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
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 eleventh day of Christmas, the cuts took away… a fit for purpose drugs and alcohol service
We have been contacted by a number of people who have concerns about the level of support available from drug and alcohol services, run by Norfolk Recovery Partnership (NRP) since April 2013. These are the views of “Matt & Tina”, two users of the services provided by NRP: “We are currently being asked to give feedback
On the fifth day of Christmas, the cuts took away… access to the only available treatment
This is the story ‘Sally’ wanted us to tell: There has been a lot of press coverage about the lack of beds, but this usually refers to beds needed in a crisis or following a Mental Health Act assessment. My colleagues and I in community teams have been dealing with another, almost hidden, consequence of
BBC Radio Suffolk: 12 Cuts of Christmas campaign is lead news story
We’ve spoken to the Trust, to clinical commissioning groups, to Norman Lamb. They all blame each other and say the situation isn’t their responsibility… meanwhile people who use our services and staff are caught in the middle and bearing the brunt Listen on the hour on BBC Suffolk. Read about stories from our 12 Cuts
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EADT: Suffolk: Mental health boss rejects crisis claims (again)
NSFT director Graham Creelman said ‘this is a developing national crisis in mental health’ at the NSFT Board meeting in Bury St Edmunds lobbied by this campaign this month. Now, Gary Page again claims this isn’t a crisis but ‘unforeseen problems.’ However. front-line staff have been warning about these ‘unforeseen problems’ for more than a
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On the third day of Christmas… NSFT threatens rural services through low pay
My name is “Sarah”. I’m a band 3 community support worker. I love my job. But I can barely afford to come to work, and fear I may have to give up my job supporting service users in a predominantly rural area. I can’t see how anyone could afford to do the job that NSFT
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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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On the first day of Christmas, NSFT took away… my care co-ordinator
Here is the story ‘Emily’ wanted us to tell: “Before the cuts, I had four amazing care co-ordinators over ten years. They had the chance to get to know me, both when I was struggling but also when I was well. This meant they could push me to recover, taught me how to laugh and
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EADT: Suffolk: Bosses claim mental health services are heading towards a “national crisis”
At first, according to Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT), it was a radical improvement to services and certainly not cuts to the front-line. Then, said NSFT, it wasn’t a crisis. Then, as recently as last week, Gary Page said it was a ‘so-called crisis’. Now, NSFT acknowledges there is a crisis but it
Community Care: NSFT cuts CRHT budget by 7.1% and community teams by 6.4%
This year’s budget for community teams at NSFT is more than two million pounds lower than last year – a cut of 6.4% The NSFT community teams’ budget is being cut by £2,128,962 this year Staffing of community teams has been reduced by more than thirty already this year – with more ‘voluntary redundancy’ staff
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