Damning Report on NSFT from Healthwatch Suffolk

Service User views on NSFT Services between April 2013 and January 2014: Preliminary Report to Suffolk Health Scrutiny Committee, January 2014 [The report is reproduced here without amendment apart from the highlighting in red of key phrases by us.] 1. Summary This paper summarises views expressed to Healthwatch Suffolk (HWS) by NSFT service users from […]

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Ipswich Spy: Silent protest greets mental health cuts

Jane Basham, Labour Parliamentary Candidate for South Suffolk, organised yesterday’s protest, and spoke with Ipswich Spy afterwards. “I attended most of the Health Scrutiny meeting today. Despite a damning report by HealthWatch Suffolk and a host of challenging questions by Health Scrutiny Councillors the Directors of NSFT stuck to their guns – there is no

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EADT Suffolk: University students in region could help fill vacancies in mental health service

Mental health chiefs in Suffolk will look to university students in the region in a recruitment drive aimed at reducing the high number of vacancies in the service. The admission came from representatives of the Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) during a meeting of the county council’s health scrutiny committee yesterday. They said

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EDP: Mental health trust for Norfolk and Suffolk could face financial penalties over poor performance

  Terry Skyrme, mental health worker and campaigner, asked the commissioners whether they were aware 13 pre-discharge beds at Hellesdon Hospital were about to close. “Have you been aware of the bed crisis for the last two years? The crisis is much, much worse with patients being sent to Harrogate, Brighton, Dorking and Weston-super-mare. It

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Financial scandal at NSFT: The Campaign to Save Mental Health Services in Norfolk & Suffolk exposes the truth

Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) will overspend on compulsory and voluntary redundancies by a staggering 52.1% this financial year. That means it has spent £2.5 million pounds more than it has in its budget on redundancies. £2.5 million is enough to pay for an additional ten hospital beds for two years or safely-staffed

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HOSC: What has gone wrong with the ‘radical redesign? at NSFT

The original pdf version can be downloaded here. A contribution to Norfolk County Council’s Health Overview & Scrutiny Committee from the Campaign to save Mental Health Services in Norfolk & Suffolk January 2014 “Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally” John Maynard Keynes, The General Theory

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Response to NSFT’s letter refuting the Campaign’s Open Letter of 25/11/13

The Trust responded to our Campaign’s Open Letter of 25/11/13 with a letter circulated to Trust Governors and partner organisations (but not us) which attempted to refute our contention that the service is in crisis, and alleging certain inaccuracies in our statement. It should be pointed out that not one member of front-line staff, service users

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On the second day of Christmas, NSFT took away… all my support

Here is the story ‘T’ wanted to tell, ‘Discharged without my involvement’: I’d been doing really well, and felt on a level for some time. The paranoia and voices never really went away, but with help of my Community Psychiatric Nurse (CPN) I’d got back on my feet. After hospital I stayed in a hostel,

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