Families and Young People’s mental health services, Rob Mack, needs ‘signposting’ – out of the door

Last week, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) published a devastating report into the Youth service based at 80 St Stephen’s in Norwich, which is supposed to support young people in […]
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Press Release: Victory! NSFT to reintroduce Assertive Outreach with £1m investment

UPDATE 06/05/2020: Sadly, this was an April Fool. The quotes from former Professor Jonathan Warren and Marie Gabriel are genuine and accurate, taken from the Board and Governors minutes. Jonathan […]
Campaigning, Community Crisis, Deaths Crisis, In NSFT's words, Knowing me, knowing you, aha!, Press
EDP: Opinion: Why we wanted to get hold of emails from NHS’ communications bosses

Tom Bristow of the Eastern Daily Press explains: I have been writing about problems at our mental health service for this newspaper since 2012. In that time, I have sat […]
Car Crash, CQC Inspection, Dangerous, Deaths Crisis, Dis the CQC, In NSFT's words, Knowing me, knowing you, aha!, Meltdown, NSFT Incompetence, NSFT Masterclass, PR Crisis, Press, Questions for the Board, Radical Restructure, Special Measures, Toxic Trust
EADT: Man killed in A14 collision had just left mental health ward at NSFT

Emily Townsend of the East Anglian Daily Times reports: A 54-year-old man died after being hit by a lorry having only just left the West Suffolk Hospital site in Bury […]
Car Crash, Dangerous, Deaths Crisis, Meltdown, NSFT Incompetence, Press, Questions for the Board, Radical Restructure, Stitch-up, Toxic Trust
EDP: ‘Fobbed off’: Family of grandmother attacked in care home hits out at mental health trust

Tom Bristow of the Eastern Daily Press reports: The son of a dementia patient who died after she was attacked in a care home says he feels “fobbed off” by […]
Bed Crisis, Car Crash, Community Crisis, Dangerous, Deaths Crisis, Friends, Kept in the dark, Knowing me, knowing you, aha!, Meltdown, NSFT Cuts, NSFT Incompetence, NSFT Masterclass, PR Crisis, Press, Questions for the Board, Toxic Trust
The Times: Abuse inquiry: Norfolk and Waveney STP Chair Patricia Hewitt led group that backed Paedophile Information Exchange

Sean O’Neill of The Times reports: The former Labour cabinet minister Patricia Hewitt must accept responsibility for the “foolish and misguided support” given to a paedophile campaign by a leading […]
Car Crash, Dangerous, Kept in the dark, Knowing me, knowing you, aha!, Press, Revolving Doors
NHS Staff Survey 2019 exposes the lie that NSFT is ‘clinically-led’

The NHS Staff Survey 2019 was released this month. The Board of Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) has claimed repeatedly that the mental health trust is ‘clinically-led’. The […]
Car Crash, CQC Inspection, Dangerous, Fantasy Island, Fixed Flawed Farce, Knowing me, knowing you, aha!, Meltdown, NSFT Cuts, NSFT Incompetence, NSFT Masterclass, Questions for the Board, Radical Restructure, Recruitment Crisis, Revolving Doors, Special Measures, Stitch-up, Survey, Toxic Trust
The Thick of NSFT Comms: Digital Communications Manager, Band 7 AFC

Help toxic and failed mental health trust, Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT), ‘get away with it (again)‘ for £43,000 per annum in this Band 7 nonjob as Digital […]
Car Crash, In NSFT's words, Knowing me, knowing you, aha!, NSFT Incompetence, NSFT Masterclass, PR Crisis, Revolving Doors, Toxic Trust
EADT: ‘Our NHS staff deserve better’, watchdog warns over poor survey results

In a Special Report, Emily Townsend of the East Anglian Daily Times reports: More NHS staff in Suffolk look forward to going to work – but rising numbers of workers […]
Campaigning, Car Crash, CQC Inspection, Dangerous, Hatchet man, Knowing me, knowing you, aha!, Meltdown, NSFT Incompetence, NSFT Masterclass, PR Crisis, Press, Questions for the Board, Radical Restructure, Revolving Doors, Special Measures, Stitch-up, Toxic Trust
EDP: Young people face five month waiting lists for mental health support

Jessica Frank-Keyes of the Eastern Daily Press reports: Children and young people with mental health issues are waiting up to five months for treatment in parts of Norfolk and Suffolk. […]
CAMHS Crisis, Community Crisis, CQC Inspection, Dangerous, Knowing me, knowing you, aha!, Meltdown, NSFT Cuts, NSFT Incompetence, NSFT Masterclass, Press, Questions for the Board, Radical Restructure, Revolving Doors, Sham Consultation, Special Measures, Stitch-up, STP
EADT: Mum of university student Henry fears more deaths at troubled mental health trust

Emily Townsend of the East Anglian Daily Times reports: The mother of a 21-year-old fashion student who killed himself after being released from a mental health hospital is “astonished” that […]
Bed Crisis, CAMHS Crisis, Car Crash, Community Crisis, CQC Inspection, Dangerous, Deaths Crisis, NSFT - A Warning from History, NSFT Cuts, NSFT Incompetence, Press, Special Measures, Stitch-up
EDP: ‘Got away with it’ – NHS manager gloated about coverage of dead great-grandmother

Tom Bristow of the Eastern Daily Press reports: An NHS manager bragged that the service had “got away” with its failings being highlighted after the death of two dementia sufferers […]
Bed Crisis, Campaigning, Car Crash, Community Crisis, CQC Inspection, Dangerous, Deaths Crisis, Fixed Flawed Farce, Knowing me, knowing you, aha!, Meltdown, No More Daves, NSFT Cuts, NSFT Incompetence, NSFT Masterclass, PR Crisis, Press, Questions for the Board, Radical Restructure, Stitch-up
A Stitch-up is not Safe: Improvement doesn’t look like this

We’ve known the intended result of the inspection of Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) since before Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspected the worst mental health trust in the […]
Bed Crisis, Community Crisis, CQC Inspection, Crisis Team Crisis, Dangerous, Deaths Crisis, Fixed Flawed Farce, Knowing me, knowing you, aha!, Meltdown, NSFT Cuts, NSFT Incompetence, Stitch-up
EDP: 81-year-old gran should not have had to die on the roadside on M11

Daniel Moxon and Clarissa Place of the Eastern Daily Press report: The family of an 81-year-old have told of their anger that she faced the indignity of dying on a […]
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EADT: Special Report: One year on from mental health trust’s damning review – what’s changed?

Emily Townsend of the East Anglian Daily Times reports: Today marks a year since the Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust (NSFT) was rated ‘inadequate’ for the third time in a […]
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EDP: Revealed: People waiting more than a DAY for emergency mental health treatment

Emily Townsend reports: Patients in mental health crisis are still waiting more than four hours to be seen in an emergency – with the longest delays going beyond an entire […]
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The Guardian: Hundreds of mental health beds needed to end ‘shameful’ out-of-area care

Cuts in mental health beds have gone too far, leading to the “shameful practice” of patients being sent hundreds of miles from home to be treated, according to psychiatrists. The […]
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A Stitch-up is not Safe: Campaign writes to Care Quality Commission regarding NSFT inspection

Today, we have written to Care Quality Commission (CQC) expressing our concerns about the inspection currently underway at Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT), echoing the views of many […]
Bed Crisis, CAMHS Crisis, Campaigning, Community Crisis, CQC Inspection, Crisis Team Crisis, Dangerous, Deaths Crisis, Fixed Flawed Farce, Knowing me, knowing you, aha!, Meltdown, NSFT Cuts, NSFT Incompetence, PR Crisis, Recruitment Crisis, Special Measures, STP
EDP: ‘It destroys lives’ – Teen’s dismay at 18-month mental health delay

Tom Bristow of the Eastern Daily Press reports: It is a year since inspectors slammed the region’s mental health service for making patients wait too long for help. This week […]
CAMHS Crisis, Campaigning, Car Crash, Community Crisis, CQC Inspection, Crisis Team Crisis, Dangerous, Deaths Crisis, Friends, Meltdown, Norman Lamb, NSFT Cuts, NSFT Incompetence, Press, Questions for the Board, Radical Restructure, Recruitment Crisis, Revolving Doors, Special Measures
Beds Crisis: Chief Operating Officer Stuart Richardson’s paper to the Board vs The Truth in a Graph

This is Stuart Richardson’s paper on the beds crisis and the transportation of people which he is presenting as Chief Operating Officer of Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) […]
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Campaign Translation: New Deputy COO joins our Trust

New Deputy COO joins our Trust **** Old TSSer rejoins our trust F***! Our new Deputy Chief Operating Officer has spoken of her excitement at returning to the Trust and […]
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Reaction to the management ‘radical restructure’ and return of Amy Eagle as Deputy Chief Operating Officer of NSFT

Here is just some of the feedback we have received: Closing services, discharging SUs, cutting care, death rate rises. Recognise it? Radical redesign in case you’ve forgotten. Carers and SUs […]
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Video: Amy Eagle’s contribution to NSFT’s corporate video for the first CQC inspection vs BBC coverage of Alexander Report

Compare what the new deputy Chief Operating Officer (COO) at Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT), Amy Eagle, said in NSFT’s corporate videos for the first Care Quality Commission […]
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Newsnight investigation of NSFT’s mortality review also reveals editing out of leadership criticism, continuation of cover up culture and culture of fear. Statement from Authors of Forever Gone.

On 30th August 2023, an investigation into the NSFT mortality review by Nikki Fox and BBC Newsnight aired on BBC. You can find the BBC iplayer link here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001q1s7/newsnight-brexit-border-checks-delayed-again Nikki […]
Dangerous, Deaths Crisis, Questions for the Board, Revolving Doors, Sham Consultation, Stitch-up, Toxic Trust
Statement on the Mortality Review

The recent appalling revelations in the Mortality Review at the Norfolk andSuffolk Foundation Trust, our local mental health “provider”, have shocked this campaign to its core. To see the stark headlines […]
Community Crisis, Deaths Crisis, NSFT - A Warning from History, NSFT Incompetence, Questions for the Board
Marches for Mental Health; 8th & 9th October

To mark World Mental Health Day our campaign is organising two marches for mental health. The marches will demand decent and high-quality services in both counties. If you care about mental […]
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Too Many Deaths: Public Inquiry Now!

Following our meeting with MPs and the Minister for Mental Health (Gillian Keegan) we are keeping up the pressure for action at NSFT. Politicians are focussed on a leadership contest […]
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Something Must Change: Our press release about terrible CQC report.

Press Release The Campaign to Save Mental Health Services in Norfolk and Suffolk welcome’s the decision by the CQC to give NSFT an overall quality rating of inadequate. Patients, service users, NSFT […]
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Campaigners Slam Bed Plans for Failing Mental Health Trust

We are frustrated that NSFT CEO Stuart Richardson revealed a cut in the number of beds planned for the £45m Hellesdon hospital revamp. Bed shortages have been a constant sore […]
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Here we go again… New CEO at NSFT gets off to a poor start with campaigners.

It is with regret that we have to report that the campaign’s relationship with the new CEO of NSFT looks like it’s breaking down. Before we have even met him. […]
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Submissions needed for Parliamentary Inquiry into adult social care funding

Dear supporter of the Campaign for Mental Health Services in North Norfolk,It has been brought to our attention that a Parliamentary Inquiry into the long-term funding of adult social care […]
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