Geraldine Scott of the Eastern Daily Press reports: A crisis hub pegged to help stem the number of mental health patients sent miles away due to a lack of beds has been delayed by a year in part due to debates over the building it will be in. A wellbeing hub – also known as […]
A spokesperson for the Campaign to Save Mental Health Services in Norfolk and Suffolk said: “It is scandalous that, despite many promises to stop the transportation of people in mental health crisis many miles away from families, friends and professionals they know, the situation has become much worse.” “The inhumanity of transporting people, of all
Emily Townsend of the East Anglian Daily Times reports: The situation facing Suffolk and Norfolk’s struggling mental health trust has been dubbed “scandalous” after it emerged patients in crisis are still being sent hundreds of miles away for treatment. Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust (NSFT) has pledged to end out of area placements (OAPs) by
Geraldine Scott of the Eastern Daily Press reports: A cross-party group of MPs have demanded the “chaos and confusion must end” over the region’s failing mental health care provision. Seven MPs from Norfolk and Suffolk, representing the Conservatives, Labour, and the Liberal Democrats, have written to regulator NHS Improvement (NHSI) to slam the “unacceptable drift”
NSFT Comms writes: Our Head of Recovery and Participation is to take up a new role to drive through urgent operational matters while making the case for reintroducing primary care link workers across Norfolk and Waveney. There is no employee better placed than [CENSORED FOLLOWING PREVIOUS LEGAL THREATS FROM NSFT] to make the case for
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“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
We wrote to: Matthew Hancock, Secretary of State at the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and MP for West Suffolk Dido Harding, Chair, NHS Improvement (NHSI) Ian Dalton, Chief Executive, NHS Improvement (NHSI) Dale Bywater, Executive Regional Managing Director (Midlands and East), NHS Improvement (NHSI) Paul Watson, regional director at responsible for the
Antek Lejk, the disastrous appointment as Chief Executive of Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) has written an email to all staff. I am writing to bring you up-to-date with the progress we have been making since our CQC inspection results were published, with particular focus on the work which has taken place over
Nic Rigby of the BBC reports: More than 80% of people are dissatisfied with mental health services for adults in Norfolk and Waveney, a report has found. The survey, by the Norfolk and Waveney Sustainability and Transformation Partnership (STP), said 40% did not know how to access services at all. A patients group criticised the
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Norfolk and Waveney’s so-called STP is holding consultations across Norfolk with a view to creating a ten year strategy for mental health. The STP bureaucrats are talking about a Stalinist ten-year plan when mental health services are in crisis NOW. Of course, the bureaucrats will be long gone before the ten years are up, with
In investigative reporting that is worthy of a national journalism award, Jessica Frank-Keyes of the Eastern Daily Press writes: Grieving parents and a retired GP say “remote, awful and inhumane” mental health support is leaving young men in north Norfolk at a heightened risk of taking their own lives. In recent months two young men
Directors of Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) are saying that they believe that the mental health trust has failed its recent inspection by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), even before the report is published. This would be the third inspection failure by the mental health trust for Norfolk and Suffolk. The situation is
Antek Lejk, the Chief Executive of Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT), who was imposed despite service users and carers finding him unappointable, has decided to go on holiday while health professionals from the Care Quality Commission (CQC) have congregated from across the country to inspect services at the failing mental health trust. We
Robert Nesbitt retires as ‘Company Secretary’ at Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) this week on a fine salary and pension. In many ways, the career of Robert Nesbitt exemplifies all that has gone wrong at NSFT. Before the merger which created NSFT, Robert Nesbitt was ‘Director of Community Engagement’ at Suffolk Mental Health
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The BBC today reported: The government has incurred a loss of £2.1bn after selling another tranche of shares in Royal Bank of Scotland. The shares were sold at 271p each, almost half the 502p a share paid in the government’s bailout of RBS a decade ago when it rescued the bank at the height of
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A spokesperson for the Campaign to Save Mental Health Services said: Last week, we ran a sentence or two about bullying and abuse at NSFT in our chronology outlining the role of the new Chief Executive of Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust, Antek Lejk, in the out-of-hours deaths scandal. In a sadly typical example
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Geraldine Scott of the Eastern Daily Press reports: A damning review into the leadership at the region’s mental health trust has identified a “tolerance of poor standards”, it can be revealed. We’ve been saying this since 2013. NHS Improvement, the national body which oversees health trusts, ordered the report into Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust
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The Chair of Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT), Gary Page, has been claiming that the role of Antek Lejk in the out-of-hours scandal at NHS Cornwall was peripheral. However, we have spoken to clinicians and campaigners in Cornwall who have told us that Antek Lejk was central and a driving force of what
Geraldine Scott of the Eastern Daily Press reports: The new boss of the region’s mental health trust has expressed his disappointment after it was revealed service users and carers gave him low scores during the interview process. The scores weren’t just low. The large and heterogeneous service user and carer appointment panel came to the
