Live Tweets record of Great Yarmouth & Waveney CCG & NSFT Public ‘Consultation’

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Find below a record of our live Twitter coverage of the Great Yarmouth & Waveney CCG and Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) public ‘consultation.’ We distributed about 100 copies of an open letter written by NSFT nurses in Norwich caring for people from Great Yarmouth & Waveney which exposes this ‘consultation’ as a sham. […]

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Video: Carer, Sheila Preston, and an anonymous service user interviewed by BBC Look East

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If you use an Apple product and have problems viewing the video below, click here to view on youtube. There are, of course, the usual Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust denials and excuses too – this time from acting NSFT Chief Executive Andrew Hopkins. Strange, isn’t it, that there was no acknowledgement of problems with

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Campaign’s response to the consultation launched on NSFT’s astonishing proposal to cut another 25 beds in Great Yarmouth and Waveney

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Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) proposes to reduce by a further seventeen the number of beds for older people with dementia or psychiatric conditions and another eight acute adult psychiatric beds will also go – a net loss of twenty five beds. This is an unforgivable proposal when there is already a bed

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Email: How Andrew Hopkins and Kathy Chapman tried to spin the news that NSFT has lost the £4 million Section 75 contract with Norfolk County Council

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Dear Colleagues, Norfolk Council’s Cabinet has today (Monday, 27 January) agreed that the social care mental health service for adults of working age should return to their direct management after the end of the current section 75 partnership agreement with the Trust ends later this year. Their aim for the new arrangement is to deliver

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BBC: Norfolk County Council takes back social care from trust (NSFT)

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Crisis: What crisis? Norfolk County Council is to take responsibility for the service back from Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust from September. A council meeting in November heard concerns over its poor performance. A spokesman for the Campaign to Save Mental Health Services in Norfolk and Suffolk said: “It is very disappointing but sadly

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EDP: Shock Norfolk social care shake-up after serious concerns raised

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This is a £4.3 million per annum contract lost for Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust  (NSFT) by the top-notch Executive Team: Serious concerns that social care for adults with mental health issues in Norfolk is not good enough has led to the county council taking responsibility for the service away from the mental health

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

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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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Audio: Campaign supporter Jane Basham & NSFT Suffolk Director of Operations Debbie White interviewed on BBC Radio Suffolk

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From the complacent way Debbie White is talking, you’d never guess that Healthwatch Suffolk had issued a damning report to Suffolk County Council Health Scrutiny Committee that same morning, would you?  

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EDP: Is Nick Clegg’s action plan a solution to the challenges facing mental health services in Norfolk and Suffolk?

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Terry Skyrme, who works for the mental health crisis solution team in Norfolk, is one of the leading campaigners against the cuts and said it was like they were going around and around in circles. “Nobody is grasping the nettle. The Trust have managed the change really badly, but at the end of the day

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

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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

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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

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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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EADT: Mental health campaigners hit back over cuts (and NSFT insults Campaign again)

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Emma Corlett says: “The whole point of the campaign was that people were brave enough to come forward and talk about their experiences. So for someone to come forward and say it is not true is quite offensive. We are keen for them [NSFT] to engage with the campaign and hear from people the reality

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Campaign sets the agenda as Gary Page, NSFT Chair, emails all Trust staff

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Gary Page, NSFT Chair, emailed all NSFT staff on 10th January 2014: “Dear Colleagues, As the first working week of the New Year ends, I wanted to share with you my reflections on last year and hopes for 2014. I know 2013 was difficult for many staff and the Trust overall.  Implementation of the Service

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Lobby of lead commissioners for mental health in Norfolk – North Norfolk CCG – Tuesday 21 January 2014

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You can download the original leaflet in pdf format to print or distribute. MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ARE IN SEVERE CRISIS: cuts to psychiatric beds, so that patients are being admitted hundreds of miles away from home staff cuts to community and crisis teams, so that patients in the community are not receiving the care they need key

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On the twelfth day of Christmas, the cuts took away… health & safety

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‘Sarah’ tell us her experiences: I have worked for the NHS for over 30 years and have been a union health and safety representative for almost as long. My role is to try to ensure that Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) is a safe and secure place for everyone who works and receives

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On the ninth day of Christmas, the cuts took away… decent food

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‘Maggie’ writes: “What a great start to the New Year! Cost cutting will, without fanfare, remove freshly-cooked food from the wards and take away the opportunity for patients, staff and relatives to buy a hot meal at Hellesdon Hospital in Norwich by shutting the canteen this month. It is being ‘replaced’ by ‘airline meals’ and

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