Sham Consultation: Last chance to pillory the NSFT Board – Tuesday 25/3/2014 – Beccles

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Please, please do attend the sham consultation in Beccles on Tuesday 25th March 2014 between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. The acting Chief Executive, Medical Director and Operations Director of Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) are being forced to publicly account for their ‘radical redesign’ for the last time by Great Yarmouth & Waveney […]

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BBC: Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Trust spends £1.2m at consultant’s hospital

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Jon Welch of the BBC reports: “A mental health trust planning to close beds has spent more than £1m sending patients to a private hospital linked to one of its senior consultants. Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust spent almost £1.2m in 2013 with Milestones at Salhouse, near Norwich. Milestones’ medical director Dr Julian Beezhold

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12th Day of Lent: Going without safe staffing of hostels

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‘Still a nurse’ writes: “One hostel of 4 beds is already closed, and the staff have all been redeployed to other wards. 9 beds remain but staffed from the CRHT so no longer in the same function it was before. And this was no redesign, just the shambles of counting staff in numbers of other

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Response from North Norfolk CCG to AMHP letter highlighting bed crisis at NSFT

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See the letter below which states that North Norfolk CCG will not accept the closure of any more acute adult beds, including the hostels, until people placed out of county are returned and there is no likelihood of out of area placement reoccurring. This reply can be downloaded as a pdf also. You can read

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10th Day of Lent: Going without services which have saved my life

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Victoria writes: “In 2003 I had a breakdown. My Mother had to take me to my GP’s surgery, as he refused a home visit. As I paced up & down the receptionist appeared & asked me to go into a private room as “I was upsetting” other patients. It took 3 days of hell before

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Letter from Approved Mental Health Practitioners (AMHPs) of Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) to North Norfolk CCG

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The recipients of this letter were North Norfolk Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) with copies to Great Yarmouth & Waveney CCG (Healtheast), Norwich CCG, Norman Lamb – Minister of State for Care and Support and MP for North Norfolk, Harold Bodmer – Director of Adult Care Social Services at Norfolk County Council and the Care Quality Commission

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Audio: Recording of sham consultation public meeting on NSFT bed closures in Lowestoft on 13th February 2014

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If you at all interested in the crisis in mental health in Norfolk and Suffolk, this is an essential recording. Listen to the Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) executives directly challenged by service users, carers, staff and members of the public, many of them members of this campaign. Congratulations to Great Yarmouth &

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Campaign governors needed at NSFT

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The governing body of the Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) has failed to properly scrutinise the non-executive directors of the Trust and does not reflect the opinions of the majority of its stakeholders. This failure of corporate governance is an important factor in the worsening crisis in mental health services in Norfolk and

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EDP: Mental health trust says improvements have already been made after critical Hellesdon Hospital inspection

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After the publication of a highly critical report from the Care Quality Commission (CQC), the Director of Nursing, Quality & Patient Safety of Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) is now claiming that NSFT has ‘taken urgent steps’ to put the problems right. The Director of Nursing claims that ‘We have already taken steps to recruit

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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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Open Letter from NSFT Nurses in Norwich caring for those from Great Yarmouth & Waveney right now

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You can download a pdf version of the this letter to print and distribute. OPEN LETTER FROM NSFT NURSES IN NORWICH CARING FOR THOSE FROM GREAT YARMOUTH & WAVENEY CCG RIGHT NOW The consultation on the proposal put forward by the Great Yarmouth & Waveney Clinical Commissioning Group and Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust

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Updated: Thursday 13th February: Urgent call to attend public consultation meeting on loss of ANOTHER 25 beds at NSFT

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Next week, there is a unique and valuable opportunity for us to question and confront the Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) Board members, management and local commissioners over the decision to close another 25 beds and the on-going cuts and chaos. We want to overwhelm the Trust and the commissioners not only 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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On the eighth day of Christmas, the cuts took away… Early Intervention (EI) in psychosis services

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Here ‘Mary’ and ‘Jo’ tell their story of the ‘radical redesign’: “We have worked in Early Intervention (EI) in psychosis for nearly twenty years between us. EI is our passion, it has a strong evidence base and it is the service that all have a right to, regardless of where they live. Early Intervention in

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On the sixth day of Christmas, NSFT took away… dignity in old age

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Here’s the story ‘Harold’ wanted us to tell: “Our Trust has already closed dementia and complexity in later life beds.  The idea appears sound: dementia intensive support teams will support people in their homes. Now that is all well and good for those who can be supported at home but sometimes it just isn’t possible

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