“I came! I saw! I turned around!”
The Director of Corporate Affairs and Communications of the worst-run mental health trust in the NHS, Rebecca Driver, only appointed just before Christmas, demonstrates her commitment to mental health, her faith in Antek Lejk and her loyalty to NSFT by quitting in the New Year.
Let’s bet there are pay rises involved!
@MelanieCraigNHS @SouthNorfolkCCG @NorthNorfolkCCG @NHSWSCCG @IESCCG @BCG The Norfolk and Waveney CCG bureaucrats starved mental health of resources for years whilst giving themselves enormous pay rises. Failed to supervise failed @NSFTtweets. No genuine clinical input from secondary care. Mental health plans are a joke. See rfolksuffolkmentalhealthcrisi…
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 […]
Some people have said that they find it difficult to join us at our regular monthly meeting in the evening on the first Tuesday of the month. Often, we need […]
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 […]
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 […]
Emily Townsend of the East Anglian Daily Times reports: A coroner has questioned online drug sales after a “bubbly” 22-year-old from Suffolk managed to purchase a huge quantity of tablets […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Donna-Louise Bishop of the Eastern Daily Press reports: Campaigners for better mental health provisions say more needs to be done to protect the regions’s most vulnerable patients from being sent […]
She came. She saw. She fled.
Hopefully there’ll be a FOI request to discover the obscene amount that this cost NSFT to try to defend the indefensible.
So, in post for four weeks not counting any annual leave she took over Christmas and the New Year…did she hand in her notice after the interview results, or on her first day.????
Constant reshuffling at the top, recycling mediocrity and the people who cause chaos and uncertainty. New strategy documents abound, but frightening lack of stability for the people with health and social care continuing needs – all under the guise of quality improvement.