EDP: Mental health trust under fire again after second man falls to his death at the Castle Mall

One of our key recommendations for ending the crisis in mental health services at Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) is the restoration of decent mental health services for the most vulnerable. The specialist assertive outreach teams which national guidance and evidence recommends have not just been cut but rather completely closed, leaving those […]

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New NSFT CEO Michael Scott visiting Crisis Team: But Crisis Team told not to talk to him

How is Michael Scott, the new Chief Executive at Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust, going to sort out the crisis team crisis if staff receive emails like this before they meet him? Dear All, Just to let you know…… I found out yesterday that the new Chief Exec will be attending our MDT meeting

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Wonderful news: NSFT Operations Director Kathy Chapman PROMOTED!

It was perhaps inevitable, after working as the architect of the radical redesign at Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) which has truly transformed mental health services in Norfolk and Suffolk, that Kathy Chapman would attract attention on a national level. Chapman’s innovative approach to designing mental health services brought local and national news

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Why the CQC selected NSFT for early inspection in its own words: Decision to schedule Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust for Inspection

We wrote to the Care Quality Commission (CQC) because Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) has been claiming that the forthcoming CQC inspection is routine/random and that the Campaign to Save Mental Health Services in Norfolk & Suffolk was being inaccurate and misleading to write that NSFT had been selected as a priority for early

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Sister campaigns: itv NEWS Anglia – Health campaigners win fight over Lifeworks closure plans

Congratulations to all those involved in saving Lifeworks in Cambridge. We should have posted this sooner. Click on the image to visit the itv website and watch the video. Warning: this video contains potentially distressing images of Aidan Thomas, former chief executive of Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) and initiator of the massive

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Lara Norris: Tick Box – Cardboard Box – Soap Box

  The following is reproduced from the blog of Lara Norris, a campaign supporter and prospective parliamentary candidate for Great Yarmouth, with her kind permission: “This week I want to tell you the story of Holly (not her real name) and why she illustrates how people have ceased to be at the centre of our

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