Excerpts from CQC Report & EDP: Urgent action needed after inspection finds Hellesdon Hospital is failing patients

The full CQC report can be downloaded as a pdf. Some excerpts, which can be summarised as: lack of community staff, lack of beds and organisational chaos. If this is the situation now, what will it be like at the end of March when more than one quarter of community team staff will have been […]

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Help us set important rather than superficial targets – NSFT Quality Matters Survey closes 14th February

We are inviting all of our supporters to complete the NSFT Quality Matters Survey so that important rather than superficial quality issues are addressed by the NSFT Board in the forthcoming year. The survey ends on Friday 14 February so there are only a couple of days to complete it. It is very quick. Find

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

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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Audio: Extremely powerful interview of Emma Corlett of Unison and Campaign on BBC Norfolk Breakfast Show

This powerful and in-depth interview was on early this morning but should be compulsory listening for all those concerned about mental healthcare in Norfolk & Suffolk:     It is astonishing and illuminating that Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT), with more than one thousand administrators, a large in-house Comms Team and a Board

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Audio: Campaign spokesperson and clinical psychologist, Ruth Turner, is lead interview on BBC Radio Norfolk Breakfast Show

As well as Ruth’s excellent interview, Emma Corlett from Unison and a service user on the telephone from the Norvic Clinic raise their safety concerns as part of the main news item which also features Norman Lamb, Care Minister and local MP, appearing to publicly back the concerns raised by the Campaign and staff!    

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Audio: Sheila Preston, carer, interviewed on BBC Radio Norfolk Breakfast Show

Sheila Preston tells the BBC what it is like to be the carer of a son with schizophrenia reliant upon Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) and supports both the Campaign and staff unions. Please tell others about this important interview and encourage them to listen to it.     It is astonishing and

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Audio: Emma Corlett interviewed on BBC Radio Suffolk

Campaign member and Unison media spokesperson Emma Corlett interviewed on BBC Radio Suffolk about Unison’s decision to raise a formal grievance and ask Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) to call an immediate halt to the ‘radical redesign’ ‘No response’ from NSFT.

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EDP Front Page: Mental Health Crisis deepens

Crisis: What crisis? 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 trust. Care of vulnerable Norfolk adults with mental health problems suffered a fresh blow after the plug was pulled

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

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

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

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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Bury Mercury: NSFT vacancies at Woodlands, Ipswich Hospital, Walker Close, Ipswich, Airey Close, Oulton Broad

Yet again, you couldn’t make this up. While NSFT plans to spend £7.3 million on redundancies, it is running expensive press advertisements desperately trying to recruit temporary staff via NHS Professionals. Thanks to the editor of Mumsnet Suffolk who spotted this press advertisement and sent it to us after seeing our earlier article about the central

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Silent Protest at Suffolk County Council Health Scrutiny Committee, Endeavour House, Ipswich: 22nd January 2014

Suffolk County Council Health Scrutiny Committee is taking place on Wednesday 22 January at Suffolk County Council at 10 a.m. Health Service issues will be discussed, including the crisis in Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation Trust (NSFT). We are holding a silent protest outside Endeavour House from 9.15 a.m. to around 9.45 a.m. Thanks to Jane Basham

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Norwich Free Advertiser: NSFT vacancies at Norvic Clinic, Thorpe St Andrew, Hammerton Court, Norwich and the Fermoy Unit, King’s Lynn

You couldn’t make this up. While NSFT plans to spend £7.3 million on redundancies, it is running expensive press advertisements desperately trying to recruit temporary staff via NHS Professionals. Thanks to the campaign supporter who spotted this press advertisement and sent it to us. Let us know if you see any more – is NSFT

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