EDP Data shows mental health trust has cut doctors and nurses – but chief disputes the figures

Geraldine Scott of the Eastern Daily Press reports: New data has revealed the number of doctors at the region’s mental health trust has shrunk over the last five years – whilst the number of managers has risen. Figures from the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) showed in July 2017 there were 20.3pc fewer […]

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Campaign statement on NHS Digital payroll data showing 52.7 increase in managers as more than twenty per cent of doctor and qualified nurses cut at NSFT over past five years

A spokesperson for the Campaign to Save Mental Health Services in Norfolk and Suffolk said: “Since 2013, we have repeatedly warned about the increasing number of managers employed at NSFT as mental health services have been savagely cut and the number of unexpected deaths has doubled. But the NHS payroll information is worse than we

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The Guardian: Number of mental health nurses falls 10%

Denis Campbell of The Guardian reports: The number of specialist mental health nurses has fallen more than 10% over the past five years, the Guardian has learned, putting the care of rising numbers of patients at risk. The loss of one in 10 of the entire mental health nursing workforce in England has occurred mainly

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The Guardian: Rise in Mental Health Act detentions shows ‘services struggling to cope’

Aisha Gani and James Meikle of The Guardian report: Official figures say detentions under the Act have risen nearly 10% in a year, causing concern among charities that services are failing to act early. Mental health campaigners have expressed concern that detentions under the Mental Health Act have risen by almost 10% in England in

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Couldn’t Run a Bath: Lorenzo Part VII ‘Current status: Awaiting a final resolution to the access issue’

Wednesday 20 May 2015 17:24 We are in hourly contact with HSCIC and other third parties to resolve the current access issues. The issues are very complicated as there are multiple variables which when amended could impact other areas, unfortunately there isn’t an easy fix. In the last hour we have agreed an approach which

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Couldn’t Run a Bath: Lorenzo Part VI ‘Please try to log-in’

Wednesday 20 May 2015 08:22 We are still awaiting a final resolution to the access issue for Lorenzo. HSCIC are continuing to work on the issue as a priority. So far over 1,000 unique users have managed to log-in and use Lorenzo. We have a fix for users who are only able access one tab

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Couldn’t Run a Bath: Lorenzo Part V ‘Access issue explained’

Tuesday 19 May 2015 17:03 As we are still trying to resolve the Smartcard access issue, I felt it would be useful to give you some more detail to help explain the situation we are dealing with. As you know, in order to access Lorenzo you need a Smartcard which all have specific ‘positions’ assigned

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Couldn’t Run a Bath: Lorenzo Part IV ‘Please try to log-in’

Tuesday 19 May 2015 08:42 We are still awaiting a final solution to the access issue for Lorenzo. HSCIC have a completed a first fix which will unlock the initial problem for around 1,500 staff, however, there may be a second piece of work that the programme team will need to complete before staff can

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Couldn’t Run a Bath: Lorenzo Part III ‘Resolving Access Issues’

Monday 18 May 2015 16:02 We are still awaiting a resolution to the access issue for Lorenzo, however, HSCIC are making progress; they have analysed the data and are now working on a fix. We will get in touch with staff to test the fix once it’s been confirmed. Please continue to use MH CareNotes

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Couldn’t Run a Bath: Lorenzo Part II ‘Resolving Access Issues’

Monday 18 May 2015 14:24 As you may be aware, some staff have not been able to access Lorenzo this morning following ‘go-live’; this is a direct result of a failure in the HSCIC system for allocating access rights – the National Care Identity Service. The programme became aware of the issue over the weekend

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